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  Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Walter Turner Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, GCVO, KCMG, MC, PC (1891–1965) was a British politician.
Monckton was educated at Harrow School and Balliol College, Oxford.
Monckton was made Viscount Monckton of Brenchley in 1957.
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 Andrew Cusack: Major General Lord Monckton of Brenchley, 1915-2006
Maj-Gen the 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, who has died aged 90, was awarded an MC in 1940 and later became director of Army public relations at a time when the Armed Forces' public profile was growing in importance.
Gilbert Walter Riversdale Monckton was born on November 3 1915 at Ightham Mote, a manor house near Sevenoaks, Kent, where he and his sister used to chase guinea pigs around the garden with bows and arrows.
His father Walter, the 1st Viscount, was an adviser to King Edward VIII during the abdication crisis of 1936 and later a Conservative minister in the 1950s and 1960s.
www.andrewcusack.com /blog/2006/07/major_general_l.php   (1444 words)

  
 Royal secrets unearthed at Balliol - News - The Oxford Student - Official Student Newspaper
Monckton was a key figure in the abdication crisis and in the life of the Windsors after it.
A University spokesperson said, "the papers of Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, belong to Balliol College, where he was an undergraduate and of which he was an Honorary Fellow.
Lord Monckton was attorney -general to the Prince of Wales from 1932 to 1936 and to the Duchy of Cornwall from 1936 to 1951.
oxfordstudent.com /ht2000wk6/News/royal_secrets_unearthed_at_balliol   (589 words)

  
 Articles - Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
The Right Honourable Walter Turner Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, GCVO, KCMG, MC, PC (1891-1965) was a British politician.
He was chairman of Midland Bank (1957-64), President of the Marylebone Cricket Club (1956-57), Chairman of the Iraq Petroleum Company (1958), Chairman of the Advisory Commission on Central Africa (1960), and Chancellor of the University of Sussex (1961-65).
He was succeeded by Gilbert Walter Riversdale Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley on his death in 1965 at the age of 74.
www.worldhammock.com /articles/Walter_Monckton,_1st_Viscount_Monckton   (262 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Financier killed as he confronts burglars
The cousin of Rosa Monckton, a close friend of the late Princess Diana and wife of Dominic Lawson, the Sunday Telegraph editor, Mr Monckton came from a well-established Catholic family and was active in the Knights of Malta charity, which helps the poor.
Among his forebears was Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, confidant to Edward VIII during the abdication, who went on to serve in a Tory government as paymaster-general.
The viscount - born Walter Monckton - was the MP for Bristol West from 1951-57 and served in the ministries of defence and labour before becoming paymaster-general.
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 Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Defense Systems Ltd.: Crown Jewel
His father, 1st Viscount Walter Monckton, was a member of Winston Churchill's cabinet and chairman of Midland Bank.
The elder 1st Viscount led what was known as the ``Maidstone Set,'' one of the elite Tory cliques, named after his Maidstone estate.
The current Viscount Monckton's son, Christopher Monckton, was editor of the Daily Telegraph's Sunday Magazine, and the social affairs adviser to Margaret Thatcher.
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 thePeerage.com - nil and others
He is the son of Gilbert Walter Riversdale Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and Marianna Laetitia Bower.
She is the daughter of Gilbert Walter Riversdale Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and Marianna Laetitia Bower.
She is the daughter of Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton and Mary Adelaide Somes Colyer-Ferguson.
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 thePeerage.com - Mary Cavendish-Bentinck and others
     Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton was born on 17 January 1891.
He married Bridget Helen Hore-Ruthven, Baroness Ruthven, daughter of Walter Patrick Hore-Ruthven, 9th Baron Ruthven and Jean Leslie Lampson, on 13 August 1947.
Gilbert Walter Riversdale Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley+ b.
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 "M" Famous People
Mayr, Ernst (Walter) (1904-) Ornithologist and evolutionist, born in Kempten, Germany.
Milner, Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount (1854-1925) British statesman, born in Bonn, W Germany.
Monckton (of Brenchley), Walter Turner Monckton, 1st Viscount (1891-1965) Lawyer and statesman, born in Plaxtol, Kent, SE England, UK.
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 Libraries Staff Newsletter No. 19 09 March 2000
His papers were given to his old college in two sections, the first by Lady Monckton in 1971 and the second by his literary trustees in 1977.
Other papers, official files of Lord Monckton's in a succession of government offices, were closed in line with the Public Record Office's 30-year rule, and gradually released (with no media attention!) throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.
Lord Monckton's archive is only one of the very many collections of papers of politicians, writers, diplomats, scholars, churchmen, scientists and their families, which have been steadily accumulated by the Bodleian over decades and which place the library in the forefront of resources for the study of British society and government in the 20th century.
www.bodley.ox.ac.uk /boris/ulib-snl/news19.htm   (3171 words)

  
 AIM25: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London: ISMAY, Gen Hastings Lionel, 1st Baron Ismay of ...
ISMAY, Gen Hastings Lionel, 1st Baron Ismay of Wormington
The papers of Walter Turner Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley,also at the Bodleian Library, include correspondence with Ismay, 1947-1956 (Ref: Dep Monckton).
The papers of Col Charles William Garne Walker at the Rhodes House Library, Oxford University, contain correspondence with Ismay relating to East Africa, 1927-1935, (Ref: MSS Afr 57/7).
www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/21/524.htm   (563 words)

  
 The National Archives | Search the archives | National Register of Archives | Details
Addison, Christopher (1869-1951) 1st Viscount Addison, statesman (9)
Bertie, Francis Leveson (1844-1919) 1st Viscount Bertie of Thame (9)
Howard, Edmund Bernard Fitzalan- (1855-1947) 1st Viscount Fitzalan of Derwent (7)
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /nra/searches/pidocs.asp?LR=61   (3128 words)

  
 The National Archives | National Register of Archives | Browse the combined corporate and business indexes
Monckton, Walter Turner (1891-1965) 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (5)
Mond, Alfred Moritz (1868-1930) 1st Baron Melchett, industrialist and politician (6)
Montagu, Edward (1562-1644) 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton (3)
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /nra/browser/person/page/person_MO.htm   (2254 words)

  
 The drafting of the letters patent of 1937
Monckton, Walter, later Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (1891-1965), confidant of Edward VIII
Ram, Sir Granville (1885-1952) parliamentary counsel to the Treasury (in charge of drafting all government legislation), 1st counsel 1937-47.
I understand that some such letter was in fact sent about 27th May. The other documents within are - a letter of 24th May from Sir A. Monckton (E), a letter of 25 May from the AG about the drafting of the Patent (F), a draft submission to ??
www.heraldica.org /topics/britain/drafting_lp1937.htm   (7711 words)

  
 The Scotsman - UK - Financier killed as he confronts burglars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
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Police teams examine the crime scene in Upper Cheyne Row yesterday - burglary is the suspected motive.
So what do you do when your home is burgled?
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 Special Collections
, Walter Ernest (1911-1995), novelist and literary critic: additional literary papers comprising carbon typescript of novel, Blind Man's Ditch (published 1939) (Finding No: MS2/1/3) A catalogue of the whole collection (Finding No: MS2) is available on our Online Archive Catalogue
Letter to Beatrice Stella Campbell (1865-1940) nee Tanner, actress called Mrs.
Letters to Walter Turner Monckton (1891-1965) 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, 1952-1956 (AELAdd/33-36)
www.special-coll.bham.ac.uk /catalogue_AM_newacc2002_other.htm   (1476 words)

  
 Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry [UK]
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C (Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry), The Royal Yeomanry (RY site)
Gilbert Walter Riversdale (Monckton), 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, CB, OBE, MC, KJStJ
www.regiments.org /regiments/uk/volmil-england/vcav/kentKSY.htm   (449 words)

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