Papers of Yvonne Fitzroy, private secretary to the Marchioness of Reading, Vicereine of India 1921-26 1921-1939

Baby Week Movement (active 1921-1939)

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De Montmorency, Geoffrey Fitzhervey, Sir, active 1921-1939

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Sassoon, Elias Victor, 1881-1961

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Sir Ellice Victor Elias Sassoon, Bart., G.B.E. was born December 30, 1881 in Naples, Italy while his family was en route to India. He was raised in England where he attended Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge University. He was from a Baghdadi Jewish family who had made their fortune in the cotton industry in India and still had substantial holdings there. Sir Victor served in the Royal Flying Corps in World War I. He survived a plane crash in 1916 and sustained leg injuries that...

Edward VIII, 1894-1972, King of Great Britain and Ireland

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Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, 1883-1972, was born on 17 January 1883 at West Hartlepool, Yorkshire, England. He was educated at St Paul's School, London, England and at Magdalen College, Oxford, England where he received a second class honours degree in history in 1904 . He became a writer and published his first book of Poems in 1907. His first novel followed in 1911 and his most successful book Sinister Street was published in 1913 . He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1...

Isaacs, Alice Edith, active 1888-1939, Marchioness of Reading

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Title: Marchioness of Reading British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001244.0x000337 ...

Goschen, George Joachim Goschen, Viscount, 1866-1952

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1890-1892 private secretary to the Govenor of New South Wales; 1895-1906 Member of Parliament for East Grinstead; 1895-1900 assistant private secretary to the 1st lord of the Admiralty;1924-1929 Govenor of Madras; 1929 acting Viceroy of India. Honours: 1918 CBE; 1924 GCIE; 1929 GCSI; 1930 Privy Counsellor; KGStJ; Honourary colonel, East Kent regiment. Title: 2nd Viscount Goschen British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Descri...

Indian States Committee (active 1928)

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Butler, Harcourt, 1869-1938

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1906-1908 deputy commissioner of Lucknow; 1909 CSI; 1910 member of viceroy's executive council in charge of education; 1911 KCSI; 1915-1918 lieutenant-governor of Burma; 1918-1921 lieutenant-governor of the United Provinces; 1921-1927 governor of Burma; 1923 GCIE; 1927-1929 chairman of Indian states committee; 1928 GCSI; 1931 chairman of the governing body of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University Epithet: Governor of Burma Title: Knigh...

Isaacs, Eva Violet, active 1921-1939, Viscountess Erleigh; Marchioness of Reading

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Title: Viscountess Erleigh; Marchioness of Reading British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001244.0x000338 ...

Lady Reading Women of India Fund (active 1921-1939)

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Reading, Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Marquess of, 1860-1935

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March-October 1910 solicitor-general; March 1910 Knighted; October 1910-1913 attorney-general; 1910 KCVO; 1913-1921 lord chief justice; 1915 GCB; 1917 High Commissioner to the United States of America and Canada; 1917 financial advisor, war cabinet; 1918 ambassador-extraordinary and high commissioner to Washington; 1920 freedom of Reading; 1921 GCSI and GCIE; 1922 GCVO; 1921-1926 Viceroy of India; 1926 freedom of London; 1926 captaincy of Deal castle;1931 foreign secretary; 1934 lor...

Fitzroy, Almeric William, Sir, active 1921-1939, Subject of Mss Eur E312

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Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur E312 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001477.0x0002b4 ...

Indian National Congress (active 1765-1993)

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Fitzroy, Yvonne Alice Gertrude, 1891-1971, Private Secretary to Marchioness of Reading

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1921-1926 Private secretary to Alice, Marchioness of Reading, vicereine of India Epithet: Private Secretary to Marchioness of Reading British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001477.0x0002b5 ...