Autograph Album.- Incl. Winston Churchill

Autograph Album.- Incl. Winston Churchill

Autograph album featuring signatures by Winston Churchill; Bernard Law Montgomery; Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury; William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury; Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener; Edward, Prince of Wales;Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury; Alfred Carey Wollaston Rose, Bishop of Dover; Compton Mackenzie; Maria, Queen of Yugoslavia; Laurence Olivier; William Ashley-Brown; Isabelle Clavieres; Rajaram III, Maharaja of Kolhapur; Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon; Marie Adelaide Freeman-Thomas, Marchioness of Willingdon; Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood; Major-General Harry Ashley Vane Cummins; Colonel Victor Alexander Cazalet; Marquis Victor Vivien de Châteaubrun; Eileen Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland; Sir Godfrey John Vignoles Thomas; Sir Harry Lloyd Verney; Brother Bede Frost; Philip Arthur Micklem; Evelyn Murial Micklem; Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading; Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto; Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn; Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (signed as Lord Irwin); Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland; Sir Leslie Orme Wilson; General Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson; Bhawanrao Shriniwasrao Pant Pratinidhi; Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 3rd Baron Chelmsford; George Ambrose Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd; Harcourt Butler, Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler; William Robert Wellesley Peel, 1st Earl Peel; Gwen Lally (born Gwendolin Rosalie Lally Tollandal Speck; Ranjit Singh of Nwanagar, Colonel Kumar Sri Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji II, miscellaneous collection including signed cards and clipped signatures pasted onto album pages, modern binding, light handling wear, oblong 8vo, c. 1917-1947; also including loose clipped signatures by Field Marshal Jan Smuts, Ramsay MacDonald, Harold Gibraltar; Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry; Leslie Frederic Scott; Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood; William Thomas Cosgrave; Clive Wigram, 1st Baron Wigram and others, and a postcard signed by Australian Antarctic explorers from 1965 (small quantity)

PROVENANCE: signatures were obtained by the vendor's mother and grandfather. The latter was an Australian, Army chaplain in WWI, who then served in India (1917-1937), latterly as Archdeacon of Bombay. He was rector of Smeeth and subsequently Cranbrook in Kent, England, then Dean of Gibraltar from 1943 to 1945.

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