Walker's Century scrap & newscutting book ... [1933-1942]
Thomas Wodehouse Legh, 2nd Baron Newton (1857-1942)
Category
Books
Date
1933 - 1942
Materials
Place of origin
Lyme
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3230032
Summary
Full description
A collection of newspaper cuttings in English, French and German. Subjects include: decimal coinage, politics, biographies (William Bromley Davenport, Lord Lansdowne) and autobiography "Retrospection" publishing and reception of, publishing and reception of 'Sport' by William Bromley Davenport, Adelphi Bill, international affairs (league of nations), 24 hour clock, Coming out of Priscilla Egerton-Warburton (daughter of Lettice Legh), trip to South America (Lord Newton (T.W.Legh) and Hilda), dangerous driving and legislation, Peter Richard Legh's coming of age, R W Davenport Legh marries Helen Meysey-Thompson, Lord Newton's birthday, Priscilla Egerton-Warburton wedding (various famous guests listed), Piers Walter Legh connection with King's abdication, Red deer at Lyme, Piers Legh birthday, Nazis, censorship, Death of Lord Newton's brother (Gilbert Legh), Graf Spee mutiny, wrongful internment and delayed processing of German refugees, WW2 (negotiation of POW exchange), Piers Legh knighted January 1942, Death of Lord Newton 22nd March 1942.
Bibliographic description
160 p. ; 38 cm. Priced in pencil: 10/6. Provenance: indigenous. Annotation in hand of Thomas Wodehouse Legh, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)]. Binding: twentieth-century brown calf, gold lettered on spine: Cuttings.
Makers and roles
Thomas Wodehouse Legh, 2nd Baron Newton (1857-1942) Lyme Park