Summary Guide

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3.1 IDENTITY STATEMENT

3.1.1 Reference code: GB99 KCLMA Phipps

3.1.2 Title: PHIPPS, Rt Hon Sir Eric (Clare Edmund) (1875-1945)

3.1.3 Dates of creation of material: 1933-1937

3.1.4 Level of description: collection level

3.1.5 Extent: 4 vols

3.2 CONTEXT

3.2.2 Biographical history: Born in 1875; educated at King's College, Cambridge; Attaché, HM Embassy, Paris, then Constantinople and Rome; private secretary to Rt Hon Sir Francis Leveson Bertie (later 1st Viscount Bertie of Thame), HM Ambassador, Paris, 1909-1912; appointed First Secretary of HM Embassy, Petrograd, 1912, HM Embassy, Madrid, 1913, and HM Embassy, Paris, 1916; British Secretary to the Paris Peace Congress, 1919; Assistant Secretary at the Foreign Office, 1919-1920; Counsellor of HM Embassy, Brussels, 1920-1922; Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris, 1922-1928; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Vienna, 1928-1933; attached to British Delegation at Hague Reparations Conferences, 1929 and 1930; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Berlin, 1933-1937, and Paris, 1937-1939; died in 1945.

3.2.5 Provenance/source of acquisition: Purchased by the Centre in 1989.

3.3 CONTENT AND STRUCTURE

3.3.1 Scope and content: Albums of Nazi propaganda photographs recording the achievements of the Third Reich, 1933-1936, compiled by the German Ministry of Propaganda in 1934-1937 and presented to Phipps as British Ambassador in Berlin. With covering letter from Dr Joseph Paul Goebbels, 1934.

3.3.4 Arrangement: 4 vols

3.4 CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE

3.4.2 Access: Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

3.4.3 Copyright: Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the College Archivist.

3.4.4 Language: English

3.4.6 Finding aids: Summary guide entry on-line and due to be published in hard copy.

3.5 ALLIED MATERIALS

3.5.4 Associated material: Public Record Office: correspondence as British Ambassador to Berlin, 1933-1937 (Ref: FO 794/16). Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge University, correspondence and papers, 1898-1944, including diaries as British Ambassador to Berlin, 1933-1937 (Ref: PHPP); correspondence with Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey of The Chart, 1933-1939 (Ref: HNKY). House of Lords Record Office: correspondence with John Colin Campbell Davidson, 1st Viscount Davidson of Little Gaddesden and Rt Hon Andrew Bonar Law (Ref: Davidson papers). Liverpool Record Office and Local History Department: correspondence with Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby (Ref: 920 DER).

3.6 NOTE AREA

3.6.1 Date of compilation: Aug 1997

3.6.2 Decorations: GCB, GCMG, GCVO

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