| Description | Contents include the following: (1) Minutes: Edward Robert Peacock's succession to the vacancy created by John Baring, Baron Revelstoke's death not a precedent (both were directors of the same house), 1929; Powers of Directors, 1930; Possible responses to the Macmillan Report, 1931; Need for Bank to speak with one voice on economic matters, 1932-33; Directors not to be prominently associated with political parties; Advisability of appointing left-wing and clearing bank candidates to Court; Josiah Wedgwood appointed, 1941; Pressure from outside directors for policy role, 1942; Directors not to write to the press on controversial subjects, 1942; Attendance on Saturdays no longer expected of Executive Directors, 1953; Procedure for handling Bank Rate Charges, 1959; (2) Other: Otto Ernst Niemeyer on Labour support for nationalisation, 1939; Directors remuneration and provisions, 1939; Return offered on 2½ % War Bonds, 1940; Protest by outside directors on non consultation over Bank Rate change announced in Budget, 1970. |