| Level | Item |
| Reference Number (click to see whole series/group) | G15/26 |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Title | SECRETARY'S FILES: DIRECTORS - VARIOUS MATTERS |
| Date | 15 Feb 1932 - 21 Oct 1964 |
| Description | John Scott Hyndley, Baron Hyndley, unable to attend Committee of Treasury often enough. Union difficulties with staff in Hampshire doing munitions work: leak to the Press. Sir Charles Jocelyn Hambro: various problems. Proposed book by Harry Arthur Siepmann about the Bank. Sir Basil Philott Blackett: criticisms of Bank and government policy. Helmut Schroder: involved in appeal for funds for German prisoners in the United Kingdom (UK). Anecdotes from Ernest Musgrave Harvey about Reginald McKenna. Sir Kenneth Oswald Peppiatt to be a director of Coutts. Sir Otto Ernst Niemeyer a director of International Nickel Company of Canada: also pension and investment details. This volume includes material relating to Montagu Collet Norman's relationship with Sir Basil Blackett and sheds light on the extent to which outside Directors were expected to toe the party line in the 1930's. |
| Original Reference | SEC2v1 |
| YearOpen | 2015 |
| Keyword | Court |