Treasury: Papers of Lord Bridges

T 273

1920-1957

Papers of Edward Bridges (1st Lord Bridges) accumulated during his term of appointment as Permanent Secretary to the Treasury and Official Head of the Civil Service from 1945 to 1956.

The series is divided into three areas: establishments, economic and financial, and Sir Horace Wilson's papers. The series also includes papers from Sir Richard Hopkins' (1942-1945) and Sir Warren Fisher's (1919-1939) time as Permanent Secretaries to the Treasury and of Sir Horace Wilson (1939-1942) during his appointment as special adviser to the Prime Minister during the Munich Crisis of 1938.

A wide range of subjects are covered, mostly connected with administrative matters, appointments, the activities of various committees and commissions, economic and financial policy, and the machinery of government. The series also includes papers on the Inquiry into the dismissal of Sir Christopher Bullock.

Chronological within subject

See also T 269

Public Record(s)

English

• Bridges, Edward Ettingdene, 1892-1969
• Fisher, Norman Fenwick Warren, 1879-1948
• Hopkins, Richard Valentine Nind, 1880-1955
• Wilson, Horace John, 1882-1972

443 file(s)

Open unless otherwise stated

From 1986 Treasury

Series is accruing

Pieces 411-443 were not part of the records of papers transferred from the Civil Service Department to the Treasury to form the Bridges collection.

Lord (Sir Edward Ettingdene) Bridges was born in 1892. He served briefly in the Treasury during the First World War and again from 1919 through to his retirement in 1956 apart from his appointment as Secretary to the Cabinet from 1938 to 1945. Lord Bridges died in 1969.