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Board of Enquiry Appointed by the Prime Minister to Investigate Certain Statements...
Catalogue reference: T 281
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T 281
The report and papers of the Board of Enquiry Appointed by the Prime Minister to Investigate Certain Statements Affecting Civil Servants, evidence submitted to it and evidence submitted in Ironmonger v Dyne.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- T 281
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Enquiry Appointed by the Prime Minister to Investigate Certain Statements Affecting Civil Servants (Fisher Enquiry):Records
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1928-1930
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Description (What the record is about)
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The report and papers of the Board of Enquiry Appointed by the Prime Minister to Investigate Certain Statements Affecting Civil Servants, evidence submitted to it and evidence submitted in Ironmonger v Dyne.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Board of Enquiry Appointed by the Prime Minister to Investigate Certain Statements Affecting Civil Servants, 1928-1928
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 40 file(s)
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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At the beginning of 1928 evidence given in the case of Ironmonger v Dyne, heard in the King's Bench Division of the High Court, suggested that three Foreign Office civil servants were, or had been, engaged in speculation in French francs.
On 1 February 1928 the Prime Minister appointed Sir Warren Fisher, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, Sir Malcolm Ramsey, Comptroller and Auditor General and M L Gwyer, HM Procurator-General and Solicitor to the Treasury as a board to investigate the statements made in court. The board was to establish whether currency speculation had taken place, whether official knowledge had been used for private profit and whether such transactions, even if official knowledge had not been used, "were proper or becoming in the case of a Civil Servant". The board also sought to discover whether other civil servants had been involved in such speculation.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Published accounts will be found in: Ann Bridge ' Permission to Resign: Goings on in the Corridors of Power' ( Sidgwick and Jackson, 1971)Eunan O'Halpin ' Head of the Civil Service: A Study of Sir Warren Fisher' ( Routledge, 1989).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14018/
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Board of Enquiry Appointed by the Prime Minister to Investigate Certain Statements Affecting Civil Servants (Fisher Enquiry):Records