Series
Treasury and other departments: Sir R W B (Otto) Clarke Papers
Catalogue reference: T 325
What's it about?
T 325
This series consists of minutes, correspondence, draft papers and copies of reports and press cuttings collected by Sir Richard William Barnes (Otto) Clarke.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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T 325
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Title (The name of the record)
- Treasury and other departments: Sir R W B (Otto) Clarke Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1940-1977
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of minutes, correspondence, draft papers and copies of reports and press cuttings collected by Sir Richard William Barnes (Otto) Clarke.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Clarke, Richard William Barnes, 1910-1975
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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202 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Brenda Pile, 1950-1975
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No future accruals expected
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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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Sir Richard William Barnes (Otto) Clarke was born in 1910. At the outbreak of the Second World War he served successively in the Ministries of Information, Economic Warfare, and Supply and Production. In 1945 he joined HM Treasury; during his twenty one years in the department he made a number of outstanding contributions, including chairing the official programmes committee (dealing mainly with the UK balance of payments), planning the UK response to the Marshall Plan, and control and management of the public expenditure survey committee.
From 1966 to 1970 he was Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Technology
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14062/
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Treasury and other departments: Sir R W B (Otto) Clarke Papers