Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts: Evershed Papers

HMC 3

1937-1960

Papers of Francis Raymond, 1st Baron Evershed, as chairman of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1937 to 1960 (including some papers of his predecessor as chairman, Lord Greene); as chairman of the Central Price Regulation Committee, 1940 to 1942; as Ministry of Fuel and Power Regional Controller for the North Midland Region, 1943 to 1945; as chairman of the Committee of Inquiry of Textile Machinery, 1944 to 1947; as chairman of the Committee of Investigation into Wages in the Port Transport Industry, 1938 to 1945; as chairman of a Court of Inquiry into a Dispute in London Docks, 1954 to 1955; and papers relating to his report on the Internal Organisation of Naval Aviation, 1944 to 1945.

For papers of the Central Price Regulation Committee see BT 94

Public Record(s)

English

30 file(s)

Subject to 30 year closure

Topics

Archives and libraries

Pay and pensions

Navy

Personal and family papers

These papers were removed from Lord Evershed's rooms at the Law Courts in 1962 and given to the Historical Manuscripts Commission by Lord Evershed's clerk.

Francis Raymond Evershed, created 1st Baron Evershed of Stapenhill in 1956, was born 8th August 1899. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1923, and was a Judge (Chancery Division) and High Court Justice from 1944-1947. He became a Privy Councillor in 1947. He was a Lord Justice of Appeal from 1947 until 1949, when he became Master of the Rolls and both a member and Chairman of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. On his appointment as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in 1962, he ceased to be Master of the Rolls and Chairman of the Commission but continued as a member of the Commission until his death on 3rd October, 1966. He was a United Kingdom member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague from 1950 onwards. In 1953 he was made Freeman of the City of London.