Unionist Organisation Committee, 1911

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CCO 500/1/1-3

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Comprises:

CCO 500/1/1 - Unionist Organisation Committee, Interim Report, 1911;
CCO 500/1/2 - Unionist Organisation Committee, Final Report, 1911;
CCO 500/1/3 - Unionist Organisation Committee, Index of Proceedings, 1911.

Dates

1911

Extent

1 box (3 folders)

Language of Materials

English

Shelfmark

CCO 500/1/1-3

Additional Description

Biographical / Historical

This Committee was set up by Balfour in 1911 in the wake of the Party's defeat in the 1910 general elections and was chaired by Lord Chilston (hence the Committee is also referred to as the Chilston Committee). Amongst other things, the Committee was responsible for confining the Chief Whip's responsibilities to matters of parliamentary management, while his other responsibilities were transferred to the new posts of Party Treasurer and Chairman of the Party Organisation. A note written subsequently by Ralph Glyn, secretary to the Committee, in 1929 states: 'As Secretary of that Committee I had all the papers but recently destroyed most of them…'