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LAYTON WALTER THOMAS , FIRST BARON LAYTON, 1884-1966

 
 

Correspondence and papers relating to his academic career, his government service in both world wars, his connections with the League of Nations, the European movement and the Liberal Party, as well as his publishing interests

Layton Papers, Trinity College, Cambridge.

1915 Report on the work of the Department of Munitions Requirements and Statistics

Addison Papers, Special Collections, Bodleian Library Oxford

Correspondents

WILLIAM MAXWELL AITKEN, FIRST BARON BEAVERBROOK, Correspondence, 1934-64, Beaverbrook Papers, House of Lords Record Office

DAVID LLOYD GEORGE, 14 letters to 1936-40, Lloyd George Papers, House of Lords Record Office

PHILIP HENRY KERR, ELEVENTH MARQUIS OF LOTHIAN, Correspondence, 1931-4, Lothian Papers, National Archives of Scotland, GD 40.

SEEBOHM ROWNTREE, Correspondence with Rowntree and others relating to the General Strike, 1926-8, 1951, B. Seehohm Rowntree Papers, Joseph Rowntree Foundation Library.

Printed Material

ODNB, XXXII, 936-8; DNB, 1961-70, 636-8; D. Hubback, No Ordinary Press Baron: A Life of Walter Layton (London, 1985); Ruth Dudley Edwards, The Pursuit of Reason: The Economist, 1843-1993 (London, 1993)

Portraits: NPG, 2 Basano glass negatives, 1932, 1 Eliott and Fry print nd, 7 W. Stoneman photographs, 1935-53