IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Humphreys, D C
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: HUMPHREYS, (David) Colin (1925-1992)
Date(s): [1915-1918], 1926, 1970-1984
Level of description: Collection (Fonds)
Extent: : 3 boxes or 0.03 cubic metres
Name of creator(s): Humphreys | David Colin | 1925-1992
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born 1925; educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge; served in Army, World War Two, 1943-1945; Air Ministry, 1949; Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Air, 1959-1960; Counsellor, UK Delegation to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), 1960-1963; Air Force department, 1963-1969; Imperial Defence College, 1970; Defence Policy Staff, 1971-1972; Assistant Secretary General (Defence Planning and Policy), North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), 1972-1976; awarded CMG, 1977; Assistant Under Secretary of State (Naval Staff), Ministry of Defence, 1977-1979; Deputy Under-Secretary of State (Air), Ministry of Defence, 1979-1985; Director of Development, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1985-1986; died 1992.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of (David) Colin Humphreys. Typescript background details of students on Imperial Defence College course, London, 1970; typescript paper by Humphreys entitled 'The history of British Defence Policy 1975-1985', written whilst a student at the Imperial Defence College, London, 1970; typescript and manuscript notes and texts of lectures by Humphreys and papers relating to various conferences, 1981-1984; typescript North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) confidential paper by Humphreys entitled 'Study on the politico-strategic aspects of maritime nuclear warfare in the NATO area', 1979; typescript copy of 1926 official memorandum entitled 'Organisation of the RAF, 1919-1926'; photograph album compiled by Lt James Cranmer (father of Mrs Humphreys), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Middle East, World War One [1915-1918].
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The collection is arranged in sections as outlined above.
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1995.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 1998