BOTTOMLEY, Arthur George, 1907-1995, Baron Bottomley MP

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0097 BOTTOMLEY
Held at	: British Library of Political and Economic Science   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/library ›
Full title	: BOTTOMLEY, Arthur George, 1907-1995, Baron Bottomley MP
Date(s)	: 1944-1983
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 9 Boxes and one packet
Name of creator(s)	: Bottomley, Arthur George, 1907-1995, Baron Bottomley politician

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Arthur George Bottomley, 1907-1995, was educated at Gamuel Road Council School and took extension classes at Toynbee Hall. He entered politics in 1929 as a councillor in the Borough of Walthamstow, holding the office of mayor 1945-1946. He was the Labour Party MP for Chatham Division of Rochester 1945-1950, for Rochester and Chatham, 1950-1959, for Middlesborough East, 1962-1974, and for Teeside, Middlesborough 1974-1983. His Parliamentary career focused on trade and the Commonwealth. His positions included Parliamentary Under-Secretary for State for the Dominions, 1947-1951; Secretary for Overseas Trade, Board of Trade, 1947-1951; Chairman of the Commonwealth Relations and Colonies Group of the Parliamentary Labour Party in 1963; Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs, 1964 - 1966; and Minister for Overseas Development, 1966 - 1967. He also participated in many government missions and delegations overseas during the course of his career. He was created a life peer in 1984.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

This collection contains correspondence, papers, notes for speeches, pamphlets, circulars and press cuttings relating to Bottomley's visits to Burma (for the Panglong Conference) Kenya, Ghana, Hong Kong, Cyprus, Ethiopia and Rhodesia. There are also articles and correspondence concerning the Rhodesian situation and race relations, photographs of official occasions, including press and official photographs of British Commonwealth occasions, many showing Arthur Bottomley, 1950s-1960s, and a diary of the Parliamentary Delegation to India in 1946.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

There is no system of arrangement. The items are box-listed.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright is held by the donor.

Finding aids:

Printed handlist and online catalogue available.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

There was an additional accession on 22 February 1992 (Accession No: M 1736) from Arthur Bottomley via Megnad Desai of one packet of photographs of British Commonwealth occasions.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Oxford University: Rhodes House Library holds correspondence of Bottomley on colonial issues, 1945-1955 (Ref: MSS Brit Emp s 365); British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections holds Bottomley's memoir on Burma, c1945-1947 (Ref: MSS Eur E 362).

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Output from CAIRS using template 14 and checked by hand on January 1, 2002

Rules or conventions:

Date(s) of descriptions:
1 Jan 2002; revised 26 Feb 2002.