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SCRAPBOOKS OF BRIGADIER-GENERAL SIR RICHARD COLVIN OF WALTHAM ABBEY.
Scope and Content:
Scrapbook of Brigadier-General Sir Richard Beale Colvin of Monkhams, Waltham Abbey
Cover inscribed vol.7, 1927-1929
Incl. scouting activities as County Commissioner including the visit of Baden Powell to a jamboree at Priory Park, Southend, 5 June 1927 and R.B. Colvin's resignation form the office in September 1929; XIth Public School Masonic Festval, Felsted School, 11 June, 1927; presentation to Arthur Denman, Clerk of Assize of S.E. Circuit, 11 June 1927; Trustee of Waltham Abbey Building Society, 1927; Conservative Unionist Fete at Monkhams, Waltham Abbey, and specch made by Winston Churchill, M.P., 18 June 1927; Chairman of Lee Valley Drainage Commission, 1927; Centenary celebrations of Royal Infant Orphanage, Wanstead, June and Nov.1927; opening King Edward VII Memorial Hall, Essex County Sanatorium, Black Notley, 3 Aug.1928; death of Lord Lambourne, Lord Lieutenant of Essex, 26 Dec.1928, appointment of R. B. Colvin as H.M. Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum for Essex, January 1929, including letter of appointment from Robt Vanssittart, for the Prime Minister, 17 January 1929; Certificate as Life Subscriber to Freemansons Hospital and Nursing Home, January 1929; enthronement of Right Rev. Dr. H. A. Wilson as Bishop of Chelmsford, 12 February 1929; Lord Lieutenant's first official entry into Chelmsford and presentation of the Mayors of Essex, February 1929; elaction as Verderer of Epping Forest, March 1929; installation as Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons in Essex, 23 April 1929; president at the inaugural meeting of the Essex Rural Community Council, 30 April 1929; activities of the Essex Yeomanry and the Essex Territorials including R. B. Colvin's resignation as Chairman of the Essex Territorial Association on being appointed President of the same, April 1929; visit of Duke of York to receive the freedom of the borough of Ilford, 11 May 1929; election as president of the Essex branch of the Central Landowners Assoc., 19 July 1929; opening of new Waterworks, Langford, c.Sept. 1929; incorporation of Walthamstow as a municipal borough, 10 October 1929; opening new hall at Industrial School and Home, Chelmsford, 1 Oct.1929; visit of Duchess of York to open new Southend General Hospital, 12 Nov.1929; marriage of R.B.R. Colvin, son of R.B. Colvin, to Lettice Fowler, 20 November 1929; visit of Prince of Wales to open new County High School for Boys, Leyton, 29 November 1929; certificate of appointment as Grand Representative of the Grand Lodge of Mississippi, 2 December 1929; opening new Town Hall, Chingford, 12 December 1929; consecration of new Masonic Lodge, Chelmsford, Dec.1929; correspondence from Winston Churchill, Stanley Baldwin and Lord Sankey 1928-1929; Xmas cards draw by Hereward Wake, 1927 1929; review of Essex Units in the War , 1914-1919, vol.IV and lecture on the same by J. M. Burrows to Essex Historical Association, May 1928; small edition of Daily Mirror 2 May 1926, re General Strike; Precis of the Scheme for the Formation of a Civil Constabulary Reserve , issued by Essex Territorial Army Assoc., c. 1926; newpaper cutting from Evening Gazette , 25 October 1973, showing photo of Oyster Feast at Colchester, 1931, attended by the Prince of Wales and R. B. Colvin; list of Lord Lieutenants of Essex, 1595-1929; collection of emblems of Essex Lodges; photos of Cadets Tour of Belgium, 1925, family portraits c.1860, Stanningtonn Church, Northumberland [N.D.], window of Sawbridgeworth Church [Herts.] erected in memory of R. B. Colvin 1863, Earl and Countess of Warwick, 1914, and funeral of Lt.Col. Alwyn Greville c. 1928; print of Volunteer Fete at Henham Hall (Suffolk) in Illustrated London News , 23 Aug.1863; print of group of gentlemen including B. B. Colvin, Baron Rothschild, Earl of Chesterfield, Viscount Curzon, Earl of Portsmouth, Duke of Beaufort, Earl of Stamford, Lord Leconfield, G. G. Greaves, Sir W. W. Wynn, Joseph Arkwright, Duke of Cleveland, Earl or Lonsdale, Sir Tatton Sykes, late Marquis of Waterford, Hon. Col. Cotton, late Sir R. Sutton, [N.D. pre 1864]:
Loose in vol. Etonians Holding Great Positions (1929) inc. R. B. Colvin as Lord Lieutenant
Dates of Creation:
c.1860-1929;1973
Extent:
1 vol.