Collection PHIPPS - PHIPPS, Rt Hon Sir Eric (1875-1945)

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Key Information

Reference code

PHIPPS

Title

PHIPPS, Rt Hon Sir Eric (1875-1945)

Date(s)

  • 1933-1937 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

4 vols

Scope and content

Albums of Nazi propaganda photographs recording the achievements of the Third Reich, 1933-1936, compiled by the German Ministry of Propaganda in 1934-1937 and presented to Phipps as British Ambassador in Berlin. With covering letter from Dr Joseph Paul Goebbels, 1934.

System of arrangement

4 vols

General Information

Name of creator

(1875-1945)

Biographical history

Born in 1875; educated at King's College, Cambridge; Attaché, HM Embassy, Paris, then Constantinople and Rome; private secretary to Rt Hon Sir Francis Leveson Bertie (later 1st Viscount Bertie of Thame), HM Ambassador, Paris, 1909-1912; appointed First Secretary of HM Embassy, Petrograd, 1912, HM Embassy, Madrid, 1913, and HM Embassy, Paris, 1916; British Secretary to the Paris Peace Congress, 1919; Assistant Secretary at the Foreign Office, 1919-1920; Counsellor of HM Embassy, Brussels, 1920-1922; Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris, 1922-1928; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Vienna, 1928-1933; attached to British Delegation at Hague Reparations Conferences, 1929 and 1930; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Berlin, 1933-1937, and Paris, 1937-1939; died in 1945.

Custodial history

Purchased by the Centre in 1989.

Conditions governing access

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.

Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Finding aids

This collection level description.

Related materials

The National Archives: correspondence as British Ambassador to Berlin, 1933-1937 (Ref: FO 794/16). Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge University, correspondence and papers, 1898-1944, including diaries as British Ambassador to Berlin, 1933-1937 (Ref: PHPP); correspondence with Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey of The Chart, 1933-1939 (Ref: HNKY). House of Lords Record Office: correspondence with John Colin Campbell Davidson, 1st Viscount Davidson of Little Gaddesden and Rt Hon Andrew Bonar Law (Ref: Davidson papers). Liverpool Record Office and Local History Department: correspondence with Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby (Ref: 920 DER).

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Note

Decorations: GCB, GCMG, GCVO

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Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

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