Correspondence with Speaker Bernard Weatherill, and events leading up to his election
- Reference No:
- U DHY/7
- Dates:
- 1983-1998
- Description:
- Includes House of Commons Official Report, Volume 44, Parliamentary Debates; letters to and from James Callaghan MP, Father of the House; contains information of context of the Local Government Bill - parts are annotated; Maxwell-Hyslop complains about actions of clerks to Speaker Bernard Weatherill; letter from Speaker to W.J. McCourt Esq.; correspondence between vice-chairman of the Anglo-Brazilian Parliamentary Group Maxwell-Hyslop and P.L. Warwick of the Speaker's Office regarding members of Brazil's parliament restoring its monarchy, Speaker Weatherill and Maxwell-Hyslop, and Weatherill and Antonio Henrique Bittencourt Cunha Bueno; anecdote and letters regarding Maxwell-Hyslop recommending a statement to Speaker Weatherill; correspondence with Buckingham Palace; Maxwell-Hyslop and Speaker Weatherill discuss the libel of a temporary officer of the house, Dr Barry Rider; letter to 'Mrs Garrett' who plans to write a biography of Jack (Bernard) Weatherill, Maxwell-Hyslop writes about his election to Speaker and his own election to Parliament; contains correspondence between Sir Robert Fellowes, then the Queen's Private Secretary, and Maxwell-Hyslop discussing difficulties in electing the next Conservative Party leader prior to dissolution and before polling day; includes letters from Maxwell-Hyslop to Lord Nicholls regarding the Houses of Commons' and Lords' Joint Committee on Privilege.
- Format:
- Archive Item
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Language:
- Access Conditions:
- Access will be granted to any accredited reader
- Repository:
- Hull University Archives
- Collection:
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Records of Sir Robin Maxwell-Hyslop MP