I am currently reading Paul Johnson's excellent short biography of Churchill and just came across a passage about this. On page 151, Johnson writes that Churchill's papers were donated to the Chartwell Trust and then sold to Lord Camrose of the Daily Telegraph for the purposes of a "clever legal device to avoid the punitive taxation which would have made the memoirs pointless financially."
Bill Jolly Southaven, Miss. On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Sandy Finlayson <[email protected]> wrote: > If memory serves, Sir Martin Gilbert's book In Search of Churchill > addresses this issue. > > Sandy > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Mr. Sandy Finlayson > Director of Library Services & > Professor of Theological Bibliography > Westminster Theological Seminary > Philadelphia, PA > > 'Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library' > > Sir Winston Churchill > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] on behalf of Antoine Capet > Sent: Wed 3/3/2010 3:55 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Subject: Re: [ChurchillChat] Winston Churchill (Grandson) Death > > > > Many thanks for the link : > > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/7352232/Winston-Churchill.html > > A really complicated life! > > There is a passage in the obituary which I do not understand : > > "When Randolph Churchill died in 1968, Churchill wanted to take on > the > biography of Sir Winston that his father had begun. But Lord > Hartwell, > proprietor of the Telegraph, with whom the decision lay, engaged the > academic Martin Gilbert, who went on to produce a classic. " > > Why should the proprietor of the Daily Telegraph have a say on > Randolph > Churchill's successor for the Official Biography? From where did he > derive > this (heavy) privilege? > > Best wishes to all, > > Antoine Capet, > Rouen (France) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "ChurchillChat" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<churchillchat%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ChurchillChat" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<churchillchat%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en.
