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Some of Lord Geddes’ papers were destroyed by a wartime bomb which hit his office at 11 Old Jewry, London, and Lord Geddes himself appears to have destroyed some papers in later life. The papers of Lord Geddes were deposited at Churchill Archives Centre in February 1994 by his grandson the third Lord Geddes.
The papers had been collected together and arranged by the family for a possible biography and the basic structure of their files was maintained where possible.
This collection is owned by Churchill College, Cambridge.
Access and Use
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Churchill Archives Centre is open from Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm. A prior appointment and two forms of identification are required.
Researchers wishing to publish excerpts from the papers must obtain prior permission from the copyright holder and should seek advice from Archives Centre staff.
Please cite as Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes, GEDD
Further information
The collection has been catalogued and a copy of the catalogue is available for consultation in the reading room at Churchill Archives Centre, at the National Register of Archives in London and on the Janus website .
This collection (fonds) level description was prepared by Louise King of Churchill Archives Centre in July 2004. Information was obtained from Geddes’ entry in “Who Was Who” (A&C Black) and from the original catalogue produced in July 1998.
Churchill/GEDD contains: GEDD 1 David Geddes’ Index Logs. Dr David Geddes has indexed each document individually for his biographical study of his father’s time as British Ambassador to the USA (a copy of “Auckland Geddes in Washington” has reference number GEDD 5/9). The index numbers allocated by David Geddes appear at the end of each file entry in the paper catalogue.
2 files. 1989-1991 GEDD 2 Military Career. Contents include articles, certificates and correspondence.
1 file. 1906-1958 GEDD 3 Medical Career. Contents include research papers, correspondence, articles and speeches.
4 files. 1909-1950 GEDD 4 Ministerial Career. Contents include newscuttings, correspondence, letters of appointment, reports, completed army forms, statistics and research notecards.
14 files. 1916-1946 GEDD 5 Ambassadorial Career. Contents include letters of appointment, memorabilia, newscuttings, and research papers.
9 files. 1918-1991 GEDD 6 Business Career. Consists of newscuttings and letters.
1 file. 1924-1948 GEDD 7 Civil Defence Commission. Contents include correspondence, notes, articles, speeches and press cuttings.
7 files. 1938-1945 GEDD 8 Speeches. Given by Sir Auckland Geddes and including some related correspondence.
3 files. 1920-1923 GEDD 9 Family/Personal Papers. Contents include correspondence, telegrams, scripts, passports, photographs, biographical papers, papers relating to the Irish Masons and genealogical papers.
29 files. 1783-1963 GEDD 10 Writings. Correspondence and press cuttings relating to Geddes’ book “The Forging of the Family” as well as articles.
3 files. 1919-1953 GEDD 11 Obituaries. Newspaper obituaries, letters of condolence, reminiscences and papers relating to a memorial tablet in Rolvenden, Kent.