Uncatalogued: Tovey, John Cronyn, Admiral of the Fleet, 1885-1971
Box 1: contains a printed book entitled 'Ward-room diary HMS Ariadne 1902-1905' by T.T.Jeans, RN; two scrapbooks/folders containing dinner menus, telegrams, letters, two visitor books covering 1935-1946, photos, newspaper cuttings and the LONDON GAZETTE dated 14 October 1947.
Box 2: contains letters and extracts re: Brief Life of Lord Tovey by his nephew Lt. Colonel A. H. Tovey; xerox copies of small album of letters returned to Mrs Tovey; four scrapbooks/folders containing photographs, letters to Admiral Tovey including from Andrew Cunningham, Admiral Tovey's commissions (flimsies), photographs including Winston Churchill on HMS TYNE, also clergymen at sea, a religious service, Tovey's living quarters on board, many photographs of crew and of locations including Iceland and during arctic convoys.
Photograph album dated 2 December 1940 and initialled J.C.T includes photographs of King George VI visiting HMS KING GEORGE V and shaking hands with the Admiral; crew; U.S.S WASHINGTON in Scapa Flow with KING GEORGE V in background; HM inspecting WRENS at Lyness; several photographs of Winston Churchill on HMS TYNE including him giving a speech on board; KING GEORGE V covering Russian convoys.
Oversize folders: Two official grants with seals: Sir John Cronyn, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, ennobled as Baron Tovey, 11 February 1946.
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Box 2: contains letters and extracts re: Brief Life of Lord Tovey by his nephew Lt. Colonel A. H. Tovey; xerox copies of small album of letters returned to Mrs Tovey; four scrapbooks/folders containing photographs, letters to Admiral Tovey including from Andrew Cunningham, Admiral Tovey's commissions (flimsies), photographs including Winston Churchill on HMS TYNE, also clergymen at sea, a religious service, Tovey's living quarters on board, many photographs of crew and of locations including Iceland and during arctic convoys.
Photograph album dated 2 December 1940 and initialled J.C.T includes photographs of King George VI visiting HMS KING GEORGE V and shaking hands with the Admiral; crew; U.S.S WASHINGTON in Scapa Flow with KING GEORGE V in background; HM inspecting WRENS at Lyness; several photographs of Winston Churchill on HMS TYNE including him giving a speech on board; KING GEORGE V covering Russian convoys.
Oversize folders: Two official grants with seals: Sir John Cronyn, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, ennobled as Baron Tovey, 11 February 1946.
Please contact archive staff for more information about ordering from this collection.