Record

Performance TitlePrimrose League Grand Habitation Demonstration
Performance Date30 April 1948
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time15:00
Main PerformersRt. Hon. Lord Woolton (Conservative Party Chair),
Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill (Grand Master, presiding),
Robert G Beldam - speakers
Secondary PerformersArnold Greir - organ
Set List'Land of Hope and Glory', Elgar (Arnold Greir),
Address (Winston Churchill),
Speech (Lord Woolton)
Performance NotesMr Churchill and Lord Woolton strongly attached the Government and declared that the nation's first need was a new Parliament.

Guests on the stage were Major C H Hannington, John Boyd Carpenter, David Gammans, Mrs David Gammans, Lt.-Colonel Hornby Steer, Lord Aberdare, Hamilton Kerr, Lord Lyle of Westbourne, Dame Beatrix Lyall, Sir Herbert Williams, Lady Williams, Sir Richard Wells, Lady Wells, Lord Ebbisham, Lady Ebbisham, Captain The Lord Teynham, Lady Teynham, Lady Churchill and Lady Woolton.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1948/119)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1948/119The Primrose League - Grand Habitation Demonstration30 April 1948
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Owrobiedowl_BobPrimrose League Grand Habitation1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/7223Boyd-Carpenter; John (1908-1998); PC; British Conservative politician
DS/UK/7222Gammans; Sir; David (1895-1957); 1st Baronet; British Conservative politician
DS/UK/3600Bruce; Lord; Clarence (2 August 1885-4 October 1957); 3rd Baron Aberdare GBE; British military officer, cricketer and tennis player
DS/UK/7231Kerr; Sir; Hamilton William (1903-1974); British Conservative politician
DS/UK/7968Lyle; Leonard (1882-1954); 1st Baron Lyle of Westbourne; British industrialist, Conservative politician
DS/UK/2240Lyall; Dame; Beatrix Margaret (1873-1948); British social reformer, London politician
DS/UK/7969Williams; Sir; Herbert (1884-1954); 1st Baronet; British Conservative MP
DS/UK/7970Wells; Sir; Richard (1879-1957); 1st Baronet; British Conservative MP
DS/UK/4078Blades; Lord; Rowland (15 April 1868-24 May 1953); 1st Baron Ebbisham; English Conservative politician, printer, and Lord Mayor of London.
DS/UK/7972Curzon; Christopher John Henry Roper- (1896-1972); 19th Baron Teynham; English peer
DS/UK/6487Marquis; Frederick James (1883-1964); 1st Earl of Woolton CH, PC; English businessman, statesman, politician
DS/UK/2028Churchill; Sir; Winston (30 November 1874-24 January 1965); KG OM CH TD DL FRS RA; British politician, army officer, and writer
DS/UK/7973Beldam; Robert (1914-2003); CBE; British honorary fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge
DS/UK/1586Greir; Robert Arnold (fl 1914-1967); English organist
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