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Lord Edmund-Davies Papers,
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Lord Edmund-Davies Papers,

  • GB 0210 LORDED
  • Fonds
  • 1908x1992 /

Papers of Lord Edmund-Davies of Holborn, London, reflecting his career as a barrister and High Court judge, including papers deriving from court cases in which he was involved, 1936-1983; papers relating to the Great Train Robbery, [1964]; papers relating to the Aberfan Disaster Tribunal, 1966-1967, 1974; general legal papers, 1972-1986, including papers relating to the Welsh Language Act 1967, the work of the Committee of Inquiry on the Police, and the work and procedure of the House of Lords; photocopies of miscellaneous legal papers, 1908-1979; printed copies of appeals from the Court of Appeal to the House of Lords, 1947-1954; Lord Edmund-Davies' judge's notebooks, [1976x1985]; papers, mainly opinions of counsel relating to cases concerning the National Coal Board, 1947-1956; petitions against the Cardiff Corporation relating to water supply, 1954-1955; and minutes of meetings, reports, memoranda, etc. deriving from the work of the Committee of Inquiry on the Police, which Lord Edmund-Davies chaired, 1977-1979; together with papers relating to specific subjects such as the affairs of the London Welsh Trust, British Universities and Lord Edmund-Davies' selection as an observer for the British Government at the trial at Cairo of two Britons accused of spying, 1957-1986; speeches, lecture notes, and articles including legal speeches, [c. 1920s-1986], and offprints and typescripts of lectures by others, 1921-1983; correspondence files, 1967-1987; literary works by Lord Edmund-Davies, 1917-1929; correspondence and papers relating to his various appointments, 1942-1982; press cuttings, [1926x1992]; and miscellaneous correspondence and papers, 1908-1990.

Additional papers of Lord Edmund-Davies, Aberpennar, barrister and high court judge, including letters, papers relating to a visit to Canada, 1966, press cuttings, addresses to universities and other learned societies, and a number of photographs of him. This group remains uncatalogued.

Edmund-Davies, Herbert Edmund, Baron, 1906-

School books, including notes on English History by Edmund-Davies; manuscript key to shorthand; Macmillan's Story Readers, Book 1, by Evelyn ...,

School books, including notes on English History by Edmund-Davies; manuscript key to shorthand; Macmillan's Story Readers, Book 1, by Evelyn Sharpe (London, 1908); together with a manuscript book entitled 'Lives of Great Writers', compiled by Edmund-Davies and other pupils of Form vi, Mountain Ash County School, December 1908.

Correspondence and papers concerning Edmund-Davies's career, including his appointment as Recorder of Merthyr Tydfil, 1942, Recorder of Swansea, 1944, Recorder ...,

Correspondence and papers concerning Edmund-Davies's career, including his appointment as Recorder of Merthyr Tydfil, 1942, Recorder of Swansea, 1944, Recorder of Cardiff, 1945, and Chairman of the Denbigh County Court of Quarter Sessions, 1953; also included are papers relating to his nomination as member of the Royal Commission on the Penal System, 1964, and Chairman of the Criminal Law Revision Committee, 1968; and to his appointment to conduct a Government review of the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1978, 1982.

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