THE PAPERS OF SIR PATRICK WALL MC, VRD, RM
(1916 - 1998)
[DPW]
The University of Hull
Brynmor Jones Library
2000
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CONTENTS
Page
Introduction
Political papers
1.Diaries
2.Constituency cases and correspondence
3.Local issues
Subjects A-Z
4.Agriculture
5.Communism
6.Conservative Party policy
7.Defence
8.Devolution
9.Education
10.Elections
11.Energy
12.Finance and economics
13.Fisheries
14.Health
15.Home affairs/police
16.Housing
17.Immigration
18.Industry
19.Land
20.Law, crime and security
21.Libraries
22.Local government
23.Overseas development
24.Permissive society
25.Press, radio and television
26.Roman Catholicism
27.Science
28.Social security
29.Sport
30.Trade
31.Trade unions
32.Transport: aviation
33.Transport: general, road and rail
34.Transport: inland waterways
35.Transport: shipping
36.Youth
Organisations
37.92 Committee
38.Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
39.Conservative Overseas Bureau
40.Monday Club
41.North Atlantic Assembly
42.Parliamentary groups
43.Select Committee on Defence
44.United Nations
45.Western European Union
46.WestminsterCity Council
47.World Anti Communist League
Places
48.Africa
49.Asia
50.Australasia
51.Commonwealth
52.Cyprus
53.Europe
54.European Economic Community
55.Far East
56.Gibraltar
57.Ireland
58.Malta
59.Middle East
60.North America
61.Northern Ireland
62.South Atlantic
63.West Indies
64.Visits
65.Writings
66.Miscellaneous correspondence and speeches
67.Posters
68.Publications
69.Military papers
Personal papers
70.Correspondence
71.Financial papers
72.Property and legal papers
Page
Organisations
73.35th City of WestminsterSea Scouts
74.British Sub Aqua Club
75.City of Westminster Sea Cadet Unit
76.Institute of Journalists
77.Knights of Malta
78.LondonScoutCounty
79.London Scout and Guide Underwater Association
80.Royal Yacht Squadron
Interests
81.CB Radio
82.UFOs
83.Yachts
84.Photographs
85.Schoolbooks
86.Papers of Gladys Wall
87.Papers of Oswald Wall
88.Miscellaneous
Patrick Henry Bligh Wall was born in Cheshire on 19 October 1916, the son of Henry Benedict Wall and Gladys Eleanor Finney. He was educated at DownsideSchool, Bath. In 1935 he was commissioned in the Royal Marines, training to become a specialist in naval gunnery. During the Second World War, he served on various Royal Navy vessels, including Iron Duke, Valiant and Malaya, between 1940 and 1943. From 1943 to 1945 he served in RN support craft, with the United States Navy and then with the Royal Marine Commandos. He was awarded both the Military Cross and the US Legion of Merit in 1945. After the war he studied at the RoyalNavalStaffCollege and the JointServicesStaffCollege, and was a staff instructor at the School of Combined Operations between 1946 and 1948. His last appointment afloat was in HMS Vanguard in 1949. He retired as a Major in 1950 in order to concentrate on a political career. However he remained a Reservist, commanding 47 Commando, Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve, from 1951 until its disbandment in 1956. He was awarded the Volunteer Reserve Decoration (VRD) in 1957. His involvement in naval affairs was continued for many years through his work with the City of Westminster Sea Scout and Sea Cadet organisations, and the London Sea Scout Committee.
He contested the Cleveland constituency for the Conservative Party in the general election of 1951, and again at a bye-election the following year. He was subsequently elected for the Haltemprice Division of Hull (later of East Yorkshire) at a bye-election in February 1954, which in 1983 became the Beverley constituency, where he remained MP until his retirement in 1987. In Parliament he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food between 1955 and 1957, and then to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, January 1958 - December 1959. Thereafter, as a leading back-bencher, Sir Patrick served on numerous Parliamentary and Conservative Party committees, of which the most important were: President of the Yorkshire Area Young Conservatives (1955 - 1960), Chairman of the Mediterranean Group of the Conservative Commonwealth Council (1954 - 1967), Chairman of the Conservative Parliamentary East and Central Africa Committee (1956 - 1959), Vice Chairman of the Conservative Commonwealth Affairs Committee (1960 - 1968), Vice Chairman of the Conservative Overseas Bureau (1963 - 1973), and Vice Chairman of the Conservative Defence Committee (1965 - 1971). He was a member of the Select Committee on Defence, 1980 - 1983. He was also Chairman of the Conservative Fisheries Committee (1962 - 1983), the All Party Fisheries Committee, and of the Africa Committee of the Conservative Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee. He was a Committee member of the Monday Club, and its Chairman between 1978 and 1980. He was also Chairman of: the Africa Centre (1961 - 1965); Joint East and Central Africa Board (1965 - 1975); Conservative Southern Africa Group (1970 - 1978); Conservative Africa Sub Committee (1979 - 1983); and the Royal Marines Parliamentary Group (1956 - 1987). In 1964 he founded the 92 Committee, following a meeting of MPs at his London home (92 Cheyne Walk) who desired to ‘keep the Conservative Party Conservative’. This was disbanded in 1984.
Sir Patrick was Vice Chairman of the British Section of the Inter Parliamentary Union (1974 - 1984) and Chairman of the British Bahrain, British Maltese, British South Africa and British Taiwan Groups. He represented Britain at the 17th General Assembly of the United Nations in 1962. He was leader of the British Delegation to the North Atlantic Assembly (1979 - 1987), Chairman of the NAA’s Military Committee (1977 - 1981), Vice President and then President of the NAA (1983 - 1985) and Chairman of the NAA’s Conservative / Christian Democrat Group (1977 - 1987). He was a member of the Defence Committee of the Western European Union and Council of Europe (1972 - 1973).
As a politician he specialised in the problems of the Mediterranean countries, the Middle East, and of East, Central and Southern Africa, travelling widely and frequently in those areas and beyond. He visited Africa over 20 times, sometimes for several months at a time. His particular parliamentary subject interests were defence, the fishing industry, and Commonwealth and foreign affairs.
In addition to this national and international career, Sir Patrick was also involved in local government, both as a member of Westminster City Council between 1953 and 1962, and as Vice President of the Urban District Councils Association, 1965 - 1974.
Outside the political field, he was President of the British UFO Society, Vice President of the British Sub Aqua Club (1955 - 1987) and became a Fellow of the Institute of Journalists in 1989. A Roman Catholic, he founded and chaired the Pro Fide movement in 1970. This national body has numerous high level national and international contacts.
Sir Patrick has produced numerous books and articles during his long career, including: The Royal Marine Pocket Book (6 vols.) (1944), Student power (1968), Defence policy (1969), Overseas aid (1969), The Soviet maritime threat (1973) and various editions of The southern oceans and the security of the free world. His many articles have dealt with subjects ranging from defence and religion to Rhodesia. In the late 1950s he devised Commentapes, a series of taped commentaries on Commonwealth issues, and attempted to launch it as a commercial venture.
In addition to the above activities, Sir Patrick was a keen yachtsman, and a qualified pilot and parachutist, as well as being an enthusiastic marine diver. He also had a passionate interest in building model ships and aeroplanes, possessing some 6000 specimens by late 1992. These were placed on loan in the Museum of Army Transport at Beverley in February 1993.
Sir Patrick was knighted for his political services in 1981. He had earlier been made a Knight of the Sovereign Order of Malta, and was created a Freeman of Beverley in 1989. When not travelling, he found time during his retirement to build up a collection of exotic birds at his Brantinghamthorpe home, including parrots and peacocks. He suffered a severe stroke in September 1992, and moved into a home for retired army officers in Sussex. He married Sheila Elizabeth Putnam on 19 November 1953 and had one daughter, Rosemary, born in 1955. Now Mrs Rosemary Normand, of Arundel, she donated the Wall collection to the Library on her father’s behalf in March 1993. Sir Patrick died in May 1998.
THE PAPERS
Patrick Wall’s archive is extraordinarily comprehensive and well-organised and the cataloguing process has followed entirely the original structure and subject classifications, which were preserved on transfer to the Brynmor Jones Library. A large amount of weeding of the collection has been undertaken, both at Brantinghamthorpe before transfer, and during the cataloguing process.
Monday Club
There are some 76 files relating to the activities of the Monday Club amongst Patrick Wall's papers. The earliest material dates from 1961. They are particularly important for the mid to late 1960s, during which period the Club was very active in opposing the end of colonial rule in Africa and campaigning against the sanctions imposed on Southern Rhodesia. As well as minutes of the Executive Committee, Council, and Annual General Meetings, correspondence, reports, notices of meetings and memoranda, there are specific files on: the Chairman and Chairman’s Sub-Committee; the National Organiser; Hull and Humberside Branch; the External (later Foreign) Affairs Group; and the Universities Group. Publications include factsheets, policy papers and pamphlets on immigration and race relations.
40Monday Club: 1961 - 1989
40/1November 1961 - February 1964
File. Monday Club, 1963. Correspondence, notices of meetings, minutes of Executive Committee and General Meeting, ms. and ts. notes
Including:
a) Pamphlet. Conservatism lost? Conservatism regained, Monday Club, with draft ms. and ts. versions, [1963]
40/2November 1963 - December 1964
File. Monday Club, 1964. Correspondence, reports, notices of meetings, minutes of Executive Committee, Executive Council, Council and AGM, memoranda and ms. notes
Including:
a) Ts. ‘Automation’, Monday Club Industrial and Labour Relations Group, May 1964
40/3December 1964 - August 1965
File. Monday Club, 1965. Correspondence, ts. notes, notices of meetings, minutes of Executive Council, Council and AGM, report and memorandum
40/41965
File. Monday Club, 1965. Correspondence, reports, ts. notes and notices of meetings, and minutes of Executive Council and Council
Including:
a) Minutes of Monday Club Rhodesia Emergency Committee, 17 November 1965
b) Ts. ‘The role of subversion in foreign affairs’, Foreign Affairs Study Group, Monday Club, 1965
40/5February 1965 - December 1966
File. Monday Club, 1966. Correspondence, notices of meetings, minutes of Executive Committee, ms. and ts. notes
Including:
a) Minutes of Monday Club Rhodesia Emergency Committee, 12 December 1966
b) Minutes of Watching Committee, 30 November [1966]
40/6January 1967 - January 1968
File. Monday Club, 1967. Correspondence, notices of meetings, minutes of Executive Council, ts. and ms. notes
Including:
a) Minutes of Monday Club Rhodesia Emergency Committee meetings (2), January 1967 - February 1967
40/71965 - January 1969
File. Monday Club, 1968. Correspondence, ts. notes, notices of meetings and minutes of Executive Council
Including:
a) Minutes of Rally Committee meeting, 4 June 1968
b) Ts. ‘Monday Club facts sheet, no. 4 - Students’, with ms. versions, November 1968
40/8September 1967 - August 1969
File. Monday Club, 1969. Correspondence, notices of meetings, minutes of Executive Council, ms. and ts. notes
40/9June 1969 - December 1969
File. Monday Club, 1969. Correspondence, ts. notes, notices of meetings and minutes of Executive Council
Including:
a) Ts. ‘No mean city’, Alan Smith, regarding Conservative Party policy for social services, [1969]
40/10April 1969 - September 1971
File. Monday Club, 1970. Correspondence, notices of meetings, minutes of Executive Council and AGM, ts. notes and press releases
Including:
a) Minutes of General Assembly of the British Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, 24 June 1970
40/11January 1970 - December 1971
File. Monday Club, 1971. Correspondence, reports, ts. and ms. notes, notices of meetings, minutes of Executive Council and Monday Club in Parliament meetings, and memoranda
40/12January 1971 - December 1972
File. Monday Club, 1972. Correspondence, notices of meetings, minutes of Executive Council and Monday Club Universities Group, ts. notes, reports, press releases and memoranda
Including:
a) Minutes of meeting of Officers and Executive Committee of the Inter - Parliamentary Union, British Group, 15 December 1971
b) Ts. Annual report of Essex Monday Club, April 1972
c) Ts. ‘Who’s getting at our kids?’, Sam Swerling, [1972]
40/13November 1972 - November 1973
File. Monday Club, 1973. Correspondence, reports, ts. notes, notices of meetings, minutes of Executive Council and Special General Meeting, and memoranda
Including:
a) Minutes of General Committee of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, 13 March 1973
b) Pamphlet. The Monday Club. A danger to British democracy, published in the public interest, [1973]
c) Ts. ‘Monday Club, a survey of events’, Monday Club, [September 1973]
d) Ts. Speech by Patrick Wall to the Northern area Monday Club at Newcastle, 3 November 1972
e) Ts. ‘Report by a Sub Committee of the Executive Council set up to enquire into the organisation and structure of the Monday Club and to make recommendations’, (2), December 1972 - February 1973
40/14October 1973 - December 1974
File. Monday Club, 1974. Correspondence, ts. notes, notices of meetings, minutes of Executive Council and reports
Including:
a) Ts. ‘Right reason. A Monday Club policy document’, Monday Club, 14 January 1974
b) Carbon copy ts. 'The proportional representation issue', Brian Costello, with covering letter, 2 December 1974
40/15July 1974 - June 1975
File. Monday Club, 1975. Correspondence, minutes of Executive Council, ts. notes and reports
Including:
a) Ts. Annual report 1974 - 1975, Monday Club, April 1975
b) Ts photocopy. ‘What is communism? A Monday Club fact sheet’, Monday Club, July 1975
40/16January 1975 - June 1977
File. Monday Club, 1976. Correspondence, notices of meetings, minutes of Executive Council, ts. notes and reports
40/17May 1976 - June 1976
File. Monday Club. Correspondence, notices of meetings, ts. and ms. notes and ts. ‘Monday Club manifesto’, with ms. and ts. drafts
40/18December 1976 - December 1977
File. Monday Club, 1977. Letters, ts. notes, notices of meetings and minutes of Executive Council
Including:
a) Ts. ‘European institutions. The law and the direction of unity’, Monday Club European Policy Group Paper, July 1977
40/19February 1978 - December 1978
File. Monday Club, 1978. Correspondence
40/20March 1978 - November 1980
File. Monday Club. Correspondence, reports, notices of meetings, minutes of Executive Committee, Finance Committee, Women’s Group Committee, and Branch Chairman’s Conference, memoranda, ts. and ms. notes
Including:
a) Minutes of AGM of Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, 24 November 1979
b) Ts. ‘The Lusaka package. Settlement or sell out?’, Monday Club Policy Paper, August 1979
c) Pamphlet. Towards industrial sanity, Monday Club, and ts. draft with ms. alterations, October 1979
d) Ts. Speech by Patrick Wall at Monday Club Conference in Taunton, 16 June 1979
e) Ts. ‘Let’s not wreck our fishing fleets’, Monday Club, October 1980
f) Ts. ‘Industrial prosperity and employment opportunities for all’, Monday Club, October 1980
40/21May 1976 - November 1979
File. Monday Club. Letters
[Predominantly 1979]
40/22December 1978 - December 1979
File. Monday Club, 1979. Correspondence
40/23April 1978 - July 1981
File. Monday Club, 1981. Correspondence, reports and notices of meetings
40/24September 1981 - January 1986
Artificial bundle. Monday Club. Correspondence, reports, ts. policy papers and ts. notes
40/25March 1982 - October 1982
File. Monday Club, 1982. Letters, ts. policy papers, ts. reports and notices of meetings
40/26November 1982 - October 1983
File. Monday Club, 1983. Correspondence, reports, notices of meetings and ts. policy papers
40/27January 1984 - December 1984
File. Monday Club, 1984. Correspondence, reports, ts. policy papers and notices of meetings
40/28May 1985 - June 1986
File. Monday Club, 1986. Letter, ts. Chairman’s address and policy paper regarding taxation
40/29March 1985 - November 1987
File. Monday Club, 1987. Correspondence, reports and leaflets
40/30January 1988 - April 1989
File. Monday Club, 1988. Letters, ts. policy papers, reports, ts. notes and notices of meetings
40/31July 1987 - October 1991
File. Monday Club, 1989. Letters, notices of meetings, ts. Chairman’s address and ts. policy papers
40/32June 1978 - April 1980
File. Monday Club: Chairman. Correspondence and financial papers from the Chairman
Including:
a) File. ‘Political Officer and National Organiser’. Letters and report regarding the post, February - March 1980
40/33February 1978 - October 1979
File. Monday Club: Chairman’s Sub Committee. Correspondence, financial papers, memorandum, ts. and ms. notes, and minutes of Executive Council and Women’s Group Committee
40/34January 1975 - December 1978
File. Monday Club: Executive Council. Letters, minutes, reports, notices of meetings, press releases, ts. and ms. notes
[Predominantly 1978]
40/35December 1978 - November 1979
File. Monday Club: Executive Council. Minutes, notices of meetings, reports, press releases, ms. and ts. notes
40/36May 1976 - November 1978
File. Monday Club: conferences, 1978. Correspondence, ts. and ms. notes
40/37November 1978 - December 1979
File. Monday Club: conferences, 1979. Correspondence, press releases, memorandum, ts. and ms. notes
40/38February 1978 - July 1979
File. Monday Club: National Organiser. Correspondence, ts. notes and reports
40/39May 1976 - January 1979
File. Monday Club: Hull and Humberside branch. Correspondence, ts. policy papers, ts. and ms. notes
40/40March 1988 - May 1989
File. Yorkshire Monday Club. Correspondence
40/41December 1977 - March 1980
File. Monday Club: branches. Correspondence, reports, ms. and ts. notes
40/42May 1976 - May 1979
File. Monday Club expansion. Correspondence, ms. notes and report
40/43January 1967 - January 1968
File. Monday Club: External Affairs Group. Correspondence, notices of meetings, ts. and ms. notes, and minutes of Executive Council
Including:
a) Ts. ‘Monday Club fact sheet no. 1 - Vietnam’, August 1967
b) Ts. ‘Draft notes for a Monday Club pamphlet on aid’, [July] 1967
40/44July 1967 - September 1972
File. Monday Club: Foreign Affairs Group. Correspondence about membership
40/45March 1968 - October 1968
File. Monday Club: Foreign Affairs Group. Correspondence and ms. notes
Including:
a) Pamphlet. Russia and the world, Monday Club Defence Study Group, with ts. draft, [1968]
40/46January 1969 - November 1970
File. Monday Club: Foreign Affairs Group. Correspondence, ts. and ms. notes
40/47December 1970 - December 1972
File. Monday Club: Universities Group. Correspondence, ts. notes, reports, memorandum and minutes
Including:
a) Minutes of a United Nations Parliamentary Group Executive Committee meeting, 5 July 1972
b) Ts. Speech by Patrick Wall to the Annual General Meeting of the Monday Club Universities Group at Oxford, 27 November 1971
40/48December 1972 - October 1973
File. Monday Club: Universities Group. Correspondence
40/49October 1978 - October 1979
File. Monday Club: groups. Correspondence, notices of meetings, reports, ts. notes and minutes of Women’s Group
40/50November 1978 - February 1980
File. Monday Club: finance. Correspondence and memoranda
40/51July 1975 - November 1978
File. Monday Club: lecture notes. Ts. policy papers, ts. fact sheets, ts. notes and press releases
40/52October 1974 - July 1978
File. Monday Club: membership candidates. Correspondence, ts. and ms. notes
40/53May 1978 - August 1978
File. Monday Club: membership candidates. Correspondence, ts. and ms. notes
40/541978 - [1980]
File. Monday Club: press’. Ts. statements and press releases
40/55August 1967 - August 1968
File. BBC pamphlet, Monday Club. Correspondence, ms. notes and ts. draft
40/56December 1968 - January 1969
File. Immigration pamphlet, Monday Club. Correspondence and ts. sections of the pamphlet
Including:
a) Ts. ‘Who goes home? Immigration and repatriation’, Geo. K Young, with ms. notes, January 1969
b) Ts. ‘Facts sheet no. 5. Denationalisation’, Monday Club, January 1969
40/57February 1979 - November 1979
File. Industrial relations pamphlet, Monday Club. Correspondence and pamphlet, Towards industrial sanity, Monday Club
40/58August 1967 - March 1979
File. Monday Club fact sheets. Factsheets and letters with some draft copies
40/59May 1978 - January 1979
File. Monday Club policy papers. Letters, ts. policy papers, press releases, ts. and ms. notes
40/60January 1979
File. Monday Club publications. Letters (2) regarding a future publication
40/61March 1987
Leaflet. ‘Keep the Socialists out campaign. The insanity of Labour’s defence policy’, Monday Club
40/62April 1987
Leaflet. ‘Keep the Socialists out campaign. Unmasking the alliance’, Monday Club
40/63April 1987
Leaflet. ‘Keep the Socialists out campaign. Labour councils in action - 1’, Monday Club
40/64May 1987