Donors & Friends of the Churchill Archives Centre
“The inheritance bequeathed to us by former wise or valiant men becomes a rich estate to be enjoyed and used by all”
Winston S. Churchill, 2 July 1938.
The Churchill Archives Centre is funded largely from its own endowments and from the support it receives from philanthropic trusts and individuals. We can only fulfil our important mission to preserve and provide access to the unique collections in our care because of the generosity of our friends and patrons.
Since 1973 the Archives Centre has received support from a number of major donors towards the cost of staffing, equipment and key cataloguing and conservation projects. The Churchill Archives Centre would like to record its thanks to all of the following donors and friends.
Founding donors
Winthrop W. Aldrich Walter
H. Annenberg
Vincent Astor
Robert W. Bingham
David K. E. Bruce
Lewis W. Douglas
Henry Ford II
Maxwell M.Geffen
Walter S. Gifford
W. Averell
Harriman Henry J. Heinz II
Alanson Houghton
Joseph P. Kennedy
John L. Loeb
Andrew W. Mellon
David Rockefeller
Thomas J. Watson Jr
John Hay Whitney
John G. Winant
Major Donors
Anglia Television Group Plc
The Annenberg Foundation
The Atlantic Philanthropies
The Bay Foundation Cable and Wireless
Churchill Admirers in NJ, USA
The Churchill College Archives Trust
The Sir Winston Churchill Archive Trust
Mrs Elizabeth Churchill Snell
Jennie S. Churchill & Laurence Geller CBE
The Clothworkers Foundation
Henry Cooke Lumsden Plc
Harlan Crow
The Dulverton Trust
The Esmée Fairbairn Charitable Trust
The Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr Foundation Inc
The Garfield Weston Foundation
Mr Ronald Gerard OBE
John Paul Getty KBE
Mrs Kyoko Gledhill
The Mary W. Harriman Foundation
Mr Gurnee F Hart
The Hobson Charity Ltd
The Leverhulme Trust
Mr Michael Lewis
The Josephine and John J. Louis Fund
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The National Heritage Lottery Fund
The Isaac Newton Trust
Jerold J. Principato MD
The Rank Foundation
The Royal Automobile Club
Mr Ian Rushbrook
Mrs Tina Santi Flaherty
Max Wolfson Schapiro
The Daily Telegraph Plc
The Margaret Thatcher Archive Trust
The Margaret Thatcher Foundation
Miss Josephine Veitch MBE
Timothy N. Wallach
The Wellcome Trust
Mr Anthony H Wild and Mrs Anna Wild
The Wolfson Foundation
Donors to the New Wing of the Churchill Archives Centre
The New Wing of the Churchill Archives Centre was built and opened in 2002. It exists to house the papers of the Rt. Hon. Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven and to provide the Centre with the space to continue collecting important personal papers of the modern era. The names of the donors are commemorated in a band of Portland stone carved by the Kindersley studio on the exterior of the New Wing. It reads as follows:
The New wing of the Churchill Archives Centre was built with the generous support of Baroness Thatcher to house her papers. It was endowed by The Margaret Thatcher Foundation. HRH Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz. BP PLC. The Clore Duffield Foundation. Jean Duffield. Dr Yung-fa Chang, Evergreen Group. Sir Paul Getty, KBE. The Hobson Charity Limited. Eric Hotung. Sir K.S. Li and Hutchison Whampoa. Jupiter Asset Management. David W. Packard. Rudolph Palumbo Charitable Foundation. Josie and Julian Robertson. Wafic Rida Said. Harold W. Siebens. The Sunley Foundation. Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust. The Wolfson Foundation. Mr and Mrs Charles Wyly.
The letter cutters of the Cardozo Kindersley Workshop carving the commemorative stone band which runs along the length of the new wing. This skilled work took several weeks to complete. Photo supplied by the Cardozo Kindersley Worskhop.
Donors to the Archives Centre's Capital Campaign
HRH Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz
The Annenberg Foundation
The Garfield Weston Foundation
The Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States
Mr Facundo Bacardi and Mrs Elizabeth Bacardi
Mr Salvatore Bommarito and Mrs Alison Bommarito
Mr Donald L Bryant Jr
Mr Douglas N Daft and Mrs Delphine H Daft
Mr David A Gledhill and Mrs Kyoko Gledhill
Mr Robert Hamwee Mr and Mrs Charles Harris
Mr William Johnson and Mrs Sandra Johnson
The Kapnick Foundation
Mrs Sherri Parker Lee
Mr Willem Mesdag and Mrs Lisa Mesdag
Mr Jerold J Principato MD
Mr Elihu Rose and Mrs Susan Rose
The Howard and Debbie Schiller Foundation
Dr and Mrs Monroe E Trout Mr Anthony H Wild and Mrs Anna Wild
Between 2004 and 2007 the Capital Campaign raised over £2.5 million in endowment for the Churchill Archives Centre.
Donors to the Friends of the Archives Centre Appeal
| Mr James Aitken Mr Allen Aldridge Constance Senif and Leigh Anderson Mr Smith Benson Mr Neil Bhatiya Mrs Christine Bondi Mr Roger Broad Robert E Burke Kathleen M Burke Mr and Mrs William Cabell Garbee Mr Charles Calderbank Dr Ray A. Callahan Professor Omer L. Carey Dr Christopher Catherwood Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey Bt Miss Nonie Chapman Churchill Society of Tennessee Malcolm and Janet Cockcroft Professor Tim Congden CBE Ms Ricki G. Conway Professor James Cronin Mr Peter Cropper CBE Mr Jack Darrah Mr William F. Davison Mr C. Stuart Dawson Jr |
Mr Alan Eade Dr and Mrs Lanny Edelsohn M.D. EEMLAC Mr Daniel Ellis Mr Lee D. Evans Dr David Freeman Mr Marcus Frost Mr Gary Garrison Mr Ron Gerard OBE Dr Mark Goldie Professor Barry Gough Mrs Cora Roxanne Hale Professor Geoffrey Hallam Professor Christopher C. Harmon Mr and Mrs Hinks Dr A E Dick Howard Mr Harry Jackson Michael Jankovic Ms Jill Johnson Professor Marvin Kalb Professor Tony Kelly Mr Joseph E Kubacka Jr Mr Spencer Kunath |
| Mr Philip Larson Ellen LeCompte Mr Winston J. Lindsley Mrs Mary S. Lovell Mr Michael G. Max Mr Charles G. McIntosh JP Morgan Chase and Co Mr and Mrs Lester S. Morse Jr National Bank of Kuwait (International) PLC Mr Klaus F. Naumann Mr David Newton Sir John Nott Mr Allen Packwood Ms Angi Parks Mr Howard Mrs Sally Peters Mr Lee and Mrs Jill Pollock Mr Colin Quinney Mr David F. Ramsay Major General Charles Ramsay Dr John Ranelagh Professor David Reynolds Alan and Barbara Richardson Dr R Hardee Rives Miss Priscilla Roberts |
Mr Nicholas and Mrs Julia Roskill Royal Society of Arts (East of England Region) Mr Ian Rushbrook Dr G W Sand Ms Sylvia Sanders Dr Matthew Seligmann Mr Daniel J Sigman Mr Geoffrey Simonds Mr Patrick Hawke Smith Professor and Mrs W M Steen Mrs Tessa Till Ms Elizabeth Truslow Dr R McW Tullberg Professor Pierre Vaydat Miss Nina Veitch Mr William H Vogt Ms Laura Weissenberg Mr Anthony Woodhead Mr Gregory Wren Dalena Wright Mr Laurence Zuriff |
