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Watson/3/2
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- 1953 - 1992 (Creation)
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1 box; paper
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Biographical history
George Grimes Watson was born in Brisbane, Australia, on 13 October 1927. He was educated at Brisbane Boys' College and the University of Queensland, where he graduated in 1948 with a degree in English. He secured a scholarship for a second degree and received an English degree from Trinity College, Oxford in 1950; he worked for the European Commission as an interpreter before becoming a lecturer in English at Cambridge in 1959 and a Fellow of St John's College in 1961. He remained at St John's until his death on 2 August 2013.
Watson edited 'The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'. As well as producing wide-ranging literary and cultural criticism, he was involved in leftist politics, campaigning as a Liberal candidate in 1959 and 1979 and working as Editor for the Unservile State Group; his political writing often critiques socialism from a liberal perspective.
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This subseries contains Watson's correspondence with members of the Unservile State Group as well as associated figures; on occasion files contain, per Watson's grouping, correspondence about, as well as to or from, the person named. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list of correspondents follows.
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ALLEN, George
ARON, Raymond
ASHDOWN, Paddy
BARNES, Rosie
BEITH, Alan
BONHAM-CARTER, Mark
BRIGGS, Asa
BRITTAN, Samuel
BRUNNER, John
BUCHAN, Alistair
BUSH, Ian E
BUTLER, David
CAMERON, J M
CARR, Edward Hallett
CHILVER, Sylvia
CLARK, William
CLARKE, Norman
CONQUEST, Robert
COWIE, Harry
CRANSTON, Maurice
CROOME, Honor
CROUCH, Colin
CURLE, Adam C T W
DAHRENDORF, Ralf
DAY, Robin
DEIGHTON, Herbert Stanley
DENNISON, S R
DODDS, Elliott
DUNCAN, Dennis H
ELTIS, Walter
FOGARTY, Michael P
FOOT, Michael
FORBES, Bryan
FURTH, C A
GOODHART, A L
GRENSTED, L W
GRIGG, John Edward Poynder, Lord Altrincham
GRIMOND, Jo
HAGUE, Douglas
HAMSON, C J
HARVEY, Heather
HARTLEY, Anthony
HERBERT, S Mervyn
HIBBS, John
HILL, Evelyn
HOLFORD, William
HOLLINGWORTH, Clare
HOLLIS, Christopher
HONORÉ, Tony
HOOSER, H Emlyn
HUGH JONES, E M
HUTTON, Graham
HYDE, H Montgomery
JAMES, Walter
JEBB, Hubert Miles Gladwyn, Lord Gladwyn
JEFFREYS, Harold
JENKINS, Roy
JENNINGS, Bernard
JEWKES, John
JOHNSON, Paul
KASER, Michael
KEITH-LUCAS, Brian
KENNEDY, Ludovic
LAMB, Richard
LASKY, Melvin J
LE FOE, Dominic
LEVIN, Bernard
LEYLAND, Norman Harrison
LIDDELL HART, Basil Henry
LORT-PHILLIPS, Patrick
MacCALLUM SCOTT, John
MacDONALD, John
MACKAY, Simon Brooke, Baron Tanlaw
MacKENZIE, Norman
MACKIE, George Yull
MADARIAGA, Salvador de
MADDEN, Freddie
MAITLAND, Patrick
MARTIN, David
McCALLUM, Ronald Buchanan
MEADE, J S
MEADOWCROFT, Michael
MICKLEM, Nathaniel
MIRFIN, Derick
MOORE, Richard
MORGAN, Christine
MORGAN, E
MORPURGO, Jack
MORRELL, William B
MOSER, Claus Adolf
MOUGHTON, Barry
MURDOCH, Iris
NAIRN, Ian
NEWBY, Donald
NICHOLAS, H G
NICOLSON, Nigel
PAIGE, Duncan
PAISH, F W
PATON, Alan
PEACOCK, Alan T
PETERSON, A D C
POLANYI, Michael
POLLITT, Brian
POWELL, Dilys
PRESTON, Phyllis
PRYCE-JONES, Alan
RICE, Valerie
ROSE, Richard
ROWNTREE, B Philip
RUSSELL, Conrad Sebastian Robert, Lord Russell
SADLEIR, Michael
SALTER, Frank R
SAMUEL, Godfrey
SANDFORD, Cedric
SEEAR, Nancy
SELDON, Arthur
SELF, Peter
SHONFIELD, Andrew
SKELSEY, Philip
SLOMAN, Peter
SMITH, Trevor
SPARROW, John
SPRECKLEY, David R A
STEEL, David M S
TAVERNE, Dick
TEMPLE SMITH, Maurice
THOMAS, W Harford
THOMSON, David
THOMSON, John
THORPE, Jeremy
TRILLING, Lionel
USBORNE, Henry
VINCENT, John R
WADE, Henry William Rawson
WADE, William Oulton, Lord Wade
WAINWRIGHT, Richard
WARD PERKINS, Neville
WATKINS, Philip
WAYNE, Francis
WEST, E G
WHEATCROFT, G S A
WILES, Peter
WILLIAMS, Raymond
WINT, Guy
WISEMAN, Jack