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Large Family Archive of the Benwell Rees - Family, including William Benwell Rees (brother to actor Benedict Cumberbatch's grandmother Helen Rees, by marriage to British Diplomat Henry Arnold Cumberbatch, who was Consul in Romania, Turkey and Lebanon ). The archive includes at least one manuscript letter by Henry Arnold Cumberbatch and around one thousand documents chronicling the lives of the ex-patriate Benwell Rees family from 1890-1970 in Alexandria and Monaco, including William Benwell Rees, whose marriage to Etheldreda Blanche Barker cemented the family's role in the highest circles of Alexandria life. The archive also charts their son Basil Rees' decade in Monaco under Princess Grace and Prince Rainer III where he served as President of the British Association in the 1950's-'60s and solicited a letter written by Sir Anthony Arthur Duncan Montague Browne, on Winston Churchill's behalf on Chartwell headed paper in which the former Prime Minister declined to attend an event in Mona

[Cumberbatch, Benedict] Cumberbatch, Henry Arnold / Rees, Helen / Basil Benwell Rees / William Benwell Rees / Etheldreda Blanche Barker / [Sir Winston Churchill / Sir Anthony Arthur Duncan Montague Browne [Private Secretary to Sir Winston Churchill]].

Editore: Alexandria / Monaco / etc., c. 1902 - 1967., 1967

Da: Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, CORK, Irlanda

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Octavo. Six Volumes with hundreds of pieces of Ephemera, an original Theatre Couplet, photographs, newspaper-clippings, Theatre Programmes etc. Half Morocco. Bindings stronger rubbed and slightly damaged. Sprache: english.