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024 7    |a PP MS 14/001/046 |2 SOAS archive reference
024 7    |a PP MS 14, Box 3 |2 ORDER WITH REFERENCE
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245 00 |a Diary, 1928 - London, Scotland and Europe |h [electronic resource] |y English.
260        |c 1928.
490        |a Diaries.
500        |a Frequent meetings at the Bank of England of the Committee of Treasury and the Bank Court and with the governor; visits the Foreign Office to discuss Chinese affairs, attends meetings of the British and Chinese Corporation (B&C Corp.). and the Eastern Telegraph Company, in this year especially concerned about amalgamation with Marconi, the United States Debt Committee, the Universities' China Committee, the P&O, the Tuesday Club and the Royal Institute of International Affairs and travels to Bank of Morocco and Reichsbank meetings; also dinner engagements, concert and theatre visits and family affairs. JANUARY Search for employment by son George; attends discussions on rotation of governors and meetings of Committee of Treasury at the Bank of England; British and Chinese Corporation (B&C Corp.). meeting; Eastern Telegraph Company meeting over financial arrangements with Marconi; Royal Institute of International Affairs meeting on China; to Berlin.FEBRUARY 'Two hours hard discussion at Treasury Committee; one hour or more at B&C. 1½ hours at F.O. with Indemnity Committee. Four solid hours in the chair at Tuesday Club', 8; continued Eastern Telegraph Company and Marconi discussions; United StatesDebt Committee meeting; opposes Sir Henry Strakosch, financier as a director of the Bank of England, 'His name is against him', 22; talks with Norman about French loan to Rumania.MARCH Chairs council meeting of the Royal Economic Society; to Berlin and Paris and to visit daughter Jean in Switzerland; continuing Marconi and Rumanian loan discussions and talks on German reparations.APRIL With wife to Antwerp; talks on note amalgamation at the Committee of Treasury and on the future of the Tuesday Club; to Berlin.MAY To Braemar and Cheshire with wife; discussions at Bank of England on electing Ernest Harvey,controller, a deputy governor; chairs Royal Economic Society annual meeting and speaks at China Society dinner; to Paris. JUNE Meetings at Bank of England on the rotation of governors; to Berlin; continuing talks with Marconi.JULY Visits the Foreign Office to talk on British policy in China; to Paris, Eastern Telegraph Company meeting; attends a dinner for General Hu Han-min and Dr. Sun Fo, Kuomintang delegates, death aunt Mansfield, 28; to Berlin for Reichsbank and gold exchange talks. AUGUST Family holiday at Hartrigge, Scotland; returns to London for Eastern Telegraph Company and Committee of Treasury meetings and for China talks at the Foreign Office. SEPTEMBER To Paris; attends meetings of the Eastern Telegraph Company and Committee of Treasury, talks with Schacht about gold discount scheme and at the Foreign Office about China; to Berlin with wife and two children. OCTOBER Visits Berlin, Vienna, Budapest and Prague; attends meetings of the Eastern Telegraph Company and at the Foreign Office; the possibility of Addis succeeding Norman as governor of the Bank of England under discussion; 'it is urged against it that I am not popular in the City! Interesting to hear that. I should dread popularity', 12; agreement reached with John Pratt of the Foreign Office and Stabb on salt proposals; continued talks on rotation of Bank of England governor; to Paris for Bank of Morocco meeting and talks with de la Chaume on salt gabelle.NOVEMBER Makes speech to National Savings Committee lunch; attends Indemnity Committee meetings at the Foreign Office and agrees to a memorandum on a remission of £11½ million indemnity to China; problems with employment of son Tom; meeting of Cable Boards; to Berlin. DECEMBER Continued meetings; to Paris; working on criticisms of Foreign Office proposal to use indemnity funds for the Hankow-Canton Railway and on Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) chairman's speech.
500        |a VIAF (Name Auhtority) : Addis, Charles, 1861-1945 URI : http://viaf.org/viaf/25400384
500        |a Summary: In addition to documenting Charles Stewart Addis's role as a leading financial adviser and negotiator, the collection gives an important insight into the development of international finance and monetary policy. It comprises diaries kept by Addis (1881-1945); correspondence with his family, colleagues and friends including Alexander Michie (1886-1902) and Montagu Norman (1921-1943); business papers (1886-1945); speeches and articles (1880-1941); newspaper cuttings (c. 1860-1949) and photographs. Overall the papers are a valuable resource for those interested in European activities in East Asia in the late 19th Century; international diplomacy and banking, especially the activities of the International Banking Consortium for China; British monetary policy between the Wars; war-debts, reparations and the Anglo-American relationship; central banking co-operation and international exchange.
500        |a Admin history: Charles Stewart Addis was born in Edinburgh on 23 November 1861, the youngest son of the Reverend Thomas Addis, a minister of the Free Church of Scotland. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy. Between 1876 and 1880 he worked for Peter Dowie and Co., Grain Importers of Leith. In 1880 he joined the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) in London. In 1883 he was posted to Singapore, then to the HSBC head office in Hong Kong. In 1886 he became one of the first western bankers to reside in Peking [Beijing, China], when he was posted there as Acting Agent. During this time, he also began his experience as a writer when he was invited to contribute material to the Chinese Times by its editor, Alexander Michie. After Peking [Beijing], Addis undertook assignments in Tientsin [China] (1889), Shanghai [China] (1889-1891), Calcutta [Kolkata, India] (1891) and Rangoon [Yangon, Myanmar] (1892). While on home leave in 1894 Addis met and married Eba McIsaac, the daughter of the Provost of Saltcoats, a small town in Scotland. They were to have thirteen children. Following his marriage, Addis was posted to Shanghai. He was appointed Agent in Hankow [Wuhan, China] (1896), Calcutta [Kolkata] (1897), and served as Sub Manager in Shanghai (1898 and 1900). In 1905, he was appointed to the HSBC London Office as Junior Manager and also to the Board of Directors of the British and Chinese Corporation and the Chinese Central Railways. In 1908, he received his first official government appointment as British Censor of the State Bank of Morocco, a post he held until 1944. In 1911 he was appointed Senior Manager of the HSBC London Office. From 1912, he began his work to bring competing national banking syndicates together to form the Six Power China Consortium, transforming the policy of competition for loans to one of co-operation. The height of the Consortium's success came in 1913 when it issued a Reorganisation Loan to Yuan Shih-Kai's Republican Government. The British Government awarded Addis's efforts with a knighthood in that year. In 1917 he was appointed to the Cunliffe Committee on Currency and Foreign Exchanges After the War. In 1918 he became Director of the Bank of England, and in 1919 a member of the Bank's Committee of Treasury upon which the Governor of the Bank of England relied for advice. In that year he was also appointed to the Council of the Institute of Bankers and the India Currency Committee. In 1920, he served on the War Relief and China Famine Relief Committees, and visited New York to organise the Second China Consortium, which included banking groups from the USA, France, Japan and Great Britain. He was awarded a K.C.M.G. in 1921. In that year he retired as London Manager of the HSBC, but continued as Manager of the British Group of the China Consortium and Director on the Boards of the British and Chinese Corporation and the Chinese Central Railways. He was also elected President of the Institute of Bankers. In 1922, he was appointed Chairman of the London Committee of the HSBC, and attended the British Alternate Genoa Conference as the British financial expert. In 1923, he became Chairman of the Exchange Committee, Imperial Economic Conference. In 1924 he became a member of the Montagu Mission to Brazil; was appointed to the Colwyn Committee on National Debt and Taxation; gave evidence to the Chamberlain-Bradbury Committee and was appointed British representative on the General Council of the Reichsbank. In 1925, he served as a member of the China Advisory Committee, Boxer Indemnity, and in 1926, on the US Debt Committee. In 1929 he was the British Delegate on the Committee of Experts for Reparations in Paris. In 1930 he was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements, and also attended meetings of the Cabinet Economic Advisory Sub-Committee on China. He retired from the HSBC London Committee in 1933, and in the same year became a member of the Royal Commission on Canadian Banking. In 1944 he resigned as Manager of the British group of the China Consortium and from directorships of the British and Chinese Corporation and Chinese Central Railways. He died at Frant, Sussex on 14 December 1945. Further reading: Dayer, Roberta Allbert, Finance and Empire, Sir Charles Addis 1861-1945 (Macmillan Press, Hong Kong, 1988)
500        |a Acquisition: Donated to SOAS Library 1981-1983.
500        |a User restriction: For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
500        |a Published catalogue: Williams, Margaret Harcourt, Catalogue of the Papers of Sir Charles Addis, (SOAS, 1986). A copy of this list (albeit lacking box numbers) is in the Access to Archives (A2A) section of The National Archives website.
500        |a Related material: Associated Material at SOAS: Addis, John Mansfield: correspondence with his father Charles Stewart Addis [ref. PP MS 25 / 1-9]. Associated Material held elsewhere: Correspondence and papers (1915-1945) held at the Bank of England Archive Section, Archive Section HO-G, Threadneedle Street, London [ref. ADM16]; HSBC Group Archives, HSBC Holdings plc, Level 36 (GCQ), 8 Canada Square, London E14 5HQ. This archive contains correspondence generated by Addis within the files of semi-official letters originating from the London Office. Also contains a photographic collection with pictures of Addis as a member of the Bank staff; Correspondence between J.O.P Bland and Addis (1906-1908) are held at the University of Toronto Library, Toronto, Canada; India Office Records, British Library. Material concerning currency and banking matters from Addis's period as London Manager 1905-1921, is kept in the Finance files, for example see IOR L/F/7/21, L/F/8/71; Public Records Office, Kew, Surrey. China files from the Foreign Office, the Treasury and the Colonial Office contain material on Addis. Correspondence and papers of Robina Scott Addis are held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine: Contemporary Medical Archives centre [ref. PP/ADD]. For details of other collections containing material on Addis, see Williams, Margaret Harcourt, Catalogue of the papers of Sir Charles Addis, (SOAS, 1986).
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533        |a Electronic reproduction. |b London : |c SOAS University of London, |c Special Collections, |d 2021. |f (SOAS Digital Collections) |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software.
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650    0 |a Monetary policy.
650    0 |a International trade.
650    0 |a Currencies.
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