Letter - Regarding the Warrant for Lord Belstead's Appointment as Lord Privy Seal [1988-01-11]
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Title
Letter - Regarding the Warrant for Lord Belstead's Appointment as Lord Privy Seal [1988-01-11]
Subject
Ministerial Appointments
Description
Letter from J. L. Waine to Geoffrey de Deney regarding the Warrant for Lord Belstead's appointment as Lord Privy Seal.
Creator
J. L. Waine
Source
LCO 6/4342
Date
1988-01-11
Contributor
Jason Loch
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Transcript
BY HAND
As agreed, I enclose herewith the warrant appointing Lord Belstead Lord Privy Seal which you very kindly agreed to place before The Queen on Thursday [in the margin: 14th] after the Privy Council meeting. She should sign at the top left hand corner where indicated by the pencil crosses.
I have spoken to the Home Office and, in view of the tight time scale, they agree that it would be better to ask the Lord Chancellor to sign the warrant on behalf of the Home Secretary. I should, therefore, be grateful if you would let me have the warrant some time during the afternoon of the 14th so that the Letters Patent can be sealed that day.
With many thanks for your help.
G. I. de Deney, Esq., C. V. O.,
Clerk of the Privy Council,
Privy Council Office,
Whitehall,
SW1A 2AT.
Copy Letter & copy warrant sent to H. O. 12.1.88
Privy Council meeting cancelled for 14/1 (Queen unwell) rearr[anged for Tues 19/1]
Tuesday
12th January 1988
12th January 1988
Lord Privy Seal
As agreed, I enclose herewith the warrant appointing Lord Belstead Lord Privy Seal which you very kindly agreed to place before The Queen on Thursday [in the margin: 14th] after the Privy Council meeting. She should sign at the top left hand corner where indicated by the pencil crosses.
I have spoken to the Home Office and, in view of the tight time scale, they agree that it would be better to ask the Lord Chancellor to sign the warrant on behalf of the Home Secretary. I should, therefore, be grateful if you would let me have the warrant some time during the afternoon of the 14th so that the Letters Patent can be sealed that day.
With many thanks for your help.
Miss J. L. Waine
G. I. de Deney, Esq., C. V. O.,
Clerk of the Privy Council,
Privy Council Office,
Whitehall,
SW1A 2AT.
Copy Letter & copy warrant sent to H. O. 12.1.88
Privy Council meeting cancelled for 14/1 (Queen unwell) rearr[anged for Tues 19/1]
Signatures
J. L. Waine
Recipient(s)
Geoffrey de Deney (Clerk of the Privy Council)
Ornamentation
This is a typewritten copy with handwritten annotations.
Special Features
The end of the handwritten annotation is conjectural based on the fact that the Court Circular records that there was a Privy Council meeting on January 19.
It is not clear why Waine felt it necessary to explain where Queen Elizabeth II should sign the Warrant given that she had been signing similar Warrants for over 36 years by that point.
It is not clear why Waine felt it necessary to explain where Queen Elizabeth II should sign the Warrant given that she had been signing similar Warrants for over 36 years by that point.
Files
Citation
J. L. Waine, “Letter - Regarding the Warrant for Lord Belstead's Appointment as Lord Privy Seal [1988-01-11],” Corpus of British Administrative Instruments, accessed October 20, 2026, https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/472.