Abbreviated designations
Abbreviated designations
These are some of the abbreviations commonly used in the Notebooks.
(Ministers may be referred to either by their initials or their posts, usage is inconsistent)
| A. | Viscount Addison |
| A.B. | Aneurin Bevan |
| A.H. | Arthur Henderson |
| A.R. | Alfred Robens |
| A.V.A. | Albert Victor Alexander |
| Att. Gen. | Attorney General |
| Att. G. | Attorney General |
| Barnes | Alfred Barnes |
| Bowker | Reginal James Bowker |
| C.A.S. | Chief of the Air Staff |
| C.E. | James Chuter Ede |
| C.I.G.S. | Chief of the Imperial General Staff |
| C.N.S | Chief of Naval Staff |
| C.O.S. | Chiefs of Staff |
| D. | John Dugdale |
| E.B. | Ernest Bevin |
| E.D. | Ernest Davies |
| E.Sh. | Emmanuel Shinwell |
| E.S. | Edith Summerskill |
| Fr. Sh. | Francis Shepherd |
| G.A.B. | George Alfred Brown |
| G.B. | George Brown |
| G.A.I. | George Alfred Isaacs |
| G.S. | George Strauss |
| G.T. | George Tomlinson |
| G.W. | Patrick Gordon-Walker |
| H. | Lord William Watson Henderson |
| H. | Viscount George Henry Hall |
| H.A.M. | Hilary Adair Marquand |
| H.D. | Hugh Dalton |
| H.G. | Hugh Gaitskell |
| H.M. | Herbert Morrison |
| M.McN. | Hector McNeil |
| H.S. | Hartley Shawcross |
| H.W. | Harold Wilson |
| J. | Lord Jowitt |
| J.G. | James Griffiths |
| J.S. | John Strachey |
| K.Y. | Kenneth Younger |
| McN | Hector McNeil |
| M.W. | Maurice Webb |
| N.B. | Philip John Noel-Baker |
| N.E. | Ness Edwards |
| P. | Lord Francis Aungier Pakenham |
| P.M. | Prime Minister |
| Rowl. | Archibald Rowlands |
| R.R.S. | Richard Rapier Stokes |
| S.Gen. | Solicitor-General |
| Solr.G. | Solicitor-General |
| St. | Ralph Stevenson |
| Stev. | Ralph Stevenson |
| T.F. | Thomas Fraser |
| T.W. | Thomas Williams |
| Wh. | John Wheatley |
| W.W. | William Whiteley |
