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.E. | Anthony Eden (P.M. after 5 April 1955) |
| A.H. | Anthony Head |
| A.L.B.. | Alan Lennox-Boyd |
| A.N. | Anthony Nutting |
| Att. G. | Attorney General |
| B-C. or B.C | John Boyd-Carpenter |
| B-H. or B.H. | Patrick Buchan-Hepburn |
| Birch or N.B. | Nigel Birch |
| Boyle | Dermot Alexander Boyle |
| Caccia | Harold Anthony Caccia |
| C.A.S | Chief of Air Staff |
| Ch.H | Charles Hill |
| C.I.G.S. | Chief of the Imperial General Staff |
| C.N.S | Chief of Naval Staff |
| C.O.S. | Chiefs of Staff |
| Ch. Wh. | Chief Whip |
| D.E. | Viscount David Eccles |
| D.S. | Duncan Edwin Duncan-Sandys |
| de L. | Viscount De L'Isle |
| de la W. | Earl de la Warr |
| F.H | Florence Horsbrugh |
| G. | David Gammans |
| G.B. | Gurney Braithwaite |
| G.Li | Geoffrey Lloyd |
| G.W. | George Ward |
| G.W. | Gerald Wills |
| H. | Lord John Hope |
| >H.A. | Derrick Heathcote-Amory |
| H.B. or H.Br. | Henry Brook |
| H.C. | Harry Crookshank |
| H.M. | Harold Macmillan |
| H.H. | Henry Hopkinson |
| H.W., H.Watk | Harold Watkinson |
| H., Home | Lord Home |
| I. | Baron Ismay |
| I. Kirkp., Kirkp | Ivone Kirkpatrick |
| I.McL. or I.M. | Iain McLeod |
| J.B-C | John Boyd-Carpenter |
| J.F. | John Foster |
| J.P.L.T. | James Purdon Lewes Thomas |
| J.S. | James Stuart |
| J.S.M. | John Scott Maclay |
| J.T. | James Purdon Lewes Thomas |
| K. | Viscount Kilmuir (David Maxwell-Fyfe) |
| Low | Toby Low |
| L.P. | Lord President (of the Council) |
| L.P.S. | Lord Privy Seal |
| LI.G. | Gwilym Lloyd-George |
| M. | Robert Menzies - Australian PM |
| M-B | Reginald Manningham-Buller |
| Munster | 5th Earl of Munster |
| N. | Anthony Nutting |
| O.L. | Oliver Lyttleton |
| O.P. | Osbert Peake |
| P.B.H. | Patrick Buchan-Hepburn |
| P.M. | Prime Minister (Winston Churchill until 5 April 1955, then Anthony Eden |
| P.M.G. | Postmaster-General |
| P.T. | Peter Thorneycroft |
| P.T. | Peter Thorneycroft |
| R. | Marquess of Reading |
| R.A.B. | Richard Austen Butler |
| S. | Lord Strathclyde |
| S. or Sal. | Marquess of Salisbury |
| S.LI. | John Selwyn-Lloyd |
| Sw. | Viscount Swinton |
| T.D. | Thomas Dugdale |
| W. | Lord Woolton |
| W.M. | Walter Monckton |
