| Description | This series consists of papers relating to the commercial and business interests and personal financial situation of Oswald Mosley and his family, including papers relating to his first wife Cynthia Mosley. It comprises extensive papers relating to Mosley's investments in stocks and shares, before, during and after the 1939-1945 war, and to his settlement trusts administered by the Public Trustee. It also contains a certain amount of material recording details of his income and expenditure, although not for the entire period covered by these papers.
The series contains papers relating to Mosley's commercial interests. These include an extensive sequence of material documenting the efforts made by others, including his second wife Diana Mosley, on his behalf, to secure franchises for commercial radio stations outside the United Kingdom during the late 1930s, including Sark in the Channel Islands, and in Germany, and a small amount of material relating to the publishing companies he established after the Second World War.
The series also contains papers relating to the purchase and administration of property acquired by Mosley immediately after the war, which were intended to provide him with a source of income through farming. Most of this material relates to the Crowood estate at Ramsbury, Wiltshire, where Mosley lived between about 1945 and 1951, but there are also references to other properties, including Crux Easton, where Oswald and Diana Mosley lived between 1944 and 1945. |