Cabinet Secretaries' notebooks (CAB 195/16): 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.H. | Anthony Head |
| A.J. | Aubrey Jones |
| A.L.B.. | Alan Lennox-Boyd |
| Alp. or Alport | Cuthbert 'Cub' Alport |
| A.N. | Allan Noble |
| Att. G. | Attorney General |
| B.C. or J.B.C | John Boyd-Carpenter |
| Beeley | Harold Beeley |
| Birch or N.B. | Nigel Birch |
| C., Carr. or Carrington | Lord Carrington |
| C.A.S | Chief of Air Staff |
| C. H. or Ch. H. or Ch. Hill | 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 |
| C. S. | Christopher Soames |
| Ch. Wh. | Chief Whip |
| D.E. | David Eccles |
| D.S. | Duncan Edwin Duncan-Sandys |
| D.W.S. or W.S. | Derek Walker-Smith |
| D.V. or Vosper | Dennis Vosper |
| E. H. | Edward Heath |
| G. | David Gammans |
| E. M. | Ernest Marples |
| G.Li | Geoffrey Lloyd |
| G.W. | George Ward |
| G.W. | Gerald Wills |
| H. | Lord Home |
| H.A. | Derrick Heathcote-Amory |
| Hail. | Lord Hailsham |
| H.B. or H.Br. | Henry Brook |
| H.M. | Harold Macmillan (P.M. from 9 January 1957) |
| H.M. | Hugh Molson |
| H.W. | Harold Watkinson |
| I.M. | Iain MacLeod |
| J.E.S. | Jocelyn Simons |
| J.H. | John Hare |
| J.S. | James Stuart |
| J.M. | John Maclay |
| K. | Viscount Kilmuir (David Maxwell-Fyfe) |
| L.P. | Lord President (of the Council) |
| L.P.S. | Lord Privy Seal |
| LI.G. | Gwilym Lloyd-George |
| Lloyd or Ll. | Geoffrey Lloyd |
| M. | Lord Mills |
| O.Ewing | Ian Orr-Ewing |
| P. or Perth | Earl of Perth |
| P.M. | Prime Minister (Anthony Eden to 9 January, Harold Macmillan from 10 January) |
| P.M.G. | Postmaster-General |
| Profu. | John Profumo |
| P.T. | Peter Thorneycroft |
| R.A.B. | Richard Austen 'Rab' Butler |
| R.C. or R.Carr | Robert Carr |
| R.M. | Reginald Maudling |
| R.T. | Robin Turton |
| S., Str. or Strathc. | Lord Strathclyde (T.D. Galbraith) |
| S.Ll. | John Selwyn-Lloyd |
| Soames | Christopher Soames |
| V.M. or V-M. | John Vaughan-Morgan |
| W.D. | William Dickson |
| W.M. | Walter Monckton |
| W.S. | Derek Walker-Smith |
