Great Britain | Colonial Administrative Service
Organisation
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Single Item
Anecdotes about colonial life in Nigeria collected by Michael C. Atkinson
Humorous anecdotes and tales of colonial life in Nigeria, ca.1910-1950, collected and edited by M.C. Atkinson. Typescript.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.2065
Extents: 2 Volumes
Dates:
[ca. 1910-1950]
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Autobiography of Albert Francis B. Bridges
"So we used to do": autobiography by Bridges relating to his colonial service in Nigeria, 1921-1949, with associated photographs. Typescript.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1881
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1921-1949
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Correspondence of Hugh Middleton Brice-Smith
Letters home from Nigeria, 1901-1919, with other miscellaneous correspondence, 1933-1966.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1845
Extents: 97 ff.
Dates:
1901-1919, 1933-1966
Single Item
Farewell letters to Albert Francis B. Bridges
Farewell letters written by Chiefs and staff to Bridges when he left various stations in Nigeria as an Administrative Officer, and after his retirement (1934-1951).
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1965
Extents: 6 ff.
Dates:
1934-1951
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Memoirs of John Brayne-Baker
Memoirs and text of talks on experiences in the Colonial Administrative Service in Nigeria and the British Cameroons, 1928-1956.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1926
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1928-1956
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Memoirs of Michael C. Atkinson
"The bush out of my soul: two decades in Western Nigeria": memoirs of Michael C. Atkinson relating to his service as an Administrative Officer, 1939-1959. Typescript.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1836
Extents: 168 ff.
Dates:
1939-1959
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Papers of D. Anthony T. Thain
Reports, memoranda, texts of speeches, lecture notes, etc., relating to service as a District Officer in Northern Nigeria and as lecturer at the Institute of Administration, Local Government Wing, Zaria, 1949-1962.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1871
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1949-1962
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Papers of Harry Bernard Cox
Reports, notes and correspondence relating to colonial administrative service in Nigeria: Abakaliki (1933), Ilestra (1941), Ibadan (1943), and in the Department of Commerce and Industries (1950-1952).
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1907
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1933-1952
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Papers of Harry Bernard Cox relating to the Honorable A.C. Nwapa
Papers relating to a visit to the U.K. and Europe by the Honorable A.C. Nwapa (Nigerian Minister of Commerce and Industries) in 1952. Includes itinerary, texts of speeches, minutes of meetings and memoranda.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1892
Extents: 153 ff.
Dates:
1952
Collection
Papers of Ivor F.W. Schofield
Correspondence, reports, photographs, cinefilms, etc., relating to administrative service in Nigeria, and to work as Income Tax Adviser to the Government in Gambia.
Extents: 11 boxes
Dates:
1927-1970
Collection
Papers of James Stewart Smith
Smith's autobiography of service as an Administrative Officer in Cameroon and Eastern Nigeria (1924-1955) entitled "The Last Time", with related reports, papers and letters home.
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates:
1924-1955
Collection
Papers of Neville Barwick
Papers, mainly as District Officer, Eastern Region, Nigeria, including annual reports and handing-over notes as well as day-files for Orlu division; arrangements for the coronation, 1953; State of Emergency, Bende Division, 1958.
Extents: 3 boxes
Dates:
1953-1958
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Papers of Robert Bernard Brooks
Papers as Resident in Calabar Province, Nigeria, including reports on the history of Native Administration, on Owerri Province, native court reports and intelligence reports on the Cameroons campaign (1914-1915).
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1873
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1914-1932
Collection
Papers of Sir John Dalzell Rankine
File on constitutional reform in Zanzibar (1952-1954), while British Resident, and 10 files as Governor of Western Region, Nigeria (1954-1960), including regular despatches to the Colonial Office and personal correspondence about pensions etc.
Extents: 3 boxes (10 files and loose correspondence)
Dates:
1952-1962
Collection
Papers of Sir Selwyn Macgregor Grier
The collection mainly covers the years Grier was in Nigeria, and mostly consists of family letters from Grier to his mother and to his sister "Dorothy" (Mary Lynda Dorothea Grier) who was Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, from 1921-1945. There is also a file of papers relating to Nigera and an album of photographs (mostly dated 1911).
Extents: 4 boxes
Dates:
1884-1957 (bulk 1905-1925)
Collection
Papers of the Reverend Michael Ashley Mann
Reports, memoranda, draft chapters of a book, photographs and printed material, relating to service in Colonial Administration in Southern Nigeria, 1946-1955, and as Vicar of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, 1962-1967.
Extents: 4 boxes
Dates:
1945-1967
Collection
Photograph Albums belonging to Stanhope White
Five captioned photograph albums (1936-1954) spanning the whole of White's career from a Cadet at Cambridge University to his work as a District Officer and, later, Head of Commerce and Industries in Northern Region, Nigeria, and including a trip to the Sudan. Also included are associated papers, pamphlets, articles, literary correspondence and presscuttings, mostly to do with agriculture and commerce. The five photograph albums provide a pictorial counterpart to …
Extents: 4 boxes
Dates:
1936-1954
Single Item
Photographs and papers of Charles John Chaytor
Photographs and a few related papers relating to Charles John Chaytor's service as administrative officer in Northern Nigeria.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.2060
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1912-1932
Single Item
Report and Memorandum by Algar R.W. Robertson
Report on Nigerian proposals for HM Overseas Civil Service, 1953; memorandum on the creation of a Central Pensions Fund based in the U.K., 1955. Typescript.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1791
Extents: 36 ff.
Dates:
1953, 1955
Single Item
Report on the Boki people of Ogoja Province, Nigeria, by E.F.G. Haig
Supplementary Intelligence Report on the Boki of Ikom Division, Ogoja Province, with special reference to the Abo clan, by E. F. G. Haig, District Officer, December 1930, including 10 black and white photographs. Typescript.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.2139
Extents: 56 ff.
Dates:
1930