Great Britain | Colonial Administrative Service
Organisation
Found in 108 Collections and/or Records:
Collection
Diaries and Letters of Lady Daphne Moore
Diaries and letters home, relating to the service of Lady Daphne Moore's husband, Henry, in Bermuda, Nigeria, Kenya and Sierra Leone, 1922-1947.
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates:
1922-1947
Collection
Diaries and letters of Theodore R. Williams
Diaries (1912-1921) and letters home (1912-1924) as Administrative Officer in Northern Rhodesia.
Extents: 6 Volumes
Dates:
1912-1924
Collection
Diaries of Geoffrey Douglas Popplewell
Diaries kept as an Administrative Officer in Tanganyika, with detailed comments on safaris and other duties, covering Ufipa, Sumbawanga, Tanga, Lushoto, Korogwe, Pangani, Usambara and Mikindani, 1934-1941; with a complete set of transcripts.
Extents: 14 Volumes
Dates:
1934-1941
Collection
Diaries of Sir John Maxwell
Diaries of Sir John Maxwell, relating to his career as a Colonial Administrator in the Gold Coast.
Extents: 5 boxes (22 volumes)
Dates:
1909-1930
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
Single Item
Interview with Sir Frederick Johnson Pedler
Transcript of an interview (1970) with Sir Frederick Johnson Pedler relating to his service in the Colonial Office and in Africa, 1930-1968. Typescript.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1718
Extents: 60 ff.
Dates:
1970
Single Item
Interview with Sir John Stuart Macpherson
Tape and transcript of an interview, 1968, on his career in the Colonial Service in: Malaya (1921-1937); Palestine (1939-1943); the West Indies (1943-1947), and as Governor and Governor-General of Nigeria (1948-1955).
Shelfmark: MSS.Brit.Emp.s.487
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1968
Single Item
Items collected by Charles James Bagenal
Black and white photograph of the Residency, Kigoma (mid 1920s); five illustrated Christmas menu cards with guests signatures (1923-1924 and 1927-1929); watercolour of Kigoma Bay, Lake Tanganyika, from the verandah by Sir Alison Russell (1923).
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.2142
Extents: 7 items
Dates:
1923-1929
Collection
Letter-book of Sir Godfrey Yeatman Lagden
Letter-book as Resident Commissioner in Basutoland.
Extents: 2 volumes, 2 folders
Dates:
1884-1910
Collection
Letters from Sir Graham John Bower (microfilm)
Copies of selected letters of Sir Graham John Bower, 1895-1928. Microfilm.
Extents: 2 Reels
Dates:
1895-1928
Single Item
Letters from Sir Oswald Raynor Arthur whilst in the Falkland Islands
Letters home as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Falkland Islands.
Shelfmark: MSS.Atlan.s.11
Extents: 152 ff.
Dates:
1954-1956
Collection
Memoirs of Ann M. Davidson
"The real paradise: memories of Africa, 1950-1963", an account by Ann M. Davidson of her life as a District Officer's wife in Nyasaland (now Malawi), based on weekly letters to her mother. Bound typescript.
Extents: 2 Volumes
Dates:
[1963?]
Single Item
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
Single Item
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
Single Item
Official diary of Travelling Commissioners in Southern Nigeria
Official diary of three successive Travelling Commissioners in Southern Nigeria, 1900-1903: by W.G. Ambrose (May-November 1900), J.H. Ewart (November 1900-November 1901), and W.R. Reeve-Tucker (December 1901-January 1903).
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1991
Extents: 289 pp.
Dates:
1900-1903
Collection
Papers of Alexander Mair Wilkie
Correspondence, memoranda etc. of service in Kenya, the British Solomon Islands and as British Resident Commissioner in the New Hebrides.
Extents: 4 boxes
Dates:
1935-1969
Single Item
Papers of Algar Ronald W. Robertson
Correspondence and reports relating to Robertson's proposals for a central overseas civil service, with its own pension scheme, for officers serving in the colonies, 1953-1955.
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2230
Extents: 1 file
Dates:
1953-1955
Collection
Papers of Algar R.W. Robertson
Correspondence, tour diaries etc. relating to service in the Gold Cost, British Guiana, Fiji, Trinidad and Tobago, Nigeria.
Extents: 14 volumes and files (5 boxes)
Dates:
1929-1956
Collection
Papers of Arthur Evelyn Weatherhead
Diaries relating to his service in South Africa, Uganda and the Seychelles, with albums of photographs of South Africa and Uganda, and letters, invitations, and photographs relating to his governorship of the Seychelles (1935-1936).
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates:
1902-1936
Collection
Papers of Charles James Bagenal
Correspondence, diary and photographs of C.J. Bagenal comprising typescript copies of his letters home during the Boer War (1900-1902), with handwritten introduction and notes made in 1951; diary (typed at a later date) covering the East African Campaign (1915-1917), and three albums of photographs of Tanganyika, South Africa and Ireland (1914-1941).
Extents: 4 volumes, 1 file
Dates:
1900-1951