Pensions, 1907-1908; 1918-1924
folder
Held at the Weston Library
Comprises:
- (fols. 1-5) two letters from D.E. Brodie, Secretary to the British South Africa Company, to Coryndon and a copy of one from Brodie to the Under-Secretary of State about Coryndon's pension rights on transferring from the Company to Swaziland (Eswatini), 21 Dec 1907-11 Apr 1908
- (fol. 6) printed proclamation by Gladstone, South African High Commissioner, that service under the British South Africa Company (BSAC) would be regarded, in certain cases, as service under the Crown as regards pensions, 19 Jun 1914
- (fols. 7-54) several copies of despatches between Coryndon and the Secretary of State, Winston Churchill, about salary revision, the plans to extend the continuous service system and the need for an intercolonial pensions law. See also fols. 102-109 and fols. 118-122, 14 May-29 Sep 1921
- (fols. 55-61) correspondence between Sir James Murison, Attorney-General, Straits Settlement, and Coryndon about a continuous pensions scheme and the pensions debate, 28 Aug-28 Dec 1923
- (fols. 62-141) correspondence about pensions with copies of despatches between the Secretary of State and E.B. Jarvis, Acting Governor; G.F. Archer, Governor of Uganda, and Coryndon. Also includes a draft Pensions Ordinance (fols. 64-65), a circular from Coryndon to all the British Governments in West and East Africa about the draft (fols. 67-68), and the replies (fols. 69-90), 1918-1923
- (fols. 142-143) letter from Sir James Murison to Coryndon with an extract from the Ceylon Minutes on the pension rights of officers transferred to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from some other service under the Crown, 10 Jan 1924
- (fols. 144-146) copy of fols. 95-98.
Dates
- Creation: 1907-1908; 1918-1924
Extent
146 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Afr. s. 633/11, folder 5
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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