Account by Henry Townsend Bourdillon of his service at the Colonial Office
Single Item
MSS.Brit.Emp.s.462
"British and French colonial policy": original manuscript and typed corrected copy of an account relating to service as assistant under-secretary of state at the Colonial Office, 1954-1959.
Dates
- 1954-1959
Extent
17 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
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Shelfmark:
MSS.Brit.Emp.s.462
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 849
Biographical / Historical
Henry Townsend Bourdillon (1913-1991), CMG (1952), was educated at Rugby School, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In 1937 he was appointed assistant principal at the Colonial Office; he became acting principal in 1940. For a short period during the early 1940s, Bourdillon was lent to the Foreign Office (1942), the Cabinet Office (1943), and the Ministry of Production (1944). He returned to the Colonial Office in 1944 where he later held the posts of assistant secretary (1947-1954) and assistant undersecretary of state (1954-1959). In 1959 he again left the Colonial Office for a short time when he was appointed Deputy UK Commissioner for Singapore; he returned to the Colonial Office in 1961. In 1962, Bourdillon was appointed undersecretary at the Ministry of Education (1962-1964) and in 1964 became assistant undersecretary of state at the Department of Education and Science (1964-1973).
Other Finding Aids
The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room.
Listed as no. 565 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
Listed as no. 565 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
Custodial History
Deposited with the Oxford Development Records Project.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was transferred to the library from the Oxford Development Records Project.
- Title
- Account by Henry Townsend Bourdillon of his service at the Colonial Office
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Marion Lowman
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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Weston Library
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Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
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