Transcript of an interview with Lady Violet Grace Bourdillon
Single Item
MSS.Brit.Emp.s.475
Transcript of an interview with Lady Violet Grace Bourdillon on life in India, Iraq, Ceylon, Uganda, Nigeria, 1908-1940.
Dates
- 1908-1940
Extent
38 ff.
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
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Shelfmark:
MSS.Brit.Emp.s.475
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 852
Biographical / Historical
Violet Grace (1886-1979) was the daughter of the Reverend Henry Godwin Billinghurst of Lynch, Sussex, England. In 1909 she married Sir Bernard Henry Bourdillon (1883-1948), colonial governor.
Other Finding Aids
The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room.
Listed as no. 566 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
Listed as no. 566 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.
- 20th century
- Bourdillon | Violet Grace | 1886-1979 | nee Billinghurst, wife of Sir Bernard Henry Bourdillon
- Colonial administrators' spouses -- Interviews
- India -- Description and travel
- Iraq -- Description and travel
- Nigeria -- Description and travel
- Sri Lanka -- Description and travel
- Uganda -- Description and travel
- Title
- Transcript of an interview with Lady Violet Grace Bourdillon
- 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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specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk