Transcript of an interview with Lady Violet Grace Bourdillon
Transcript of an interview with Lady Violet Grace Bourdillon on life in India, Iraq, Ceylon, Uganda, Nigeria, 1908-1940.
Dates
- Creation: 1908-1940
Extent
38 ff.
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MSS.Brit.Emp.s.475].
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).
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
- 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
Weston Library
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