Administrative reports as District Commissioner in Elgeyo-Marakwet, Kenya, 1961-1962.
Dates
- Creation: 1961-1962
Extent
1 box
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MSS.Afr.s.2048].
Shelfmark:
MSS.Afr.s.2048
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 1950
Biographical / Historical
J. A. Gardner was born in 1921 and educated at Cuthbert's Preparatory School; Bromsgrove School; and Brasenose College, Oxford. After military service (1941-1945), he entered the Colonial Service in Kenya. He held the posts of District Officer (1946), District Commissioner (c.1961-1962), Senior District Commissioner (1962), and Administrative Secretary (1963-1965).
Other Finding Aids
The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room.
Listed as no. 974 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
Subject
- Title
- Papers of J. A. Gardner
- 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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