Photographs relating to the work of Terence Francis Gethin Hopkins
Photographs of Nigeria and Gambia, some captioned, relating to colonial administrative service in West Africa (mostly from the 1930s).
Dates
- Creation: 1926-1930s
Extent
489 items
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MSS.Afr.s.1665].
Shelfmark:
MSS.Afr.s.1665
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 2470
Biographical / Historical
Terence Francis Gethin Hopkins was born in 1902 and educated at Epsom College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He accepted a commission in the Gloucestershire regiment in 1922, and in 1926 was seconded to the Gold Coast regiment of the Royal West African Frontier Force (1926-1929).
In 1930, Hopkins entered the Colonial Administrative Service as a cadet in Nigeria. After spending the years 1935 to 1939 on secondment to Gambia, he returned to Nigeria, becoming Senior District Officer in 1949, and Resident of Northern Nigeria in 1955 (-1958).
Other Finding Aids
The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room.
Listed as no. 1223 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
- Title
- Photographs relating to the work of Terence Francis Gethin Hopkins
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Marion Lowman
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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