Paper given by Kittermaster on the Somalis and other tribes of British Somaliland, c1930.
Dates
- Creation: c1930
Extent
1 folder
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MSS. Afr. s. 2341].
Shelfmark:
MSS. Afr. s. 2341
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 2802
Biographical / Historical
Sir Harold Baxter Kittermaster (1879-1939), KCMG (1936), KBE (1928), CMG (1926), OBE (1918) worked in the Transvaal Education Department, 1903-1907. He became Assistant District Commissioner, East Africa Protectorate, 1908 and served as District Commissioner and Officer-in-Charge, Northern Frontier District, 1915-1919. He was Senior Assistant Secretary, 1920 and Secretary to the Administration, 1921, Somaliland Protectorate. He was Governor of the Somaliland Protectorate, 1926-1931 and of British Honduras, 1932-1934. From 1934 he served as Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Nyasaland Protectorate. In 1923 he married Winifred Elsie Rotherham, with whom he had one son and one daughter.
Other Finding Aids
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
The paper was donated by Miss H. Kittermaster (daughter), through the good offices of R.R. Darlington, on 5th May 2001.
- Title
- Papers of Sir Harold Kittermaster
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Paul Davidson
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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