Photographs, press cuttings and other papers relating to colonial service in Kenya, 1919-1938, 1943-1947, and as Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands, 1939-1943.
Dates
- 1919-1947
Extent
1 box
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 491].
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Shelfmark:
MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 491
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 3127
Biographical / Historical
William Sydney Marchant (1894-1953) worked as Assistant District Commissioner, East Africa Protectorate, from 1919. In 1926 he was appointed District Officer, Kenya, in 1935 Deputy Provincial Commissioner and Assistant Secretary, Zanzibar, and in 1937 Deputy Provincial Commissioner, Tanganyika Territory. In 1939 he was appointed Resident Commissioner, the British Solomon Islands Protectorate.
Other Finding Aids
Listed as no. 597 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The papers were donated to the library by Mrs. Marjorie D. Marchant through the Oxford Colonial Archives Project in April 1985.
- 20th century
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration
- Great Britain | Colonial Administrative Service
- Kenya -- Description and travel -- Views
- Kenya -- History -- 1895-1963
- Marchant | William Sydney | 1894-1953 | Colonial Administrator
- Solomon Islands -- Description and travel -- Views
- Solomon Islands -- History -- 20th century
- Title
- Papers of William Sydney Marchant
- 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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Weston Library
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Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk