Recollections of Geoffrey Douglas Popplewell as a District Commissioner
"Random Recollections of a District Commissioner" by Geoffrey Popplewell covering his service in Tanganyika, 1926-1957. Typescript, 1990.
Dates
- Creation: 1926-1957
Extent
166 pp.
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MSS.Afr.s.2156].
Shelfmark:
MSS.Afr.s.2156
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 3757
Biographical / Historical
Geoffrey Douglas Popplewell was born in 1904 and educated at Merton Court School in Sidcup (King's Scholar); Westminster School (commoner); and Brasenose College, Oxford.
In 1927 he entered the Colonial Service as a cadet and was posted to Tanganyika; he later held the posts of Assistant District Officer (1929), District Officer (1940), and Senior District Officer (1950). Popplewell was the joint author of Notes on the Geography of Tunduru District and Notes on the Fipa .
Other Finding Aids
The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room.
Listed as no. 1107 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
Subject
- Title
- Recollections of Geoffrey Douglas Popplewell as a District Commissioner
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Marion Lowman
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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