Papers of William Sewell de Guibe Rankin, relating to UNESCO
Single Item
MSS.Afr.s.1994
Reminiscences, notes, letters, reports, maps and printed material relating to his service with UNESCO in Liberia and Ethiopia.
Dates
- 1952-1958
Extent
1 box
Language of Materials
English
Preferred Citation
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Shelfmark:
MSS.Afr.s.1994
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 3844
Biographical / Historical
William Sewell de Guibe Rankin was born in 1905 and educated at Westminster, and Christ Church, Oxford. In 1928 he entered the Colonial Service as an Education Officer in Nigeria. During the 1950s he worked for UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in Liberia and Ethiopia.
Other Finding Aids
The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room.
Listed as no. 826 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
Listed as no. 826 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
- Title
- Papers of William Sewell de Guibe Rankin, relating to UNESCO
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Marion Lowman
- Language of description
- English
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