Report and Memorandum by Algar R.W. Robertson

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MSS.Afr.s.1791

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Report on Nigerian proposals for HM Overseas Civil Service, 1953; memorandum on the creation of a Central Pensions Fund based in the U.K., 1955. Typescript.

Dates

Creation: 1953, 1955

Extent

36 ff.

Language of Materials

English

Preferred Citation

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Shelfmark:

MSS.Afr.s.1791

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 3967

Additional Description

Biographical / Historical

Algar Ronald Ward Robertson (1902-1975) worked as Assistant Treasurer, Gold Coast, 1929-1936 and Deputy Treasurer, British Guiana, 1936-1939. He was Financial Secretary in Fiji, 1940-1948, Trinidad and Tobago, 1948-1953, Nigeria, 1953-1954, and the Federation of Nigeria, 1954-1956. Awarded the CBE, 1948 and CMG, 1953.

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The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room.

Listed as no. 510 in Manuscript Collections (excluding Africana) in Rhodes House Library, Oxford, Supplement, compiled by Louis B. Frewer (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1971).