Letters from Sir Graham John Bower (microfilm)

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Copies of selected letters of Sir Graham John Bower, 1895-1928. Microfilm.

Dates

Creation: 1895-1928

Extent

2 Reels

Language of Materials

English

Preferred Citation

Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. Micr.Afr.162].

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Micr.Afr.162-163

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 866

Additional Description

Biographical / Historical

Sir Graham John Bower (1848-1933) entered the Royal Navy in 1861. He served continuously until December 1880, at which point he became Private Secretary to Sir Hercules Robinson. In 1884, Bower retired from the Royal Navy (with the rank of Commander) and in the same year became Imperial Secretary to the High Commissioners for South Africa (1884-1897). In 1898, he was appointed to the post of Colonial Secretary of Mauritius, a post he held until his retirement in 1910. Bower was also President of the Grotius Society; a Justice of the Peace in Hampshire, England; and was awarded the KCMG in 1892. Compiled with reference to Who Was Who.

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

Listed as no. 720 in Manuscript Collections of Africana in Rhodes House Library, Oxford, compiled by Louis B. Frewer (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1968).