Box 606766218
Container
Contains 11 Results:
Biographical material, 1877-1957
File
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 209
See also MSS. Afr. s. 214 for additional biographical material.
Extents: 6 folders
Dates:
1877-1957
'Commendatory despatches' and Transvaal (Limpopo, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, North West) reports, 1881-1884
Folder
Comprises:
(fols. 1-21) 'Commendatory despatches for my services in the Transvaal from Sir G[eorge] Hudson, Sir W[illiam] Bellairs, Sir B[rampton] Gurdon', 4 Aug 1881-13 Jun 1884
(item 1) Royal Commission for the Settlement of the Affairs of the Transvaal - Reports (74 pp.), 1882.
Extents: 1 folder
Dates:
1881-1884
Diaries (typed copies), 1883-1957
Folder
Comprises:
(fols. 1-89) folder inscribed 'Miss Lagden's papers', containing typed copy of Lagden's diary and notes (MSS Afr. s. 151-152) of his walk 'from Cape Coast Castle to Coomassie in 1883, shooting and collecting birds and insects' (MSS. Afr. s. 209, folder 5, fol. 1); also, cuttings that include a contemporary account in the European Mail; later cuttings are concerned...
Extents: 1 folder
Dates:
1883-1957
Biographical material, 5 May 1892-Aug 1934
Folder
Comprises:
(fols. 1-48) 'Papers relating to the beginning of my life': manuscript notes, mostly by Lagden but some by his son Ronald, and including; the draft of a letter from Lagden to his son Reginald when he went to India in 1919; also, draft notes dictated at the request of David Pollock who had been asked by The Times to prepare an obituary notice (MSS. Afr. s. 214, folder...
Extents: 1 folder
Dates:
5 May 1892-Aug 1934
Addresses by Lagden about the British Empire, the first given at the Annual General Meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute, 3 May 1922 and n.d.
Folder
Extents: 29 Leaves
Dates:
3 May 1922 and n.d.
Correspondence connected with appointments to various posts, or commending Lagden's work, 4 Jun 1877-12 Jul 1923
Item
Correspondents include the following:
the Controller of Savings Bank Department, General Post Office
Sir Evelyn Wood
Sir Redvers Buller
Sir Owen Lanyon
Edward L. Lawson
Sir Brampton Gurdon
Lord Wolseley
Colonel Edwards
R.L. Antrobus
Graham Bower
...
Extents: 40 Leaves
Dates:
4 Jun 1877-12 Jul 1923
Folder of papers relating to appointments and Commissions, including copies of official Gazettes 1881-1906 (Transvaal (Limpopo, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, North West), Gold Coast (Ghana), South Africa), 8 Apr 1878-12 Jan 1906
Item
Extents: 157 Leaves
Dates:
8 Apr 1878-12 Jan 1906
'The Statutes of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George', 1881
Item
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
1881
Papers concerning honours conferred on Lagden, including his own account of receiving the KBE (Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire) from the King in 1927, 'Statutes of the Most Distinguished Order of the British Empire', and a list of his medals, 1 Jan 1894-14 Nov 1927
Item
57 leaves and one item.
Extents: 57 Leaves
Dates:
1 Jan 1894-14 Nov 1927