Box 606766218
Container
Contains 11 Results:
Folder
'Record of my Services': entries in Who's Who, Debrett, Dod's Peerage and other works of reference, and copies of articles and notes about Lagden's career, 1902-1932
Collection:
Archive of Sir Godfrey Yeatman Lagden
Found in:
Biographical material
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 209, folder 5
Extents: 46 Leaves
Dates:
1902-1932
File
Biographical material, 1877-1957
See also MSS. Afr. s. 214 for additional biographical material.
Collection:
Archive of Sir Godfrey Yeatman Lagden
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 209
Extents: 6 folders
Dates:
1877-1957
Folder
Appointments, commissions, and honours, 1877-1927
Collection:
Archive of Sir Godfrey Yeatman Lagden
Found in:
Biographical material
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 209, folder 1
Extents: 1 folder
Dates:
1877-1927
Folder
'Commendatory despatches' and Transvaal (Limpopo, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, North West) reports, 1881-1884
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.
Collection:
Archive of Sir Godfrey Yeatman Lagden
Found in:
Biographical material
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 209, folder 2
Extents: 1 folder
Dates:
1881-1884
Folder
Diaries (typed copies), 1883-1957
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…
Collection:
Archive of Sir Godfrey Yeatman Lagden
Found in:
Biographical material
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 209, folder 3
Extents: 1 folder
Dates:
1883-1957
Folder
Biographical material, 5 May 1892-Aug 1934
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…
Collection:
Archive of Sir Godfrey Yeatman Lagden
Found in:
Biographical material
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 209, folder 4
Extents: 1 folder
Dates:
5 May 1892-Aug 1934
Item
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
Collection:
Archive of Sir Godfrey Yeatman Lagden
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 209, folder 1, fols. 41-197
Extents: 157 Leaves
Dates:
8 Apr 1878-12 Jan 1906
Item
'The Statutes of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George', 1881
Collection:
Archive of Sir Godfrey Yeatman Lagden
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 209, folder 1, item 1
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
1881
Item
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
57 leaves and one item.
Collection:
Archive of Sir Godfrey Yeatman Lagden
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 209, folder 1, fols. 198-254 and item 2
Extents: 57 Leaves
Dates:
1 Jan 1894-14 Nov 1927
Folder
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.
Collection:
Archive of Sir Godfrey Yeatman Lagden
Found in:
Biographical material
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 209, folder 6
Extents: 29 Leaves
Dates:
3 May 1922 and n.d.
Item
Correspondence connected with appointments to various posts, or commending Lagden's work, 4 Jun 1877-12 Jul 1923
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
…
Collection:
Archive of Sir Godfrey Yeatman Lagden
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 209, folder 1, fols. 1-40
Extents: 40 Leaves
Dates:
4 Jun 1877-12 Jul 1923