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Additional papers of Sir Cecil Clementi

Official and personal papers of Sir Cecil Clementi (1875-1947), colonial governor, with papers of his wife, Lady Penelope Clementi (1889–1970) and other family members.
Extents: 17.0 Linear metres (107 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1871-2013
Single Item

Album of Photographs belonging to Logie Weir Wilson

Album of photographs relating to Logie Weir Wilson's service as Chief Commissioner, Sierra Leone, 1948-1949. Included are photographs of: Logie Wilson and his wife Gladys (d 1984); people who worked for the Wilsons; local people; people during Ramadan; the Chief Commissioner's House; Government House in Freetown, and the District Commissioner's house (including photographs of the District Commissioner, Dick Cox).
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.r.222
Extents: 15 ff.
Dates: 1948-1949
Single Item

Anecdotes about colonial life in Nigeria collected by Michael C. Atkinson

Humorous anecdotes and tales of colonial life in Nigeria, ca.1910-1950, collected and edited by M.C. Atkinson. Typescript.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.2065
Extents: 2 Volumes
Dates: [ca. 1910-1950]
Collection

Archive of Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron Caradon

Papers of Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron Caradon, as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Cyprus (1957-60)
Extents: 5.6 Linear metres (48 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1957-60
Collection

Archive of Sir Edwin Arrowsmith

Archive of Sir Edwin Arrowsmith (1909-92) relating to his work for the Colonial Administrative Service. With a small amount of his papers as Director of the Overseas Development Resettlement Bureau.
Extents: 0.7 Linear metres (7 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1932-65, 1980
Collection

Archive of Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams and Elizabeth Main

Papers of colonial governor Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams (1858-1920) and of his daughter, Elizabeth Main (1918-2010).
Extents: 1.05 Linear metres (7 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1880-2001
Single Item

Autobiography of Albert Francis B. Bridges

"So we used to do": autobiography by Bridges relating to his colonial service in Nigeria, 1921-1949, with associated photographs. Typescript.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1881
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1921-1949
Collection

Cape Colony Letters

Letters written from Cape Colony. Correspondents include Sir Henry Barkly, Robert Brooke, Sir William Eyre, George Macartney, Sir Rawson William Rawson and Sir Richard Southey. Also included are 81 letters from Robert White to his uncle, Robert Godlonton, both partners in the firm of Godlonton, White & Co., printers, publishers and stationers of Graham's Town.
Extents: 2 Volumes
Dates: 1795-1880
Single Item

Commission of Enquiry Report, with observations by Frederick Dealtry Lugard, Baron Lugard of Abinger

"Report of the Commission of Enquiry into the disturbances in Abeokuta province" (1918), with observations by Lord Lugard on various questions raised (1919). Typescript.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1481
Extents: 53 ff.
Dates: 1918-1919
Collection

Correspondence and papers of Arthur Casswell Spooner

Correspondence, papers, diaries and photographs of Arthur Casswell Spooner (1906-96), Colonial Service Administrative Cadet, later Commissioner of Labour Department, in the Gold Coast (1928-52).
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (12 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1928-95
Single Item

Correspondence of Hugh Middleton Brice-Smith

Letters home from Nigeria, 1901-1919, with other miscellaneous correspondence, 1933-1966.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1845
Extents: 97 ff.
Dates: 1901-1919, 1933-1966
Collection

Correspondence of Sir G. J. Bower, with a Narrative about the Jameson Raid and the South African War

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1897-1898, 1926-1932 (15 items), and Bower's narrative written in 1900 of events leading to the Jameson raid and the South African war (1 volume).
Extents: 15 items, 1 volume
Dates: 1897-1898, 1900, 1926-1932
Collection

Diaries and Letters of Lady Daphne Moore

Diaries and letters home, relating to the service of Lady Daphne Moore's husband, Henry, in Bermuda, Nigeria, Kenya and Sierra Leone, 1922-1947.
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates: 1922-1947
Collection

Diaries and letters of Theodore R. Williams

Diaries (1912-1921) and letters home (1912-1924) as Administrative Officer in Northern Rhodesia.
Extents: 6 Volumes
Dates: 1912-1924
Collection

Diaries of Geoffrey Douglas Popplewell

Diaries kept as an Administrative Officer in Tanganyika, with detailed comments on safaris and other duties, covering Ufipa, Sumbawanga, Tanga, Lushoto, Korogwe, Pangani, Usambara and Mikindani, 1934-1941; with a complete set of transcripts.
Extents: 14 Volumes
Dates: 1934-1941
Collection

Diaries of Sir John Maxwell

Diaries of Sir John Maxwell, relating to his career as a Colonial Administrator in the Gold Coast.
Extents: 5 boxes (22 volumes)
Dates: 1909-1930
Single Item

Farewell letters to Albert Francis B. Bridges

Farewell letters written by Chiefs and staff to Bridges when he left various stations in Nigeria as an Administrative Officer, and after his retirement (1934-1951).
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1965
Extents: 6 ff.
Dates: 1934-1951
Single Item

Interview with Sir Frederick Johnson Pedler

Transcript of an interview (1970) with Sir Frederick Johnson Pedler relating to his service in the Colonial Office and in Africa, 1930-1968. Typescript.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1718
Extents: 60 ff.
Dates: 1970
Single Item

Interview with Sir John Stuart Macpherson

Tape and transcript of an interview, 1968, on his career in the Colonial Service in: Malaya (1921-1937); Palestine (1939-1943); the West Indies (1943-1947), and as Governor and Governor-General of Nigeria (1948-1955).
Shelfmark: MSS.Brit.Emp.s.487
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1968
Single Item

Items collected by Charles James Bagenal

Black and white photograph of the Residency, Kigoma (mid 1920s); five illustrated Christmas menu cards with guests signatures (1923-1924 and 1927-1929); watercolour of Kigoma Bay, Lake Tanganyika, from the verandah by Sir Alison Russell (1923).
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.2142
Extents: 7 items
Dates: 1923-1929

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20th century 86
Nigeria -- Officials and employees 20
Colonial administrators 19
Colonial administrators -- Nigeria 13
19th century 12
Colonial administrators -- Ghana 7
Colonial administrators -- Tanganyika 7
Ghana -- Officials and employees 7
Tanganyika -- Officials and employees 7
Kenya -- Officials and employees 6
Colonial administrators -- Africa 5
Africa -- Officials and employees 4
Guyana -- Officials and employees 4
Cameroon -- Officials and employees 3
Colonial administrators -- South Africa 3
Colonial administrators -- Uganda 3
Governors 3
South Africa -- Officials and employees 3
Uganda -- Officials and employees 3
21st century 2
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Africa -- Pictorial works 2
Autobiographies 2
Botswana 2
Colonial administrators -- -- -- Tanzania -- Diaries 2
Colonial administrators -- Correspondence 2
Colonial administrators -- Kenya 2
Colonial administrators -- Lesotho 2
Colonial administrators -- Nigeria, Northern 2
Colonial administrators -- Zambia 2
Cyprus 2
Ghana -- Pictorial works 2
Guyana -- Politics and government -- 20th century 2
Hong Kong (China) -- Politics and government -- 20th century 2
Jamaica -- Officials and employees 2
Lesotho -- Officials and employees 2
Malawi -- Politics and government -- 20th century 2
Malaya -- Politics and government -- 20th century 2
Nigeria, Eastern -- Officials and employees 2
Nigeria, Northern -- Officials and employees 2
Palestine -- Officials and employees 2
Photographs 2
Reminiscences 2
South African War, 1899-1902 -- Personal narratives 2
Tanzania -- Description and travel 2
Tanzania -- Politics and government -- 20th century 2
Trinidad and Tobago -- Officials and employees 2
Zambia -- Officials and employees 2
18th century 1
Abeokuta (Nigeria) 1
Africa -- Description and travel 1
Africa, East 1
Agricultural industries -- Nigeria 1
Agriculture -- Africa 1
Agriculture -- Ghana -- Congresses and conventions 1
Agriculture -- Tanzania 1
Animals -- Africa 1
Asia -- Description and travel 1
Asia -- Pictorial works 1
Australia 1
Autobiographies -- Ghana 1
Autobiographies -- Malawi 1
Barotseland (Zambia) 1
Belize -- Officials and employees 1
Bermuda -- Officials and employees 1
Boki (African people) 1
British Virgin Islands -- Officials and employees -- Salaries, etc. 1
Calabar (Nigeria) -- Officials and employees 1
Cameroon -- Description and travel 1
Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Officials and employees 1
Ceylon -- Officials and employees 1
Civil service -- Nigeria, Eastern -- Colonies 1
Clubs -- England -- Oxford -- Photographs 1
Colonial Administrators -- Sierra Leone -- Photographs 1
Colonial administrator -- Nigeria 1
Colonial administrators -- Africa -- Interviews 1
Colonial administrators -- British Virgin Islands 1
Colonial administrators -- Cameroon 1
Colonial administrators -- Cameroon -- Autobiographies 1
Colonial administrators -- Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Correspondence 1
Colonial administrators -- England -- Oxford -- Study and teaching 1
Colonial administrators -- Ghana -- Diaries 1
Colonial administrators -- Interviews 1
Colonial administrators -- Nigeria -- Autobiographies 1
Colonial administrators -- Nigeria -- Correspondence 1
Colonial administrators -- Nigeria -- Photographs 1
Colonial administrators -- Nigeria, Eastern 1
Colonial administrators -- Nigeria, Eastern -- Autobiographies 1
Colonial administrators -- Nigeria, Southern 1
Colonial administrators -- Seychelles -- Diaries 1
Colonial administrators -- South Africa -- Diaries 1
Colonial administrators -- Tanzania -- Correspondence 1
Colonial administrators -- Uganda -- Diaries 1
Colonial administrators' spouses -- Africa -- Correspondence 1
Colonial administrators' spouses -- Africa -- Diaries 1
Colonial administrators' spouses -- Bermuda -- Correspondence 1
Colonial administrators' spouses -- Bermuda -- Diaries 1
Colonial administrators' spouses -- Ghana 1
Colonial administrators' spouses -- Malawi 1
Colonial administrators' spouses -- Nigeria, Northern 1
Cyprus -- Officials and employees 1
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Indexed names
Lugard | Frederick John Dealtry | 1858-1945 | Baron Lugard of Abinger | colonial administrator, soldier and author 3
University of Oxford | Development Records Project 3
Atkinson | Michael C | b 1917 | Colonial Administrator 2
Bagenal | Charles James | 1877-1955 | Soldier and Colonial Administrator 2
Bower | Sir | Graham John | 1848-1933 | Knight | Colonial Administrator 2
Bridges | Albert Francis B | fl 1921-1949 | Colonial Administrator 2
Buxton | Clarence Edward Victor | 1892-1967 | Colonial Administrator 2
Church Missionary Society 2
Clementi | Sir | Cecil | 1875-1947 | Knight | colonial governor 2
Coryndon | Sir | Robert Thorne | 1870-1925 | Knight | Colonial Administrator 2
Cox | Harry Bernard | 1906-1989 | Colonial Administrator 2
Lagden | Godfrey Yeatman | 1851-1934 | Sir | Knight Colonial Administrator 2
Popplewell | Geoffrey Douglas | b 1904 | District Officer Colonial Government 2
Robertson | Algar Ronald | 1902-1975 | Colonial Administrator 2
Walden | Stanley Arthur | 1905-1980 | Colonial Administrator 2
Adams | Sir | Hamilton John Goold- | 1858-1920 | Knight | colonial governor 1
African Research Survey 1
Aglen | E F | fl 1935 1
Arrowsmith | Sir | Edwin Porter | 1909-1992 | Knight | colonial governor 1
Barkly | Henry | 1815-1898 | Sir | Knight Colonial Governor 1
∨ more
Barwick | Neville | b 1916 | Colonial Administrator 1
Best | Oswald Herbert | fl 1920-1930 | Colonial Administrator 1
Bower | Graham John | 1848-1933 | Sir | Knight Colonial Administrator 1
Brayne-Baker | John | 1905-1997 | Colonial Administrator 1
Brice-Smith | Hugh Middleton | b 1884 | Colonial Administrator 1
Bridges | William Maclaren | b 1898 | Colonial Administrator 1
British West Charterland Company Limited 1
Brooke | Robert | d 1802 | Governor of St Helena 1
Brooke-Anderson | Amy | fl 1920-1926 | wife of Colonel Eric L Brooke-Anderson 1
Brooke-Anderson | Eric L | fl 1920-1926 | Colonel 1
Brooks | Robert Bernard | fl 1914-1932 | Colonial Administrator 1
Bryant | Herbert Collingwood A | b 1908 | Colonial Administrator 1
Caldecott | Andrew | 1884-1951 | Sir | Knight Governor General of Ceylon 1
Campbell | Archibald | 1914-1994 | Colonial Administrator 1
Campbell | Peggy Phyllis | fl 1939-1941 | wife of Archibald Campbell Colonial Administrator 1
Carrington | Mary Townsend | 1892-1980 | nee Eyres 1
Chaytor | Charles John | fl 1912-1932 | Colonial Administrator 1
Clementi | Augusta Mildred Warren | 1878-1969 | nee Graham 1
Clementi | Cecily Joyce | b 1915 1
Clementi | Cresswell Montagu | 1918-1981 | Air Vice-Marshal 1
Clementi | Dione Rose | 1914-2010 | lecturer in history 1
Clementi | Isabel | 1850–1930 | nee Collard 1
Clementi | Lockhart | 1881-after 1917 | Captain 1
Clementi | Marie Penelope Rose | 1889–1970 | nee Eyres | known as Penelope Clementi 1
Clementi | Montagu | 1839-1919 | Colonel, Judge Advocate-General in India 1
Clementi | Winifred Dorothy | d 1966 | nee Hobson | known as Dorothy Clementi 1
Coriat | - | fl 1920-1960 | wife of Percy Coriat, Colonial administrator 1
Coriat | Percy | fl 1920-1960 | Colonial administrator 1
Coryndon | Phyllis Mary | fl 1903-1947 | Lady | nee Worthington, wife of Sir Robert Thorne Coryndon 1
Culwick | Arthur Theodore | b 1905 | Colonial Administrator 1
Davidson | Ann M | fl 1950-1963 | wife of Colonial Administrator 1
Davies | Arthur W | b 1915 | Colonial Administrator 1
Duncan-Johnstone | Angus Colin | b 1889 | Colonial Administrator 1
Dutton | Eric Aldhelm Torlogh | 1895-1973 | Colonial Administrator 1
East African Estates Limited 1
Eyre | William | 1805-1859 | Sir | Knight Major General 1
Eyres | Cresswell John | 1862-1949 | Admiral 1
Eyres | Rose Nankivell | 1863-1940 | nee Townsend 1
Fleming | J T | b 1924 | Barrister Colonial Administrator 1
Foot | Florence Sylvia | d 1985 | wife of Hugh Mackintosh Foot 1
Foot | Hugh Mackintosh | 1907-1990 | Baron Caradon | colonial administrator and diplomat 1
Gardner | J A | b 1921 | Administrator Kenyan Government 1
Gass | Sir | Michael David I | b 1916 | Knight | Colonial Administrator 1
Gedge | Ernest | 1862-1935 | colonial administrator 1
Gibbs | George Howard | 1889-1969 | Colonial Administrator 1
Goddard | Thomas Nelson | b 1889 | Colonial Administrator Falkland Islands Sierra Leone 1
Great Britain | Commission on Higher Education in East Africa and the Sudan 1
Great Britain | High Commission for Western Pacific Islands 1
Grier | Selwyn | 1878-1946 | Sir | Knight Colonial Administrator 1
Grigg | Edward William Macleay | 1879-1955 | 1st Baron Altrincham | politician 1
Haig | E F G | fl 1930 | Colonial Administrator 1
Hailey | William Malcolm | 1872-1969 | 1st Baron Hailey 1
Harcourt | Henry Newton | b 1906 | Colonial Administrator 1
Hawkesworth | Edward Gerald | b 1897 | Sir | Colonial Administrator 1
Hibbert | Francis Dennis | 1906-1975 | Colonial Administrator 1
Hollis | Rosemary | fl 1951-1959 | wife of Colonial Administrator 1
Imperial British East Africa Company 1
Ingrams | William Harold | 1897-1973 | Colonial Administrator Author 1
Institute of Administration (Zaria) 1
Jackson | Frederick John | 1860-1929 | Knight, explorer, naturalist and administrator 1
Kilby | Walter Wheatly | fl 1928-1931 | Colonial Administrator 1
Kutchuk | Fazil | 1906-1984 | Vice President of Cyprus 1
Lethem | Sir | Gordon James | 1886-1962 | Knight | Colonial Governor 1
Macartney | George | 1737-1806 | 1st Earl Macartney | diplomatist and colonial governor 1
Macpherson | John Stuart | 1898-1971 | Sir | Knight Colonial Governor 1
Main | Elizabeth Mary | 1918-2010 | daughter of Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams 1
Malcolm | Donald Wingfield | b 1907 | colonial administrator 1
Mann | Michael Ashley | b 1924 | Dean of Windsor 1
Marchant | P J C | b 1923 | District Officer Colonial Service Tanzania 1
Maxwell | Sir | John | 1875-1946 | Knight | Colonial Administrator 1
Merris | John | 1877-1942 | formerly Clementi | Colonel 1
Montagu | John | 1797-1853 | Colonial Administrator 1
Moore | Lady | Daphne | 1900-1990 | wife of Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore Colonial Administrator 1
Moore | Sir | Henry Monck-Mason | 1887-1964 | Colonial Administrator 1
Mouskos | Michael | Makarios III | 1913–1977 | Greek Orthodox Archbishop and President of Cyprus 1
Newton | William | d 1915 | Knight Colonial Administrator 1
Nwapa | A C | fl 1952 | Nigerian Minister of Commerce and Industries 1
O'Regan | John William Hamilton | b 1913 | Colonial Administrator 1
Ovenell | Alwin Isabel | 1923-2010 | nee Clementi 1
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Language
Arabic 1
Chinese 1
French 1
German 1
Greek, Modern (1453-) 1
Italian 1
Japanese 1
Latin 1
Pushto; Pashto 1
Turkish 1