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Papers of Thomas Brooke Benjamin, FRS
Collection
The collection contains correspondence, mainly scientific, lecture notes, drafts of articles, and mathematical calculations, most concerning fluid dynamics. Also included are press cuttings about Benjamin, letters of congratulations on his appointment to the Sedleian chair, and material relating to the numerous societies, associations, etc. that he was involved with. The collection also contains material relating to his non-scientific interests, especially music and poetry
Extents: 14 boxes
Dates:
1947-1995
Papers of Thomas Hudson
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Ind. Ocn. t. 6
Plans of coffee estates in Ceylon, of the Polwatte Mills, and coffee store, Colombo, 1865, with 4 photographs.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
[1865]
Papers of Thomas Russell Park relating to the Gold Coast
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 13110
Papers of Thomas Russell Park relating to the Gold Coast.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1939-1942
Papers of Tim Hardy
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Ind. Ocn. s. 353
Papers relating to security problems and Communist insurgency, Sarawak, [1960s].
Extents: 4 Files
Dates:
1962-1979
Papers of Trafford Smith
Collection
Letters, programmes of tours, texts of talks and printed material relating to service as an administrator in Fiji, and to tours made of the Caribbean and West Pacific territories as Assistant Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1938-1966.
Extents: 4 boxes
Dates:
1938-1966
Papers of Trevor Hearl
Collection
Material relating to the death of Napoleon Bonaparte on St. Helena, comprising five pencil sketches of Bonaparte and Longwood House by Capt. Guy Rotton, 1821, with an explanatory note by Hearl, and Translation du cerceuil de 'Empereur Napoléon à bord de la frégate La Belle-Poule... by Durand-Brager (Paris, Gide, 1844), with a photocopy of the text.
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates:
1821, 1844
Papers of W.F. Faulds
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2321
Typescript, Observations of a part-time spy of the federal army: an account of the service of W.F. Faulds - Captain - the Royal Rhodesian Regiment 1959-1964.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
1996
Papers of W.H. Simmonds
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2297
Collection of newspaper cuttings about Cecil Rhodes, 1881-1905, compiled by Simmonds.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1881-1905
Papers of William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney
Collection
Papers of William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney
Extents: 0.33 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates:
1864-1904
Papers of William Bloomfield Douglas
Collection
Xerox copy of diary, originally in 4 volumes, written while Resident of Selangor, Malaya, 1876-1882, with offprint of an article by J.M. Gullick concerning the diary, 1975
Extents: 3 boxes
Dates:
1876-1882, 1975
Papers of William E. Stober
Collection
Legislative papers, mainly photocopies, relating to the New Hebrides (including the Anglo-French condominium government), 1870-[1980]
Records relating to the Joint Court of the New Hebrides, and to settlement and land, 1883-1980; records relating to the British Land Trust Board, 1903-1905, 1963-1994
Records relating to Stober's land assignment, 1911-1982
Minutes,...
Extents: 29 boxes
Dates:
1870-1995
Papers of William McGregor and Isabel Ross (1)
Collection
The papers include:
diaries of William McGregor Ross, 1890-1939
summary of significant events in the diaries, 1890-1939, compiled by Sylvia R. Ross
typescript autobiography, The Memoirs of William
McGregor Ross and Isabel Ross, by Isabel Ross, based partly on the
diaries, 1958-1962
correspondence of William McGregor Ross and...
Extents: 8 boxes
Dates:
[1890-1964]
Papers of William McGregor and Isabel Ross (2)
Collection
Letters from William McGregor Ross to his parents, 1900-1917; correspondence and papers relating to William McGregor Ross's work in the Public Works Department, 1901-1922; personal correspondence and papers of William McGregor and Isabel Ross, 1899-1952; photographs and related papers, [c1894-1931].
Extents: 34 boxes
Dates:
[1894-1952]
Papers of William McGregor and Isabel Ross (3)
Collection
Reports and correspondence of and relating to the Public works Department, and other correspondence of William McGregor Ross, 1905-1939; report on the Tana River, Kenya, etc., 1909; draft manuscript of Kenya from within: a short political history by William McGregor Ross (London, Allen & Unwin, 1927); miscellaneous papers, 1900-1935; miscellaneous published reports and papers, including reports on the Uganda Railway, 1899-1929.
Extents: 1 box, 9 volumes
Dates:
1899-1939
Papers of William McGregor Ross relating to Sir Hiram Maxim and his flying machine
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 21798
Papers of William McGregor Ross relating to Sir Hiram Maxim and his flying machine.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1892-1939
Papers of William Sydney Marchant
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 491
Photographs, press cuttings and other papers relating to colonial service in Kenya, 1919-1938, 1943-1947, and as Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands, 1939-1943.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1919-1947
Papers of William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. r. 266
Proofs of the first draft of The Selborne memorandum, a review of the present mutual relations of the British South African colonies by Palmer. Proofs prepared by L.G. Curtis, 1906. The final printed version of the memorandum was first published in a Cape blue-book and presented in the Cape Parliament, and was subsequently republished by the Colonial Office in July 1907.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
1906
Papers of Willoughby Harry Thompson
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 519
Memoir of service, 1944-1974, with related papers.
Extents: 5 Files
Dates:
1944-1974
Papers of W.J. Marquand
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Pac. s. 98
Community development in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate with particular reference to the Marching Rule movement on the island of Malaita: report by Marquand as an Administrative Officer (photocopied typescript).
Extents: 69 ff.
Dates:
1949-1950
Papers relating to Bernard Gilpin, the 'Apostle of the North' (d. 1584)
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. th. c. 20
Papers relating to Bernard Gilpin, the 'Apostle of the North' (d. 1584)
Extents: 16 Leaves
Dates:
Written in 1575-1610