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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
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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
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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
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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
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Archive of Sir Robert Armitage

Papers of Sir Robert Perceval Armitage, KCMG, MBE (1906-90) relating to his work in Kenya, the Gold Coast, Cyprus and Nyasaland.
Extents: 1.05 Linear metres (7 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1926-83
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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
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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
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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
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Correspondence of Sir John Robert Chancellor

37 letters written by, or to, Sir John Chancellor, including letters about India, Mauritius, Palestine, Cyprus and South Africa.
Extents: 37 items (107 ff.)
Dates: 1909-1929
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
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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
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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
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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
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Letter-book of Sir Godfrey Yeatman Lagden

Letter-book as Resident Commissioner in Basutoland.
Extents: 2 volumes, 2 folders
Dates: 1884-1910
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Letters from Sir Graham John Bower (microfilm)

Copies of selected letters of Sir Graham John Bower, 1895-1928. Microfilm.
Extents: 2 Reels
Dates: 1895-1928
Collection

Memoirs of Ann M. Davidson

"The real paradise: memories of Africa, 1950-1963", an account by Ann M. Davidson of her life as a District Officer's wife in Nyasaland (now Malawi), based on weekly letters to her mother. Bound typescript.
Extents: 2 Volumes
Dates: [1963?]
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Papers of Alexander Mair Wilkie

Correspondence, memoranda etc. of service in Kenya, the British Solomon Islands and as British Resident Commissioner in the New Hebrides.
Extents: 4 boxes
Dates: 1935-1969
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Papers of Algar R.W. Robertson

Correspondence, tour diaries etc. relating to service in the Gold Cost, British Guiana, Fiji, Trinidad and Tobago, Nigeria.
Extents: 14 volumes and files (5 boxes)
Dates: 1929-1956
Collection

Papers of Arthur Evelyn Weatherhead

Diaries relating to his service in South Africa, Uganda and the Seychelles, with albums of photographs of South Africa and Uganda, and letters, invitations, and photographs relating to his governorship of the Seychelles (1935-1936).
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates: 1902-1936
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Papers of Charles James Bagenal

Correspondence, diary and photographs of C.J. Bagenal comprising typescript copies of his letters home during the Boer War (1900-1902), with handwritten introduction and notes made in 1951; diary (typed at a later date) covering the East African Campaign (1915-1917), and three albums of photographs of Tanganyika, South Africa and Ireland (1914-1941).
Extents: 4 volumes, 1 file
Dates: 1900-1951

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20th century 104
Nigeria -- Officials and employees 21
Colonial administrators 19
19th century 13
Colonial administrators -- Nigeria 13
Colonial administrators -- Ghana 7
Colonial administrators -- Tanganyika 7
Ghana -- Officials and employees 7
Tanganyika -- Officials and employees 7
Africa -- Officials and employees 6
Kenya -- Officials and employees 6
Colonial administrators -- Africa 5
Cameroon -- Officials and employees 4
Guyana -- Officials and employees 4
Trinidad and Tobago -- Officials and employees 4
Colonial administrators -- South Africa 3
Colonial administrators -- Uganda 3
Governors 3
Governors -- Africa 3
South Africa -- Officials and employees 3
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Uganda -- Officials and employees 3
21st century 2
Africa -- Pictorial works 2
Asia -- Officials and employees 2
Autobiographies 2
Belize -- Officials and employees 2
Botswana 2
Civil Service -- Great Britain -- Colonies 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
Gambia -- Officials and employees 2
Gambia -- Politics and government -- 20th century 2
Ghana 2
Ghana -- Pictorial works 2
Governors -- Falkland Islands 2
Guyana -- Politics and government -- 20th century 2
Hong Kong (China) -- Politics and government -- 20th century 2
Jamaica -- Officials and employees 2
Kenya 2
Kenya -- History -- 1895-1963 2
Lesotho -- Officials and employees 2
Malawi -- 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
Zambia -- Officials and employees 2
18th century 1
Abeokuta (Nigeria) 1
Africa -- Description and travel 1
Africa -- Politics and government -- 1945-1960 -- Congresses 1
Africa, Central -- History -- 20th century 1
Africa, East 1
Agricultural industries -- Nigeria 1
Agriculture -- Africa 1
Agriculture -- Ghana -- Congresses and conventions 1
Agriculture -- Tanzania 1
Animals -- Africa 1
Ascension Island (Atlantic Ocean) 1
Ashanti 1
Ashanti (African people) -- Social life and customs 1
Ashanti -- History 1
Asia -- Description and travel 1
Asia -- Pictorial works 1
Australia 1
Autobiographies -- Ghana 1
Autobiographies -- Malawi 1
Bahamas -- Officials and employees 1
Barotseland (Zambia) 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
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Indexed names
Lugard | Frederick John Dealtry | 1858-1945 | Baron Lugard of Abinger | colonial administrator, soldier and author 3
Robertson | Algar Ronald | 1902-1975 | Colonial Administrator 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
Chancellor | John Robert | 1870-1952 | Sir | Knight 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
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
Ambrose | W Gerald | fl 1900 | Travelling Commissioner in Southern Nigeria 1
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Armitage | Sir | Robert Perceval | 1906-1990 | Knight | colonial administrator 1
Arrowsmith | Sir | Edwin Porter | 1909-1992 | Knight | colonial governor 1
Arthur | Oswald Raynor | 1905-1973 | Sir | Knight Colonial Administrator 1
Barkly | Henry | 1815-1898 | Sir | Knight Colonial Governor 1
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
Brooke-Popham | Henry Robert Moore | 1878-1953 | Sir | Knight Air Chief Marshal 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
Childs | Hubert | 1905-2983 | 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
Cohen | Sir | Andrew | 1909-1968 | Knight | Colonial Administrator 1
Colby | Sir | Geoffrey Francis Taylor | 1901-1958 | Knight | Governor of Nyasaland 1
Conservative Commonwealth and Overseas Council 1
Coriat | - | fl 1920-1960 | wife of Percy Coriat, Colonial administrator 1
Coriat | Percy | fl 1920-1960 | Colonial administrator 1
Corona Club 1
Corona Worldwide 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
Denham | Sir | Edward Brandis | 1876-1938 | Knight Colonial Governor 1
Duncan-Johnstone | Angus Colin | b 1889 | Colonial Administrator 1
Dutton | Eric Aldhelm Torlogh | 1895-1973 | Colonial Administrator 1
East African Estates Limited 1
Ewart | J H | fl 1900-1901 | Travelling Commissioner in Southern Nigeria 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 | Colonial Office 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
Harper | Charles Henry | 1876-1950 | Sir | Knight and Colonial Governor 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 | Gordon James | 1886-1962 | Sir | Knight and Colonial Governor 1
Luce | Richard Napier | b 1936 | Baron Luce | MP colonial administrator businessman 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