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Collection
Papers of Hubert F. Mathews
The working papers and family letters of Hubert Mathews, a colonial officer in Nigeria from 1910-1929.
Extents: 0.45 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates:
1910-1964
Collection
Papers of Ivor F.W. Schofield
Correspondence, reports, photographs, cinefilms, etc., relating to administrative service in Nigeria, and to work as Income Tax Adviser to the Government in Gambia.
Extents: 11 boxes
Dates:
1927-1970
Collection
Papers of James Stewart Smith
Smith's autobiography of service as an Administrative Officer in Cameroon and Eastern Nigeria (1924-1955) entitled "The Last Time", with related reports, papers and letters home.
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates:
1924-1955
Collection
Papers of Laurence Giles relating to Canada and Nigeria
Papers of Laurence Giles relating to Canada and Nigeria.
Extents: 0.83 Linear metre (5 boxes)
Dates:
1926-1992
Collection
Papers of Neville Barwick
Papers, mainly as District Officer, Eastern Region, Nigeria, including annual reports and handing-over notes as well as day-files for Orlu division; arrangements for the coronation, 1953; State of Emergency, Bende Division, 1958.
Extents: 3 boxes
Dates:
1953-1958
Collection
Papers of Sir John Dalzell Rankine
File on constitutional reform in Zanzibar (1952-1954), while British Resident, and 10 files as Governor of Western Region, Nigeria (1954-1960), including regular despatches to the Colonial Office and personal correspondence about pensions etc.
Extents: 3 boxes (10 files and loose correspondence)
Dates:
1952-1962
Collection
Papers of Sir Selwyn Macgregor Grier
The collection mainly covers the years Grier was in Nigeria, and mostly consists of family letters from Grier to his mother and to his sister "Dorothy" (Mary Lynda Dorothea Grier) who was Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, from 1921-1945. There is also a file of papers relating to Nigera and an album of photographs (mostly dated 1911).
Extents: 4 boxes
Dates:
1884-1957 (bulk 1905-1925)
Collection
Papers of the Reverend Michael Ashley Mann
Reports, memoranda, draft chapters of a book, photographs and printed material, relating to service in Colonial Administration in Southern Nigeria, 1946-1955, and as Vicar of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, 1962-1967.
Extents: 4 boxes
Dates:
1945-1967
Collection
Photograph Albums belonging to Stanhope White
Five captioned photograph albums (1936-1954) spanning the whole of White's career from a Cadet at Cambridge University to his work as a District Officer and, later, Head of Commerce and Industries in Northern Region, Nigeria, and including a trip to the Sudan. Also included are associated papers, pamphlets, articles, literary correspondence and presscuttings, mostly to do with agriculture and commerce. The five photograph albums provide a pictorial counterpart to …
Extents: 4 boxes
Dates:
1936-1954
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]
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
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
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
Memoirs of John Brayne-Baker
Memoirs and text of talks on experiences in the Colonial Administrative Service in Nigeria and the British Cameroons, 1928-1956.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1926
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1928-1956
Single Item
Memoirs of Michael C. Atkinson
"The bush out of my soul: two decades in Western Nigeria": memoirs of Michael C. Atkinson relating to his service as an Administrative Officer, 1939-1959. Typescript.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1836
Extents: 168 ff.
Dates:
1939-1959
Single Item
Papers of D. Anthony T. Thain
Reports, memoranda, texts of speeches, lecture notes, etc., relating to service as a District Officer in Northern Nigeria and as lecturer at the Institute of Administration, Local Government Wing, Zaria, 1949-1962.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1871
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1949-1962
Single Item
Papers of Harry Bernard Cox
Reports, notes and correspondence relating to colonial administrative service in Nigeria: Abakaliki (1933), Ilestra (1941), Ibadan (1943), and in the Department of Commerce and Industries (1950-1952).
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1907
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1933-1952
Single Item
Papers of Harry Bernard Cox relating to the Honorable A.C. Nwapa
Papers relating to a visit to the U.K. and Europe by the Honorable A.C. Nwapa (Nigerian Minister of Commerce and Industries) in 1952. Includes itinerary, texts of speeches, minutes of meetings and memoranda.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1892
Extents: 153 ff.
Dates:
1952
Single Item
Papers of Robert Bernard Brooks
Papers as Resident in Calabar Province, Nigeria, including reports on the history of Native Administration, on Owerri Province, native court reports and intelligence reports on the Cameroons campaign (1914-1915).
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1873
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1914-1932
Single Item
Papers relating to the development and administration of forestry in Nigeria
Correspondence between Colonial Administration, Conservators of Forests, etc., with memoranda and reports, concerning the development and administration of forestry in Nigeria.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1682
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1937-1945, 1954-1958
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- Income tax -- Gambia 1
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- Nigeria -- Politics and government 1
- Nigeria -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works 1
- Nso (African people) -- Cameroon 1
- Orlu (Nigeria) 1
- Photographs 1
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- Vicars-general -- Nigeria -- Port Harcourt 1
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- Indexed names
- Great Britain | Colonial Administrative Service 22
- Atkinson | Michael C | b 1917 | Colonial Administrator 2
- Bridges | Albert Francis B | fl 1921-1949 | Colonial Administrator 2
- Cox | Harry Bernard | 1906-1989 | Colonial Administrator 2
- Barwick | Neville | b 1916 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Best | Oswald Herbert | fl 1920-1930 | 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
- Brooks | Robert Bernard | fl 1914-1932 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Chaytor | Charles John | fl 1912-1932 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Eyre | Antony G | b 1921 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Giles | Laurence Cranmore | 1909-2007 | colonial officer 1
- Grier | Selwyn | 1878-1946 | Sir | Knight Colonial Administrator 1
- Haig | E F G | fl 1930 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Harcourt | Henry Newton | b 1906 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Hawkesworth | Edward Gerald | b 1897 | Sir | Colonial Administrator 1
- Institute of Administration (Zaria) 1
- Mann | Michael Ashley | b 1924 | Dean of Windsor 1
- Mathews | Hubert Frank | 1885-1964 | colonial officer in Nigeria 1
- Nigeria | House of Chiefs 1
- Nwapa | A C | fl 1952 | Nigerian Minister of Commerce and Industries 1
- Rankine | John Dalzell | 1907-1987 | Sir | Knight Colonial Administrator 1
- Robertson | Algar Ronald | 1902-1975 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Schofield | Ivor Frederick Wentworth | 1904-1979 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Smith | James Stewart | 1900-1987 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Thain | D Anthony T | b 1921 | Colonial Administrator 1
- White | Stanhope | b 1913 | Colonial Administrator 1 ∧ less
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- Arabic 1
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