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Collection
Letters from Anthony Arthur Shillingford, with related papers
Letters from Shillingford written home to his wife from Northern Nigeria, as an education officer, with related papers.
Extents: 22 boxes
Dates:
1924-1964
Collection
Papers of A. G. Boorman
Papers relating to his service in the Public Works Department, Nigeria, including memoranda, correspondence, calculations, handing-over notes and reports.
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates:
1930-1960
Collection
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 A.T. Jourdain
Official and private correspondence (1954-1958), including notes and letters as representative of John Holt & Company (Nigeria) Ltd. and as Special Member of the House of Assembly in Northern Nigeria. Also, unofficial reports of sessions of the House of Assembly (1956-1958).
Extents: 2 Files
Dates:
1954-1958
Collection
Papers of Eric Laidley Mort
Journals of two Trans-Sahara journeys from Nigeria to England, 1933 and 1936, as superintendent of education in Nigeria; with related reports, itineraries, maps and printed material, and 12 albums of photographs relating to service in education in Nigeria 1914-1937.
Extents: 2 boxes, 6 volumes
Dates:
1914-1937
Collection
Papers of George Frederick Sharp
Correspondence, memoranda, etc. as postal official in Nigeria (1912-1930); as Colonial Postmaster in Barbados (1931-1939); and as Postmaster-General in British Guiana (1939-1946).
Extents: 5 boxes
Dates:
1912-1946
Collection
Papers of Hubert Childs
Journals of tours of administrative service in Nigeria and Cameroon (1932-1948). Also, reports and papers relating to service in Nigeria (1933-1935), Sierra Leone (1950-1956), and Southern Cameroon (1960-1961).
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates:
1932-1961
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 John William H. O'Regan
First file contains letters from O'Regan to his mother and brother, rough diaries and papers relating to O'Regan's own career. Second file includes correspondence with Sir Andrew Caldecott and Ian Wallace and relates to the Colonial Service in general, especially in territories on the verge of self-government - Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Jamaica and Nigeria.
Extents: 2 files (2 boxes)
Dates:
1935-1962
Collection
Papers of Sir Gordon James Lethem
The collection covers all periods of Lethem's career except the time he spent in the Seychelles. The bulk of the material relates to his time spent in Nigeria. Included is correspondence; reports, and papers connected with them; some diaries; a number of papers in Arabic; printed books, pamphlets and newspapers; and minutes and opinions on subjects of particular interest to the Governments of Nigeria or British Guiana.
Extents: 22 boxes
Dates:
1914-1946
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 Thomas Keith Mitchell
Correspondence, courses, reports, handing-over notes, building specifications, plans, etc., as senior inspector of education (technical), 1953-1963.
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates:
1953-1963
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
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
Letters from J. Harry G. Miller-Stirling
Letters home as administrative officer in Northern Nigeria, and while serving in the German East Africa campaign.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.2051
Extents: 226 ff.
Dates:
1910-1917
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- Nigeria -- Officials and employees 35
- Colonial administrators -- Nigeria 13
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Nigeria 6
- Cameroon -- Officials and employees 3
- Colonial administrators 3
- Education -- Nigeria 3
- Guyana -- Officials and employees 3
- 19th century 2
- Autobiographies 2
- Gambia -- Officials and employees 2
- Nigeria -- Politics and government 2
- Sierra Leone -- Officials and employees 2
- 18th century 1
- Agricultural education -- Nigeria 1
- Agricultural industries -- Nigeria 1
- Barbados -- Officials and employees 1
- Boki (African people) 1
- Calabar (Nigeria) -- Officials and employees 1
- Ceylon -- Officials and employees 1
- Colonial administrator -- Nigeria 1
- Colonial administrators -- Africa 1
- Colonial administrators -- Africa, West 1
- Colonial administrators -- Cameroon 1
- Colonial administrators -- Interviews 1
- Colonial administrators -- Nigeria -- Autobiographies 1
- Colonial administrators -- Nigeria -- Correspondence 1
- Colonial administrators -- Nigeria -- Photographs 1
- Colonial administrators' spouses -- Nigeria, Northern 1
- Engineers -- Nigeria 1
- Farewells 1
- Fiji -- Officials and employees 1
- Ghana -- Officials and employees 1
- Governors 1
- Governors -- Interviews 1
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Nigeria -- Anecdotes 1
- Income tax -- Gambia 1
- Jamaica -- Officials and employees 1
- Leeward Islands (West Indies) -- Officials and employees 1
- Local government -- Nigeria 1
- Maiduguri (Nigeria) 1
- Malaya -- Officials and employees 1
- Medical personnel -- Nigeria 1
- Medical personnel -- Nigeria -- Sokoto -- Correspondence 1
- Nigeria -- Description and travel 1
- Nigeria -- Officials and employees -- Pictorial works 1
- Nigeria -- Social life and customs 1
- Nigeria -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works 1
- Palestine -- Officials and employees 1
- Photographs 1
- Plebiscite -- Cameroon 1
- Postal service -- Nigeria -- Employees 1
- Postmasters -- Barbados 1
- Postmasters general -- Guyana 1
- Reminiscences 1
- Schistosomiasis -- Nigeria -- Bornu 1
- Sierra Leone -- Description and travel 1
- Sierra Leone -- Social life and customs 1
- Trinidad and Tobago -- Officials and employees 1
- Veterinarians -- Nigeria 1
- West Indies -- Officials and employees 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Cameroon 1
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- Indexed names
- Great Britain | Colonial Administrative Service 23
- 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
- Robertson | Algar Ronald | 1902-1975 | Colonial Administrator 2
- Best | Oswald Herbert | fl 1920-1930 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Boorman | A G | b 1905 | Engineer Colonial Service 1
- Brayne-Baker | John | 1905-1997 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Brice-Smith | Hugh Middleton | b 1884 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Brooks | Robert Bernard | fl 1914-1932 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Bryant | Herbert Collingwood A | b 1908 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Budden | Frank Howard | b 1919 | Colonial Medical Officer 1
- Caldecott | Andrew | 1884-1951 | Sir | Knight Governor General of Ceylon 1
- Childs | Hubert | 1905-2983 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Eyre | Antony G | b 1921 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Great Britain | High Commission for Western Pacific Islands 1
- Grier | Selwyn | 1878-1946 | Sir | Knight Colonial Administrator 1
- Haig | E F G | fl 1930 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Haworth | James | b 1920 | Colonial Medical Officer 1
- Herbert | W J | fl 1953-1954 | Senior Veterinary Officer in Northern Nigeria 1
- Herington | George Norman | b 1899 | Agricultural Education Officer Colonial Service 1
- Hollis | Rosemary | fl 1951-1959 | wife of Colonial Administrator 1
- Hopkins | Terence Francis Gethin | b 1902 | Colonial Administrator 1
- John Clarkson | John | fl 1791-1792 | sailor 1
- John Holt & Company (Nigeria) Ltd. 1
- Jourdain | A T | fl 1954-1958 | Special Member of the House of Assembly, Northern Nigeria 1
- Lethem | Gordon James | 1886-1962 | Sir | Knight and Colonial Governor 1
- Macpherson | John Stuart | 1898-1971 | Sir | Knight Colonial Governor 1
- Milburn | Stanley | b 1903 | Education Officer Colonial Service 1
- Miller-Stirling | J Harry G | fl 1910-1917 | Administrative Officer, Colonial Service 1
- Mitchell | Thomas Keith | fl 1953-1963 | senior inspector of technical education in Nigeria 1
- Mort | Eric Laidley | fl 1914-1937 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Nigeria | Department of Public Works 1
- Nigeria | House of Chiefs 1
- Nigeria, Northern | House of Assembly 1
- Nwapa | A C | fl 1952 | Nigerian Minister of Commerce and Industries 1
- O'Regan | John William Hamilton | b 1913 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Rankine | John Dalzell | 1907-1987 | Sir | Knight Colonial Administrator 1
- Ross | George | fl 1800-1801 | Superintendent of Maroons in Sierra Leone 1
- Schofield | Ivor Frederick Wentworth | 1904-1979 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Sharp | George Frederick | b 1888 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Shillingford | Anthony Arthur | b 1903 | Education Officer Nigeria 1
- Wallace | Walter Ian James | b 1905 | Indian Civil Servant 1
- White | Stanhope | b 1913 | Colonial Administrator 1 ∧ less
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