Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1935-1951 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
1 box
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Herbert Collingwood A. Bryant, OBE (1953), was born in 1908 and educated at Bishop's Stortford College; and Queen's College, Oxford. In 1931 he entered the Colonial Administrative as a cadet. He was posted to Nigeria where he later held the posts of Assistant District Officer (1934) and District Officer (1941). Bryant was 1st Assistant Secretary to the Western Pacific High Commission in 1948, and acting High Commissioner for periods during 1950 and 1952.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Correspondence, reports, memoranda, etc., relating to Colonial Administrative Service in Nigeria and the Cameroons (1935-1945); and in the Western Pacific High Commission (1946-1951), including notes on the history, customs, commerce and development of the Western Pacific High Commission territories.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Bodleian readers ticket required.
Conditions governing reproduction
Rights to access and re-use digital objects: Unknown Rights to access and re-use archival descriptive information: Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, ShareAlike No reproduction or publication of personal papers without permission. Contact the library in the first instance.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
https://www.archivesportaleurope.net/ead-display/-/ead/pl/aicode/GB-161/type/fa/id/gb161-mss.brit.emp.s.448 The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room. Listed as no. 1305 inManuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).