Fonds MSS.Afr.s.1986 - Papers of James Stewart Smith

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MSS.Afr.s.1986

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Papers of James Stewart Smith

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  • 1924-1955 (Creation)

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2 boxes

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Name of creator

Smith, James Stewart
(1900-1987)

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Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections

Archival history

James Stewart Smith, CMG (1955), was born on the 15 August 1900 and educated at Marlborough College, and King's College, Cambridge. He joined the Nigerian Administrative Service in 1924 and subsequently served as Senior District Officer (1943), Resident (1945) and Senior Resident (1951). He was awarded the Papal Order of Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory the Great in 1953. Smith died on the 13 February 1987.

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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.

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Accruals

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Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

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Bodleian readers ticket required.

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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.

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      English.

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      https://www.archivesportaleurope.net/ead-display/-/ead/pl/aicode/GB-161/type/fa/id/gb161-mss.afr.s.1986 The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room. Listed as no. 1406 inManuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

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