Papers concerning stay in Jamaica with Lord and Lady Olivier in 1931, with related material on Lord Olivier.
Papers of Elfrida Manning
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- ReferenceGB 161 MSS. W. Ind. s. 65
- Dates of Creation1931
- Language of MaterialEnglish.
- Physical Description1 folder
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Administrative / Biographical History
The papers largely concern Sydney Haldane, Baron Olivier (1859-1943), KCMG (1907). Lord Olivier graduated from Corpus Christi College, Oxford and entered the Colonial Office, 1882. He was Colonial Secretary, Jamaica, 1900-1904 and Governor, 1907-1913. He was Permanent Secretary, Board of Agriculture, 1913-1917, Assistant Comptroller and Auditor of the Exchequer, 1917-1920, and Secretary for India, 1924. He was a champion of the sugar industry in the British West Indies, and Secretary of the Fabian Society, 1886-1889. His publications include The Anatomy of African Misery (London, L. & V. Woolf, 1927).
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Collection level description created by Paul Davidson, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House.
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Accruals
Further papers, comprising letters written to Elfrida Manning (thenThornycroft) by Lord Olivier, 1928-1931, a manuscript article by Thornycrofton Jamaica, and a letter from Olivier to Burnham, 1925 concerning an article inthe Daily Telegraph, were transferred by Christopher Thornycroft on 22nd September 1997.