Papers of William Bell

Scripts of musical revues and pantomimes put on in Uganda by William Bell andhis friends during the early 1950s, including scores for Babes in the Bush, with photocopies of UgandaHerald reviews of the performances and a photograph of Bell and PeggyLanning as the Ayah and Child.

William Lewis Bell (b 1919), CMG (1970), MBE (1945) was educated at HymersCollege, Hull, and Oriel College, Oxford. In 1943 he married Margaret Giles,with whom he had one son and one daughter.

He served with the Gloucestershire Regiment, 1940-1946, then moved to Uganda,where he worked as district officer, 1946-1954, Assistant Financial Secretary,from 1954, Deputy Secretary to the Treasury, from 1956, and PermanentSecretary to the Ministry of Education, 1958-1962. He was Director of Cox& Danks Ltd (MI Group), 1963-1964, Secretary, Westfield College, Universityof London, 1964-1965, founding head of the British Development Division forthe Caribbean Ministry of Overseas Development, [from] 1966, and UK Directorof the Caribbean Development Bank, 1970-1972. He worked as founding DirectorGeneral, Technical Education and Training [Organisation], Ministry of OverseasDevelopment, 1972-1977, was Information Officer, University of Oxford, 1977-1984, Chairman, Uganda National Parks, [from] 1962, President of the UgandaSports Union, 1961-1962 and a fellow of the Economic Development Institute World Bank, [from] 1958.

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Tape and transcript of interview on service of William L. Bell as PermanentSecretary, Ministry of Education, Uganda, 1960-1962 (ref. MSS. Afr. s. 1755 (144)).