Letters from Sir Graham John Bower (microfilm)

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 GB 162 Micr.Afr.162-163
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1895-1928
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 2 reels

Scope and Content

Copies of selected letters of Sir Graham John Bower, 1895-1928. Microfilm.

Administrative / Biographical History

Sir Graham John Bower (1848-1933) entered the Royal Navy in 1861. He served continuously until December 1880, at which point he became Private Secretary to Sir Hercules Robinson. In 1884, Bower retired from the Royal Navy (with the rank of Commander) and in the same year became Imperial Secretary to the High Commissioners for South Africa (1884-1897). In 1898, he was appointed to the post of Colonial Secretary of Mauritius, a post he held until his retirement in 1910. Bower was also President of the Grotius Society; a Justice of the Peace in Hampshire, England; and was awarded the KCMG in 1892.

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Note

Collection level description created by Marion Lowman, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House.

Administrative/Biographical History compiled with reference to Who Was Who .

Other Finding Aids

The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room.

Listed as no. 720 in Manuscript Collections of Africana in Rhodes House Library, Oxford, compiled by Louis B. Frewer (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1968).

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No reproduction or publication of personal papers without permission. Contact the library in the first instance.

Additional Information

The originals are held in the South Africa Public Library (Bower Collection).