Report on labour problems in British tropical Africa by Arthur W. Davies

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS.Afr.s.1879
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1939
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 45 ff.

Scope and Content

"Labour problems in British tropical Africa", 1939. Typescript.

Administrative / Biographical History

Arthur W. Davies was born in 1915 and educated at the Royal Grammar School in Worcester; and Magdalen College, Oxford. He was on military service during 1936-1943. Davies served as a Colonial Administrator in the Gold Coast, holding the posts of Assistant District Commissioner (1939); District Commissioner (1945); Administrative Officer, class II (1952); and Administrative Officer, class I (1955).

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

Administrative/Biographical History compiled with reference to A Biographical Dictionary of the British Colonial Service 1939-1966 by A.H.M. Kirk-Greene (1991).

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