Papers of Arthur F.W. Sheffield

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 476 (41)
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1980s]
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 116 ff

Scope and Content

Detailed reminiscences on service, 1930-1958.

Administrative / Biographical History

Arthur F.W. Sheffield, OBE (fl 1907-1958) worked in Nigeria as Superintendent of Agriculture from 1930, Senior Agricultural Officer from 1946, Principal from 1949, Research Adviser, Agricultural Department from 1952, Deputy Director of Agriculture, Eastern Region from 1951 and Director, 1954-1958.

Access Information

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Other Finding Aids

Listed as no. 582 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996). A handlist is available for consultation in the library reading room.

Conditions Governing Use

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

Custodial History

The Food and Cash Crops collection comprises material initially donated to the Oxford Development Records Project, which invited former members of the Colonial Agricultural Service to submit a memorandum dealing with their work in the development of food and cash crops after 1945 in the territories in which they served.

Related Material

Other memoranda, etc. in the Food and Cash Crops collection (ref. MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 476).