Papers of Algar R.W. Robertson

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS.Brit.Emp.s.433
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1929-1956
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 14 volumes and files (5 boxes)

Scope and Content

Correspondence, tour diaries etc. relating to service in the Gold Cost, British Guiana, Fiji, Trinidad and Tobago, Nigeria.

Administrative / Biographical History

Algar Ronald Ward Robertson (1902-1975) worked as Assistant Treasurer, Gold Coast, 1929-1936 and Deputy Treasurer, British Guiana, 1936-1939. He was Financial Secretary in Fiji, 1940-1948, Trinidad and Tobago, 1948-1953, Nigeria, 1953-1954, and the Federation of Nigeria, 1954-1956. Awarded the CBE, 1948 and CMG, 1953.

Access Information

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Note

Collection level description created by staff at the Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House.

Other Finding Aids

The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room and a handlist is also available for this collection.

Listed as no. 36 in Manuscript Collections (Africana and non-Africana) in Rhodes House Library, Oxford, Supplementary accessions to the end of 1977 and Cumulative Index, compiled by Wendy S. Byrne (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1978).

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