Papers and photographs of Thomas Buckley

Material relating to the Buckley family's time in Malaya and Kenya and a collection of menus from ship journeys.

Thomas Alfred Buckley, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C., was born in Yorkshire, and worked as a soils chemist for the Agricultural Department in Kuala Lumpur. He was a member of the Selangor volunteers in Malaya, 1928-1940, then transferred to the Local Defence Corps, comprised of mixed races. He later became a Lecturer in Chemistry at the Agricultural College, Njoro, Kenya. He was married to Sarah Hannah Buckley.

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Presented by Hilda Buckley, daughter of Thomas Buckley.

Includes index.

A description of the material by Hilda Buckley is with the collection.

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This collection level description was created by RAS.

Buckley, Thomas Alfred, fl 1936-1957, soils chemist