Two photograph albums recording the years Edward Price Roe spent in Blantyre. The photographs are mainly of the Shire Highlands, his home on Kubula Hill, his shooting expeditions, and his travels into Mozambique. Some of the photographs show his family at home in Ireland.
Photograph Albums belonging to Edward Price Roe
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS.Afr.t.32
- Dates of Creation
- 1900-1921
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English.
- Physical Description
- 2 volumes
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Edward Price Roe (1870-1953) was born near Dublin, Ireland. He worked as Chief Accountant for the British Central Africa Company in Blantyre, Nyasaland (now Malawi) from 1900 to 1921.
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Note
Collection level description created by Marion Lowman, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House.
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Listed as no. 857 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
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Donated to the Oxford Development Records Project.