"Random Recollections of a District Commissioner" by Geoffrey Popplewell covering his service in Tanganyika, 1926-1957. Typescript, 1990.
Recollections of Geoffrey Douglas Popplewell as a District Commissioner
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS.Afr.s.2156
- Dates of Creation
- 1926-1957
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English.
- Physical Description
- 166 pp., bound
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Geoffrey Douglas Popplewell was born in 1904 and educated at Merton Court School in Sidcup (King's Scholar); Westminster School (commoner); and Brasenose College, Oxford.
In 1927 he entered the Colonial Service as a cadet and was posted to Tanganyika; he later held the posts of Assistant District Officer (1929), District Officer (1940), and Senior District Officer (1950). Popplewell was the joint author of Notes on the Geography of Tunduru District and Notes on the Fipa .
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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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Listed as no. 1107 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
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