Papers of Dr. Frank Howard Budden

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS.Afr.s.2240
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1944-1949
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 1 box, 1 folder

Scope and Content

Reports written by Budden as Medical Officer, later Ophthalmologist, in Sokoto, Nigeria, including details of measures against smallpox and yellow fever and handing-over notes (1947-1949). Also, copies of letters written by Budden (July 1944 - May 1946).

Administrative / Biographical History

Frank Howard Budden, MBE (1955), was born in 1919 and educated at Tiffin School and St. Thomas Hospital, London. He served in the British Colonial Service as a Medical Officer, later Ophthalmologist, in Nigeria.

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Note

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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