A miscellany of material related to various aspects of the business interests of Libert and his son Vivian Oury in East Africa. Includes reports and accounts from various companies Oury had a directorship over or a financial stake in, such as the Mozambique Company, the Beira Railway Company, Beira Junction Railway Company, British, Central Africa Company, Zambezi Company, Company do Boror, Zambezi Mining Development, Rudder Trust Limited, National Cotton Company, and Nyasa Sisal Estates Limited. Includes report from Libert Oury's one and only trip to Africa to assess territory administered by the Mozambique Company. Includes personal paperwork and material related to the life Libert Oury, such as curriculum vitae, list of company positions and directorships, and news-cuttings, as well documents related to the administration of his death in 1935. Includes publications and literature related to areas in East Africa in which the Oury family has business interests, primarily Nyasaland, later known as Mozambique, such as visitor and settler guidebooks, atlas’s, geographic and geological surveys, and various newspapers and magazines.
Business interests and personalia
This material is held atBorthwick Institute for Archives, University of York
- Reference
- GB 193 OURY/46-60
- Dates of Creation
- 1856-1987
- Physical Description
- 16 boxes
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