Papers of Samuel Burnside B. McElderry

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 595
  • Dates of Creation
    • c1909-1911, 1933-1934
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 1 box

Scope and Content

Album of photographs taken on first tour of service as Administrative Officer in Hong Kong, c1909-1911; diary of service as Deputy Chief Secretary in Tanganyika, and Chief Secretary in Zanzibar, 1933-1934.

Administrative / Biographical History

Samuel Burnside Boyd McElderry (1885-1984) worked in the Hong Kong Administrative Service, 1909-1928. He then gained the post of Deputy Chief Secretary, Tanganyika, 1929-1933 and Chief Secretary, Zanzibar, 1933-1940. He was attached to the office of High Commissioner for Basutoland, Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland (Pretoria and Cape Town), 1940-1945, and was then temporarily employed by the Colonial Office, 1945-1946. He was a Member of Council, Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind, 1951-1970 and a member of the Royal National Institute for the Blind, 1958-1970. In 1913 he married Mildred Mary Orme, with whom he had three daughters.

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Note

Collection level description created by Paul Davidson, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House.

Other Finding Aids

Listed as no. 595 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

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