Reports by Sir E.G. Hawkesworth, W.M. Bridges and H.N. Harcourt

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS.Afr.s.1627
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1922, 1934, 1938
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 1 box

Scope and Content

  • Assessment Report on Banso District, Cameroons Province, including details of the number of inhabitants, tax paid, administration, etc. (1922), by Hawkesworth.
  • Re-assessment Report on Banso District, Cameroons Province, including details of numbers of inhabitants, tax paid, administration, etc. (1934), by Bridges.
  • Report on Banso affairs, Cameroons Province (1938), by Harcourt.

Administrative / Biographical History

Sir Edward Gerald Hawkesworth (b 1897), William Maclaren Bridges (b 1898) and Henry Newton Harcourt (b 1906) were Colonial Administrators 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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Listed as nos. 1301, 1336 and 1339 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

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