Report and Memorandum by Algar R.W. Robertson

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS.Afr.s.1791
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1953, 1955
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 36 ff. (1 file)

Scope and Content

Report on Nigerian proposals for HM Overseas Civil Service, 1953; memorandum on the creation of a Central Pensions Fund based in the U.K., 1955. Typescript.

Administrative / Biographical History

Algar Ronald Ward Robertson (1902-1975) worked as Assistant Treasurer, Gold Coast, 1929-1936 and Deputy Treasurer, British Guiana, 1936-1939. He was Financial Secretary in Fiji, 1940-1948, Trinidad and Tobago, 1948-1953, Nigeria, 1953-1954, and the Federation of Nigeria, 1954-1956. Awarded the CBE, 1948 and CMG, 1953.

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Listed as no. 510 in Manuscript Collections (excluding Africana) in Rhodes House Library, Oxford, Supplement, compiled by Louis B. Frewer (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1971).

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