Memoirs of Otto Markus

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS.Afr.s.1764
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1903-1949
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 131 ff.

Scope and Content

Memoirs of Otto Markus as pioneer, trader, and Director and Chairman of the East African Trading Company. Typescript.

Administrative / Biographical History

Otto Markus, pioneer and trader in British East Africa [now Kenya]. He formed the East African Trading Company in ca.1900 (he was Director and Chairman) and the Old East African Trading Company in 1923.

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Note

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

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Listed as no. 1155 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

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Custodial History

Deposited with the Oxford Development Records Project.