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Bryson, Hugh Patterson, 1898 - 1977

 Person

Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:

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3rd (Negri Sembilan) Battalion, Federated Malay States Volunteer Force, Remembrance Sunday 1950, 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/28
Scope and Contents

200 x 146 mm (mounted on card). A group photograph. Identified in the group are: E.W. ANCUTT, no information; Tuanku MOHAMED; Hugh Patterson BRYSON, British Adviser, Negri [i.e. Negeri] Sembilan; MOHAMED SALLEH bin Haji Sulaiman (1904-); M.S.C. 1920-1957; Ernest Edgar PENGILLY (1897); M.C.S. 1921-1952; H.S. BROWN, Manager, Ainsdale Estate, Seremban in 1935; A.J. (Tony ROZARIO), no information.

Dates: 1950
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'A tiger in Malacca in 1823', 1966 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/38
Scope and Contents

Draft of an article by Bryson, which reprints the narrative of a tiger hunt originally published in the 'Hereford Journal', 21 Jan. 1824, and assesses its historical accuracy. The file includes correspondence related to Bryson’s research (15 sheets)

Dates: 1966 - 1967
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8229C.
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After anniversary ceremony of Singapore's surrender signing by the Japanese; Singapore 12th September 1946, 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 1/105
Scope and Contents

154 x 101 mm. Showing Sir Franklin Gimson talking to H.P. Bryson and an unidentified Malayan banker on the steps of (?) the Victoria Memorial Hall. In the background are Dr. W.J. VICKERS; Nelson JONES (1895-1951), Malayan Civil Service 1919-1947; Andrew GILMOUR (1898-), Malayan Civil Service 1921-1953.

Dates: 1946
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Association of British Malaya dinner, June 3, 1954, 1954-06-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 9/21
Scope and Contents

153 x 150 mm. Showing H.P. Bryson seated at a dinner table next to Tuanku Abu Bakar (1898-), of Johore.

Dates: 1954-06-03
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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At police guard post at top of pass on road from Seremban to Kuala Pilah, 1950, 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/71
Scope and Contents

80 x 129 mm. Showing H. P. Bryson posing for his photograph with a Malay policeman standing at attention in the back ground.

Dates: 1950
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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British soldier moving into position for patrol in jungle, Negri Sembilan, 1950, 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/73
Scope and Contents

Showing a soldier running along a track, through thick jungle. A note on the reverse in Brysons hands reads: A posed picture taken on the edge of jungle, but it does give a good idea of how thick growth may be.

Dates: 1950
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence, 1960 - 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/2/15
Scope and Contents

The file includes correspondence between Clayton and Hugh Bryson, much concerning the publication of Clayton's stories in 'Malaya', of which Bryson was an editor. It also contains other material relating to Clayton's career, including comments upon the Duff Development Case and the Terengganu Rising (circa 110 sheets).

Dates: 1960 - 1962
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel MC 47.
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Detention and frustration of organised fifth column in Malaya 1941-42, 1942 - 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/15/2
Scope and Contents This is a large file of material provided by A.H. Dickinson, Inspector General of Police, Straits Settlements and Chief Security Officer, Malaya; R.B. Corridon, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Security Service; F.A.S. Caldwell, Police Intelligence Branch; C.W. Dawson, Secretary for Defence; Guy Madoc, Federated Malay States Police Intelligence; Forbes Wallace, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Federated Malay States; T.P.M. Lewis, Education Department, Federated Malay States; J.N....
Dates: 1942 - 1970
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this item must be viewed on Master Microfilm Reel 8239.
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Duff Development Company, 1961-01-13 - 1962-02-27

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/2/5
Scope and Contents

Notes on the settlement of the company's claims for compensation against the government of Kelantan in 1926 and 1930 by Reginald John Byard Clayton, the former British resident of Kelantan, with associated correspondence between Clayton and Hugh Bryson (37 sheets).

Dates: 1961-01-13 - 1962-02-27
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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'East coast travel thirty years ago', 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/9
Scope and Contents

Bryson's description of maritime access to Terengganu during the late 1920s and early 1930s (4 sheets).

Dates: 1963
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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Eating rubber seeds and other internment memories, 1966

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/19
Scope and Contents

A memoir by Bryson reflecting upon diet, the dissemination of news, fatigue parties and discipline within Changi and Sime Road Civilian Internment Camps (17 sheets). The file includes correspondence relating to its composition and publication in 'Malaysia', Apr. 1966, 24-26.

Dates: 1966
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8236.
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Farewell to H.P. Bryson at Datu Rembaus, Negri Sembilan 1950, 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/30
Scope and Contents 153 x 108 mm. Showing guests seated round a luncheon table in the garden of Datu Rembaus house. Figures identified in the group are: A.W.D. JAMES, no information; Mrs JAMES; Mrs HARRISON, no information; Dato' KLANA PETRA, ruling chief at Sungei Ujong; Mohamed SALLEH bin Haji Sulaiman (1904-), M.C.S. 1920-1957; A.J. GABBUTT, no information; L.I. LEWIS, Senior Inspector, Kampong Home Guard; Wife of Mohamed SALLEH; Hugh Patterson BRYSON; Wife of Data KLANA; Tuanku MOHAMED, no...
Dates: 1950
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Farm colonies in Malaya during the Japanese occupation, 1965-01 - 1965-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/12
Scope and Contents

This is a copy of an article which appeared in 'The Malayan Philatelist', vol. 6, no. 5, 1964, 51-54. It is accompanied by correspondence regarding the decision not to republish it in 'Malaya' (12 sheets).

Dates: 1965-01 - 1965-02
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8234.
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Governors' conference, Singapore, 1946, 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 1/103
Scope and Contents

147 x 122 mm. Showing a group of officials seated round a table. The figures are identified as: Walker (Secretary); (Sir) Alexander Theodore NEWBOULT (1896-1974), Chief Secretary, Malayan Union 1946-1950; Sir Gerald [i.e. Gerard] Edward James GENT (1895-1948), Governor, Malayan Union 1946-1948; Hugh Patterson BRYSON (1898-1977), Assistant Secretary, Singapore 1956-1949; J.S. DUMERESQUE, Head of Broadcasting; Sir Franklin GIMSON (1890-1975), Governor of Singapore 1946-1952.

Dates: 1946
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Group taken at new resettlement village on Seremban - Port Dickson Road, 1950, 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/74
Scope and Contents 154 x 115 mm. A group photograph showing officials, teachers and members of a visiting British delegation. Figures identified in the group are: B. H. TAN; no information. Ernest POPPLEWELL (1899 - 1977); M. P. (Lab.) for Newcastle upon Tyne, West, 1945-1966; later Baron Popplewell. Alan Tindal LENNOX-BOYD (1904-1983); M. P. (Con.) for Mid-Beds. 1931-1960; Minister of State for Colonial Affairs 1951-1952; later Viscount Boyd of Merton. BAHAMAN; District Officer, Seremban. Hugh Patterson...
Dates: 1950
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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H.H. Sultan Alam Shah of Selangor greeting the Negri [i.e. Negeri] Sembilan XI before the Malay Cup Final in 1948, 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 4/47
Scope and Contents

127 x 79 mm. As described, with Hugh Bryson standing at the left.

Dates: 1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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H.P. Brysons house at Alor Star, Kedah, 1937, 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/40
Scope and Contents

84 x 53 mm. A view looking across the garden towards Brysons spacious two storey house in Alor Star. He was at this period acting Assistant Adviser, Kedah. Photograph probably by H.P. Bryson.

Dates: 1937
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kedah, 1958-10-14 - 1961-06-23

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/2/2
Scope and Contents

1. 'How krah (forced labour) was abolished in Kedah' by Sir George Maxwell (2 copies, 4 sheets).

2. Correspondence between Hugh Bryson and Julian Dudley Hall on the evacuation of the Sultan of Kedah, Abdul Hamid Halim Shah, to Kulim during the Japanese invasion of Dec. 1941 (5 sheets).

Dates: 1958-10-14 - 1961-06-23
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be viewed on microfilm Reel MC46.
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Letter from Hugh Bryson to Lieutenant General Sir Brian Horrocks, 1967-06-14

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/1/17
Scope and Contents

Letter replying to Horrocks's research enquiries about the Malayan Emergency, giving Bryson's opinions of Sir Edward Gent, Sir Henry Gurney, the post Second World War Malayan police and Sir Harold Briggs (3 sheets).

Dates: 1967-06-14
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8226C.
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Letters concerning Changi and Sime Road civilian internment camps, 1967-07-01 - 1967-07-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/25
Scope and Contents

Two letters from Hugh Bryson to Harry Miller commenting upon incidents recorded in Miller's manuscript describing internment (2 sheets).

Dates: 1967-07-01 - 1967-07-08
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8237.
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Malayan Civil Service, 1966-03 - 1966-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/1/10
Scope and Contents

Correspondence between Hugh Bryson and Gerald Hawkins on the history of the Malayan Civil Service, including information on examinations, qualifications and the careers of individual members (8 sheets).

Dates: 1966-03 - 1966-05
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8224C.
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Malayan civil service, 1968-01-27 - 1968-02-14

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/2/16
Scope and Contents

Notes taken by Hugh Bryson in response to queries from the journalist George L. Peet on the staffing of the civil services of the Straits Settlements, the Federated Malay States and the Unfederated Malay States, and on the development of a pan-Malayan Civil Service. They include lists of names (7 sheets).

Dates: 1968-01-27 - 1968-02-14
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8226C.
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Malayan Civil Service and Malayan Union Constitution, 1963-08 - 1964-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/1/4
Scope and Contents Correspondence relating to the historian James de Vere Allen’s research into the Malayan Civil Service, the history of Malayan politics and government, and treaties and documents affecting the states of Malaya. The file includes letters from Hugh Bryson, who followed up Allen’s queries with his contacts. Bryson’s research notes include lists of members of the Malayan Civil Service who served during the First and Second World Wars, and who became prisoners of war or civilian internees...
Dates: 1963-08 - 1964-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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Malayan Golfing Society dinner at (?) Littlehampton, circa 1970, 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 9/40
Scope and Contents

212 x 163 mm. Showing the members of the Society at lunch in a hotel dining room. H.P. Bryson is seated at the front left side of the right hand table

Dates: 1970
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Malayan student gathering, circa 1956, 1956

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 9/29
Scope and Contents

137 x 190 mm. Showing Dr Salma binti Ismail and her husband standing with H.P. Bryson. Dr Salma was the first Malay woman to become qualified in medicine.

Dates: 1956
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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