Scope and Contents 204 x 136 mm. A view looking down on the scene at the Calabar landing stage just after the arrival of Sir Frederick Lugard on his tour of the Central and Eastern Provinces of Nigeria of December 2-15 1912. In the foreground a guard of honour stands at attention, with a group of civil and military officials gathered beside the landing stage watching Lugard's departure in the motor car which can be seen rounding the corner in the background: 'The main port of call was the relatively...

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A letter from John Merle Davis of the International Missionary Council, 28 March 1933, sending Lugard a copy of Leo Marquard's 'The problem of government', part 4 of 'Modern industry and the African', and four pages of Lugard's comments on this work, including page references.

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(1858-1945). 1st Baron Lugard. Soldier and Administrator. (55). In frame.

Scope and Contents This volume of c. 160 pages was compiled by Arthur C. Hunter, and was later passed to Lady Jackson. It contains material on Sir Frederick Jackson, Governor of Uganda (1911-1917), and his nephew Sir Geoffrey Archer, who served as Governor of Somaliland (1914-1923), Governor of Uganda (1923), and Governor-General of the Sudan (1924-1926). There are a few letters to A. C. Hunter from F. J. Jackson, but most of the items are printed cuttings. The scrapbook provides a record of the...

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Published and unpublished works on African history written by Gray, accompanied by research notes from archives and secondary sources.

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A letter enclosing a copy of Bovill's 'Caravans of the old Sahara'. Bovill comments on the importance of Lady Lugard's 'A tropical dependency' and the need for fresh material to be incorporated. He also writes about his own happy recollections of Nigeria.

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A letter written from Chipinga, Southern Rhodesia, 9 May 1938, concerning Nielsen's book 'The colour bar' (4 pages), with a copy of Lugard's reply, 24 May 1938 (1 page)

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Correspondence and biographical notes concerning Lord Lugard and his family.

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Cuttings from various publications on the 1892 disturbances, some in French and German with typescript translations. There is a note at the front by H.B. Thomas, October 1968: 'Formerly in Secretariat Library, Entebbe, Uganda, used by Margery Pelham when writing "Lugard, the years of adventure"'.

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105 x 195 cms on mount in frame 215 x 310 cms. Frederick John Dealtry Lugard (1858-1945), created Baron Lugard of Abinger in 1928, is associated chiefly with Africa, but was Governor of Hong Kong from 1907 to 1912. He was chiefly responsible for the creation of the University of Hong Kong in 1911. This full-length portrait of him in Governor's full-dress uniform is signed at the bottom.