Schreiner, William Philip, 1857-1919 (statesman)
Dates
- Existence: 1857 - 1919
Biography
William Philip Schreiner (1857-1919), South African statesman, was born in the Wittebergen reserve, northern Cape Colony, on 30 August 1857. Schreiner was educated at the University of the Cape of Good Hope, in the London LLB at the Inner Temple, and at Downing College, Cambridge, in the Cambridge law tripos. In 1882 he was admitted to the English and the Cape bars. He became Cape parliamentary draftsman in 1885, took silk in 1892, and colonial attorney-general in 1893. He died at Trefaldwyn, Llandrindod Wells, Radnorshire, Wales, on 28 June 1919.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
File V: research papers, 1898 - 1927
Cuttings, correspondence and notes on Downing College members including Baron de Thierry, W.P. Schreiner, Henry Jackson, John Perkins and Peter Wallwork Latham;
notes on Downing family including Downing's Muskett Mss. and State Papers Domestic; correspondence re Busick Harwood miniatures.
Filing box with correspondence, notes, cuttings and pictures, 1909 - 1919
Concerns Downing College history and old members; mainly correspondence with old members about raising money for portraits of W.P. Schreiner and Francis Annesley.
William Philip Schreiner: Letter to H.G. Aldis, 1916
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
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