Scope and Contents
Calculations made during Clementi's journey through India, Tibet and China, 1907-1908.
Dates
- Creation: 1907 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access
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).
Biographical / Historical
Sir Cecil Clementi (1875-1947) was born in Cawnpore on 1 September 1875. He attended St Paul's School and Magdalen College, Oxford, and was posted to Hong Kong in 1899, where he was a land officer and police magistrate, 1903-1906. He travelled widely before becoming Colonial Secretary of British Guiana, 1913-1922, and of Ceylon, 1922-1925. Clementi was Governor of Hong Kong, 1925-1930, and Governor of the Straits Settlements and High Commissioner for the Malay States, 1930-1934. He died in High Wycombe on 5 April 1947.
Extent
.01 cubic metre(s) (1 archive box) : paper
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented by Lady Clementi.
General
This collection level description was created by RAS. The biographical history was compiled with reference to the entry on Sir Cecil Clementi in L.G. Wickham Legg and E.T. Williams, eds, 'Dictionary of national biography', 1941-1950 (Oxford University Press, 1959), pp. 156-158.
Originator(s)
Clementi, Sir, Cecil, 1875-1947, Knight and colonial administrator
- Date
- 2003-09-17 15:18:22+00:00
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository
Cambridge University Library
West Road
Cambridge CB3 9DR United Kingdom
Map Dept enquiries: maps@lib.cam.ac.uk
all other enquiries: mss@lib.cam.ac.uk