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Thirty years ago by Philip Tengely

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043LL

Scope and Contents

Unpublished reminiscences of Tengely's service in West Africa, 134 pages, illustrated with original photographs, presumably by the author.

Dates

  • Creation: 1939

Creator

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

Philip Louis Tengely was born in 1875. He entered the Civil Service in British Guiana in 1892, and served in the Land and Audit Departments. He was appointed 2nd Class Supervisor, Customs, in the Gold Coast in February 1905, and transferred to Southern Nigeria as Assistant Auditor on 3 July 1905. He moved to Sierra Leone in the same capacity on 14 February 1908, but was invalided in April 1909.

Extent

12 item(s) (12 images)

Language of Materials

English

Other Finding Aids

The photographs are listed in the typescript photograph catalogue. The reminiscences are described at RCMS 143 in the manuscripts catalogue, and are stored, with the photographs, in the Manuscripts Collection.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented by the Royal African Society in 1972, which received the collection from Philip Tengely on 22 June 1939.

General

This collection level description was entered by SG and RAS using information from the original typescript catalogue.

Originator(s)

Tengely, Philip Louis, b 1875

Includes index.
Date
2004-08-17 11:53:34+00:00
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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