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Ashe, Robert William D'Escowet. Papers collection, 1911.

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0013/ASHE/1

Scope and Contents

  • 24 newspaper cuttings from various newspapers all over India describing and commenting on the murder of Mr. R.W.D’E. Ashe, I.C.S., Acting Collector and District Magistrate of Tinnevelly, on 17 June 1911, at the Maniyachi Railway Station.
  • 238 letters, telegrams and resolutions sent to Mrs. Ashe after her husband’s murder expressing horror and sorrow, and sending her condolences – from individuals and from bodies both British and Indian.
  • Prize poem ‘On the Tercentenary of Trinity College, Dublin’, by Robert Ashe, 1892.
  • Poems (TS) by Robert Ashe, n.d.


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    Dates

    • Creation: 1892 - 1911

    Biographical / Historical

    Acting Collector and District Magistrate of Tinnevelly, 1911

    Extent

    1 archive box(es)

    Language of Materials

    English

    Additional Description

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Donated by Lt. Col. A. Ashe

    Finding Aid & Administrative Information

    Language of description
    English
    Script of description
    Latin

    Repository Details

    Repository Details

    Part of the University of Cambridge: Centre of South Asian Studies Repository

    The University of Cambridge: Centre of South Asian Studies website
    Contact:
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