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Collection Level Description: Papers of Algar R.W. Robertson

Reference: GB 0162 MSS.Brit.Emp.s.433
Title: Papers of Algar R.W. Robertson
Dates of Creation: 1929-1956
Extent: 14 volumes and files (5 boxes)
Name of Creator: Algar Ronald Ward Robertson

Language of Material: English



Administrative/Biographical History

Algar Ronald Ward Robertson (1902-1975) worked as Assistant Treasurer, Gold Coast, 1929-1936 and Deputy Treasurer, British Guiana, 1936-1939. He was Financial Secretary in Fiji, 1940-1948, Trinidad and Tobago, 1948-1953, Nigeria, 1953-1954, and the Federation of Nigeria, 1954-1956. Awarded the CBE, 1948 and CMG, 1953.

Scope and Content

Correspondence, tour diaries etc. relating to service in the Gold Cost, British Guiana, Fiji, Trinidad and Tobago, Nigeria.

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The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room and a handlist is also available for this collection.

Listed as no. 36 in Manuscript Collections (Africana and non-Africana) in Rhodes House Library, Oxford, Supplementary accessions to the end of 1977 and Cumulative Index, compiled by Wendy S. Byrne (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1978).

Access Points

Robertson | Algar Ronald | 1902-1975 | Colonial Administrator

Colonial administrators

Great Britain | Colonial Administrative Service

Ghana | Officials and employees

Guyana | Officials and employees

Fiji | Officials and employees

Trinidad and Tobago | Officials and employees

Nigeria | Officials and employees


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