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Businesses (14)
- British India Steam Navigation Co Ltd London
- British North Borneo Co London
- Butterfield & Swire, oriental merchants Hong Kong
- China Navigation Co Ltd, shipowners London
- Gula-Kalumpong Rubber Estates Ltd London
- Guthrie & Co Ltd, East Indies merchants London
- Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co Ltd, shipbuilders and repairers Hong Kong
- The Kalumpong Rubber Co Ltd London
- Perak Sugar Cultivation Co Ltd Kalumpong, Malaya
- Sarawak Rubber Estates Ltd London
- Serdang Central Plantations Ltd London
- John Sparks Ltd, Chinese art dealer London
- John Swire & Sons Ltd, oriental merchants and shipowners London
- Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Co of Hongkong Ltd, shipbuilders and repairers Hong Kong
Organisations (60)
- Advisory Committee on Oriental Materials
- Algiers Mission Band
- British Association of Chinese Studies London
- British Association of Japanese Studies London
- British Tanzania Society
- Casa Materna Society, Great Britain Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
- Chefoo School, China
- Chefoo Schools Association London
- China Association London
- China Inland Mission
- China Purchasing Agency Ltd
- Chinese Government Purchasing Commission
- Christian Aid
- Christian Concern for Southern Africa
- Club de Dakar
- Colonial Missionary Society London
- Committee for Peace in Nigeria
- Commonwealth Missionary Society
- Conference of Missionary Societies in Great Britain and Ireland London
- Co-ordinating Council for Area Studies Associations
- Council for World Mission
- Fabian Colonial Bureau London
- Inter-Church Aid Department
- International Committee on Christian Literature for Africa
- Interserve England and Wales Bangladesh;Bhutan;India;Nepal;Pakistan
- Japan Christian Link London
- Joint Committee on Religious Liberty
- Lancaster House Constitutional Conference on Zimbabwe-Rhodesia
- League of Coloured Peoples
- Lebanon Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders, Beirut (formerly Lebanon Hospital for the Insane) Beirut, Lebanon
- Liberation London
- HMS Lizard (1886)
- London Missionary Society
- London Missionary Society: Leeds auxiliary committee Leeds, Yorkshire
- London Missionary Society: London auxiliary London
- London Missionary Society: Newcastle upon Tyne auxiliary Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
- London University: School of Oriental and African Studies London
- Ludhiana Medical College India
- Malayan Union: Committee on the Qualifications appropriate to Malayan Union Citizenship
- Medical Services Ministries, London London
- Melanesian Mission
- Methodist Missionary Society
- Churches of Christ Missionary Committee India;Thailand;Malawi
- Philological Society
- Presbyterian Church of England Overseas Missions Committee
- Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
- HMS Rapid (1883)
- Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) London
- Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding
- Southern Cross, missionary vessel
- Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa London
- Tientsin Grammar School Tientsin, China
- United Methodist Missionary Society
- United Reformed Church Overseas Missions London
- United Society for Christian Literature
- War on Want
- Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
- West African Students Union
- Western Sahara Campaign
- Womens Work of the Methodist Missionary Society
Persons (311)
- Abraham, Roy Clive (1890-1963), linguist
- Acheson, Guy Francis Hamilton (1863-1924), Chinese maritime customs official China;Gosport, Hampshire
- Addis, Sir Charles Stewart (1861-1945) Knight, banker
- Addis, Sir John Mansfield (1914-1983) Knight, diplomat
- Aglen, Sir Francis Arthur (1869-1932) Knight, Inspector General of Chinese Maritime Customs
- Alabaster, Sir Chaloner Grenville (1838-1898) Knight Consul General at Canton
- Allen, John Willoughby Tarleton (fl 1930-1977) linguist
- Allott, Antony Nicolas (1924-2002), jurist and magistrate
- Anderson, Sir James Norman Dalrymple (1908-1996) Knight, Professor of Oriental Laws
- Anderson, William Charles (b 1897) cotton planter
- Andrzejewski, Bogumil Witalis (b 1922) Polish Linguist
- Arkell, Anthony John (1898-1980) Colonial Administrator and Archaeologist
- Arnold, Sir Edwin (1832-1904) Knight, poet and journalist
- Arnold, Sir Thomas Walker (1864-1930) Knight, Professor of Arabic
- Aylward, Gladys (1902-1970), missionary
- Baddeley, Walter Hubert (1894-1960) Bishop of Blackburn
- Bake, Arnold Adriaan (1899-1963) Sanskrit Scholar
- Baker, Alan Custance (fl 1883-1940) Malayan Civil Servant
- Banks, Sir Joseph (1743-1820) Knight, Baronet, naturalist
- Bargery, George Percival (1876-1966) Missionary
- Barnes, Leonard John (1895-1977) Author and Journalist
- Baron, Richard (1847-1907), missionary, botanist and geologist
- Bassett, David Kenneth (1931-1989) historian
- Beech, John (1926-2012), Methodist minister and missionary to West Africa West Africa
- Beighton, Thomas (1790-1844) missionary
- Benson, Mary (1919-2000) civil rights campaigner and author
- Berger, Roland (1904-1991), Director of the British Council of International Trade
- Berger, William Thomas (1815-1899) Founder of China Inland Mission
- Berkeley, Sir Ernest James Lennox (1857-1932) Knight Colonial Administrator
- Birmingham, Walter Barr (fl 1952-1977) economist
- Black, John Stewart (1865-1930), barrister and consular official
- Blagden, Charles Otto (1864-1949) Orientalist
- Blatch, Gledhill Stanley (1916-1987), archaeologist
- Blencowe, John Walcot (1886-1964) Clergyman Missionary and Schoolmaster
- Blythe, Wilfred Lawson (1896-1975), colonial administrator
- Boston, John (fl 1920-1999), anthropologist and linguist
- Bovill, Edward William (d 1966) Historian
- Bowra, Cecil Arthur Verner (1869-1947), Chinese Maritime Customs official
- Bowra, Edward Charles Macintosh (1841-1874) Inspector General Chinese Maritime Customs
- Brice, William Charles (1921-2007), ethnographer and linguist
- Browne, Horace Albert (1832-1914) General
- Browne, Maria (d 2002), teacher in Iran Iran
- Burns, William Chalmers (1815-1868), Presbyterian missionary in China
- Cameron, James (1799-1875), Methodist missionary
- Campbell, James Duncan (1833-1907) Commissioner of Chinese Maritime Customs
- Campbell, John (1766-1840), Independent minister, philanthropist and traveller
- Capell, Arthur (fl 1928-1955) Linguist
- Caplan, Pat (b1942), anthroplogist
- Caroe, Sir Olaf Kirkpatrick (1892-1981) Knight, colonial administrator
- Carpenter, John Baker (b 1874) Missionary
- Chalmers, James (1841-1901) Missionary and Explorer
- Christian, Frederick William (fl 1899-1924) traveller and author
- Clauson, Sir Gerard Leslie Makins (1891-1974) Knight Colonial Administrator
- Coates, Patrick Devereaux (1916-1991) civil servant
- Codrington, Robert Henry (1830-1922) Prebendary of Chichester Missionary
- Coke, Thomas (1747-1814), methodist preacher and missionary
- Cole, Robert Benjamin Ageh Wellesley (1907-1995), surgeon and writer Sierra Leone
- Colt, Sir William Dutton (d 1693) Knight Diplomat
- Comins, Richard Blundell (d 1919) corresponding secretary of Melanesian Mission
- Conze, Edward (1904-1979), Orientalist
- Cousins, Ethel Constance (1884-1944) Medical Missionary
- Cox, Josiah (1829-1906), Methodist missionary in China
- Crabtree, William Arthur (fl 1886-1939) Missionary in Uganda Philologist
- Cripps, Dame Isobel (1891-1979) Public Servant
- Crisp, Henry (1803-1831), missionary
- Croll, Elizabeth (1944-2007), sinologist London
- Cromwell, Tom Pearson (b 1909) Colonial Administrator
- Curzon, George Nathaniel (1859-1925) 1st Marquess Curzon, statesman
- Davenport, Cecil John (1863-1926), medical missionary
- Dennis, Frank (fl 1920-1939), surveyor
- Deutsch, Andre (1917-2000), publisher
- Diamond, Howard (fl 1928-1952), Treasurer of the London Missionary Society London
- Dodwell, Henry Herbert (1879-1946) Professor of History of British Dominions in Asia
- Down, Reverend Arthur Robert (b 1907), missionary, Madagascar Madagascar
- Duff, Alexander (1806-1878), missionary
- Duncombe, William (fl 1689-1692) Diplomat
- Dundas, Henry (1742-1811) 1st Viscount Melville, statesman
- Durand, Sir Henry Marion (1812-1871) Knight, Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab
- Durand, Sir Henry Mortimer (1850-1924) Knight, Indian civil servant and diplomat
- Earthy, Emily Dora (fl 1917-1958) Missionary
- Edwards, Evangeline Dora (1888-1957) Professor of Chinese
- Ellis, William (1794-1872), missionary
- Euan-Smith, Sir Charles Bean (1841-1910), Knight, Colonel
- Evans, William (1860-1936), resident councillor, Penang
- Firth, John Rupert (1890-1960) linguist
- Fison, Lorimer (1832-1907) anthropologist
- Fitzroy, George (fl 1860) Chinese Maritime Customs Official
- Fox-Pitt, Thomas Stanley Lane (1897-1989), Secretary of the Anti Slavery Society
- Fraser, Robert (b 1947), Professor of English Literature
- Freeman, Thomas Birch (d 1890) Missionary in the Gold Coast
- Frere, Sir Henry Bartle Edward (1815-1884) 1st Baronet, statesman
- Furnivall, John Sydenham (1878-1960) Colonial Administrator
- Gardiner, Allen Francis (1794-1851) Commander RN Missionary in Patagonia
- Geller, Mabel Love (1872-1953), missionary
- Geller, Wilson Herbert (1868-1949), missionary
- Gillison, Elizabeth May (1868-1936) medical missionary in China China
- Gillison, Thomas (1859-1937), medical missionary in China China
- Goldstone, Anthony (1945-2016), journalist and human rights researcher
- Goodenough, James Graham (1830-1875) Commodore RN
- Graham, John (b 1867), minister and missionary
- Gray, John Richard (1929-2005), Africanist
- Green, Margaret Mackeson (1895-1979) Reader in West African languages and cultures
- Grenfell, George (1849-1906) Baptist Missionary
- Gueritz, Edward Peregrine (1855-1938) Governor of Labuan and North Borneo
- Gulliver, Philip Hugh (b 1921), academic and anthropologist East Africa
- Guthrie, Malcolm (1903-1972) Professor of Bantu Languages
- Haimendorf, Christoph von Furer (1909-1995), anthropologist
- Hake, Andrew Augustus Gordon (b 1925), clergyman and sociologist
- Hake, George Gordon (1847-1903), businessman South Africa
- Hall, Daniel George Edward (1891-1979) Historian
- Hall, Francis George (1860-1901) colonial administrator
- Hall, James Macalister (fl 1850-1890) Director British East Africa Co
- Hall, Peter (fl 1860-1880), founder of British India Steam Navigation Co
- Harbord, William (1635-1692) Politician
- Hardyman, James Trenchard (1918-1995) Missionary
- Hart, Sir Robert (1835-1911) 1st Baronet, Inspector General of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs
- Hartley, Marshall (1846-1928) Wesleyan Minister
- Hatton, Frank (1861-1883) Explorer
- Hatton, Joseph (1841-1907) Novelist and Journalist
- Head, Marie Blanche (1881-1965), author
- Heathcote, David (b 1931), artist and academic
- Hedgeland, Arthur (b 1876), colonial administrator
- Hedgeland, Reginald Follett Codrington (b 1874), Chinese Maritime Customs officer Exeter, Devon
- Helmore, Holloway (1815-1860), missionary
- Henderson, Eugenie Jane Andrina (1914-1989) afterwards Meier, Linguistic Scholar
- Higgins, John Comyn (1882-1952) Indian Administrator
- Hill, David (1840-1896) Methodist Missionary in China
- Himsworth, Frank (d 2010), Methodist missionary Sierra Leone
- Hodson, Henry Vincent (1906-1999), Economist and Editor
- Holmes, John Henry (1866-1934) Missionary
- Holt, Peter Malcolm (b 1918) Historian
- Hood, George A (b 1917), Missionary Malaysia
- Hoole, Elijah (1798-1872), missionary and orientalist
- Huckett, Arthur Samuel (1853-1922), missionary in Madagascar Madagascar
- Hughes, Henry Goronway Alun (1921-2013), linguistic scholar
- Hunt, Edmund Henderson (1874-1952) Chief Medical Officer Hyderabad
- Hunt, Reginald, (b1933), teacher
- Huntingford, George Wynn Brereton (d 1978) linguist
- Huntington, Collis Potter (1821-1900) American Railroad Pioneer
- Hussey, Sir William (d 1691), Knight, diplomat
- Ivens, Walter George (fl 1902-1940) linguist
- Jacob, John (1812-1858) Brigadier General Indian Army
- Jellicoe, Marguerite K (d 1994) anthropologist
- Jephson, Arthur Jermy Mounteney (1858-1908), traveller in Africa
- Johnston, Sir Harry Hamilton (1858-1927) Knight, explorer and colonial administrator
- Johnstone, Lloyd Isaac (1892-1982), doctor and missionary with the China Inland Mission
- Jones, Barbara Whittingham (fl 1938-47) afterwards Oppenheimer, Journalist
- Karloff, Boris (1887-1969), actor
- Kaye, Sir John William (1814-1876), Knight military historian
- Kemball, Sir Arnold Burrowes (1820-1908) Knight General
- Kinglake, Alexander William (1809-1891), MP, historian and traveller
- Kirk, Sir John (1832-1922) Knight, naturalist and political agent
- Kirwan, Sir Archibald Laurence Patrick (1907-1999) Knight Archaeologist and Geographer
- Knight, Sophia Katherine (1943-1982), teacher and communist
- Kornitzer, Eliezer Ludwig, (1873-1946), gem merchant
- Lamb, Sir Lionel Henry (1900-1992) Knight Diplomat
- Lea, Daisy Barbara (b 1918), nurse and missionary, Central Africa Central Africa
- Lee, Sir Henry Austin (1847-1918) Knight, diplomat
- Lees, Edward (1866-1915), fur trader and businessman China
- Lees, Jonathan (1835-1902), clergyman and missionary China
- Leftwich, Joseph (1892 - 1984), critic and translator
- Legge, James (1815-1897) Missionary and Sinologist
- Lenwood, Frank (1874-1934) Congregational Minister and Missionary
- Lieberman, Philip, (b1934), cognitive scientist
- Light, Francis (1740-1794) Superintendent of Penang
- Ling, Hong (b1955), artist
- Livingstone, David (1813-1873), explorer and missionary
- Lockhart, William (1811-1896), physician and missionary Liverpool, Lancashire
- Lomas, Elizabeth (1877-1959), missionary in Madagascar
- Lorimer, David Lockhart Robertson (1876-1962) Lieutenant Colonel Indian Army Linguist
- Luling, Virginia Rose (1939-2013), anthropologist and human rights activist
- Macgregor, Sir Charles Metcalfe (1840-1887) Knight Major General Traveller
- Mackay, Donald James (1839-1921) 11th Baron Reay, Governor of Bombay
- Mackenzie, Sir George Sutherland (1844-1910) Knight, explorer and businessman
- Mackenzie, John (1835-1899), missionary in Africa
- Mackenzie, Melville Douglas (1889-1972), Principal Medical Officer, Ministry of Health
- Mackinnon, William (1823-1893), baronet Founder of British East Africa Co
- Mann, Ebenezer John (1881-1957), missionary
- Mansfield, William (1855-1921) 1st Viscount Sandhurst
- Marshall, Sir John Hubert (1876-1958) Knight Archaeologist
- Maxwell, Sir William Edward (1846-1897) Knight Colonial Administrator
- Maybury, Maurice Alfred (1914-1995) Colonial Administrator
- Mayer, Adrian (b 1922), anthropologist and academic
- Maze, Sir Frederick William (1874-1959) Knight Inspector General of Chinese Maritime Customs
- McLean, David (1833-1908) Manager of Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank
- Menon, Rao Bahadur Vapal Pangunni (1894-1966) Indian Administrator
- Michell, Roland Lyons Nosworthy (1847-1931) Egyptian Administrator
- Michie, Alexander (1833-1902), writer on China
- Migeod, Frederick William Hugh (1872-1952) Colonial Administrator Botanist
- Millman, William (1872-1956) Missionary
- Mills, James Philip (1890-1960) colonial administrator, anthropologist
- Milne, William (1785-1822) Missionary
- Milne, William Charles (1815-1863) Missionary in China
- Mitchison, Naomi Margaret (1897-1999) Baroness Mitchison, writer and social activist Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Moffat, Mary (1795-1871), missionary
- Moffat, Robert (1795-1883), missionary
- Molema, Silas Modiri (c 1891-1965) South African political activist
- Moore, Reginald John Beagarie (1909-1943), missionary
- Moraes, Frances Robert (1907-1974) Journalist
- Morier, Sir Robert Burnett David (1826-1893) Knight Diplomat
- Morrison, Robert (1782-1834), missionary to China
- Mountbatten, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas (1900-1979) 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Admiral of the Fleet
- Mullens, Joseph (1820-1879) Missionary
- Nicholson, Joseph Shield (1850-1927), economist
- Noakes, Mary Elizabeth Diane (1911-1983), political activist
- Norman, Montagu Collet (1871-1950) Baron Norman, banker
- Nutt, William Harwood (1869-1943), artisan missionary
- Ogden, Sir Alwyne George Neville (1889-1981) Knight Diplomat
- Page, Arthur Bevan (1887-1963), trader in Africa Nigeria
- Paget, William (1637-1713) 6th Baron Paget, diplomat
- Pandey, Bishwa Nath (1929-1982) Lecturer in Modern Indian History
- Parsons, Frederick William (1908-1993) colonial administrator
- Parsons, Harry (1878-1952), missionary
- Patteson, John Coleridge (1827-1871), missionary bishop in Melanesia
- Pearce, Reginald Frederick George (b 1915) Anglican clergyman and civil rights activist
- Pelly, Sir Lewis (1825-1892) Knight, General, Indian administrator
- Perlman, Melvin Lee (1933-1988) American anthropologist
- Petter, Gladys Irene Kennan (1910-1996), Baptist Deacon and Christian campaigner in Australia Australia;Tunisia
- Petty-Fitzmaurice, Henry Charles Keith (1845-1927) 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, statesman
- Philip, John (1775-1851) South African Missionary
- Plaatje, Soloman Tshekisho (1876-1932) South African Author and Statesman
- Plaut, Plaut Martin (b 1950), journalist, editor and government advisor
- Pollard, Samuel (1864-1915) Missionary
- Pottinger, Eldred (1811-1843) Soldier and Diplomat
- Powell, Ifor Ball (1902-1986) historian
- Power, Brian St Quentin (1918-2008), author and barrister
- Pratt, Sir John Thomas (1876-1970) Knight Diplomat
- Rahm, Cornelius (1785-1853) Missionary to Russia
- Raston, Thomas (d 1896) Missionary in Sierra Leone
- Rawcliffe, Derek Alan (b 1921) Bishop of Glasgow
- Ray, Sidney Herbert (1858-1939), schoolmaster and linguist
- Rentse, Anker (1896-1950), colonial administrator and military intelligence officer Malaysia
- Reynolds, Harry Vivian Collett (1902-c 1975) Archdeacon of Central Solomons
- Richards, Charles Granston (b 1908) Missionary and Publisher
- Roach, Edward Keith (1885-1954), colonial administrator, author
- Roberts, Frederick Sleigh (1832-1914) 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Field Marshal
- Ross, Sir Edward Denison (1871-1940) Knight Orientalist
- Rough, Janet (1963-2002), Methodist missionary Jamaica
- Rudgard, Richard Cuthbert (1901-1985) Archdeacon of Basingstoke
- Rue, Henry (fl1910-1913), photographer Hong Kong;Shanghai, China;Canton, China;Warsaw, Poland;Russia;Irkuts
- Russell, Ralph (1918-2008), Urdu scholar London
- Rycroft, Robert (1910-2001), soldier in East Africa and India
- Sabin, Margaret Katherine (1887-1978) Missionary
- Sadd, Alfred Lionel (1909-1942), missionary Kiribati
- Sandilands, Alexander (1896-1979), missionary
- Sanford, Henry Shelton (1823-1891) United States Diplomat
- Sargant, Norman (1909-1982), Methodist missionary and Bishop of Mysore, South India India
- Saunders, Denys John (1921-2013), missionary in South India
- Saunders-Dundas, Robert (1771-1851) 2nd Viscount Melville, statesman
- Saville, Alfred Thomas (1839-1915), missionary in the South Seas
- Scott, Sir James George (1851-1935) Knight, administrator in Burma and author
- Scott, Maurice Woodforde (1912-1983), businessman China
- Scott, Percy Melville (c1889-1950), missionary in China
- Seligman, Charles Gabriel (1873-1940), anthropologist
- Sewell, William Gawan (1898-1984), chemist
- Shaw, Mabel (1889-1973) Missionary
- Shuttleworth, Henry Lee Hadwen (1882-1960) Orientalist
- Sibree, James (1836-1929), architect, missionary and naturalist
- Singh, Sadhu Sundar (1889-1929) Indian Christian 'sadhu'
- Smith, Edwin (1876-1957) missionary anthropologist
- Smith, Frederick Maltus (1895-1968), missionary with the London Missionary Society
- Smith, Kenneth Maltus (1926-2015), missionary Zimbabwe;Botswana
- Solander, Daniel Carlsson (1736-1782) Botanist
- Somerville, Henry Boyle Townshend (1863-1936) Vice Admiral
- Spencer, Paul (fl 1940-1999), anthropologist, Professor in African Anthropology at SOAS
- Stallybrass, Charlotte (1808-1839), wife of missionary
- Stallybrass, Edward (1793-1884) Missionary to Russia
- Stanley, Sir Henry Morton (1841-1904) Knight, explorer and journalist
- Stanton, Hannah (1913-1993), missionary anti apartheid activist
- Stapleton, Walter (d 1906) Baptist missionary
- Steen, James Connolly (b 1882), civil engineer
- Stencl, Avron Nokhem (1897-1983), poet
- Steward, John Manwaring (1874-1937) Bishop of Melanesia
- Street, Jennie (fl 1982-1997), development worker
- Stromwell, Sonia (d 2000), nurse and Red Cross worker
- Strong, Walter Mersh (1873-1946) geographer
- Swann, William (1791-1866) Missionary to Russia
- Taylor, James Hudson (1832-1905) Founder of the China Inland Mission
- Taylor, William Ernest (1856-1927) Missionary in East Africa
- Teall, Alfred Ernest (fl 1915-1965) Archdeacon of South Melanesia
- Temple, Merfyn (1919-2012), missionary and writer on Africa
- Temple, Sir Richard Carnac (1850-1931) 2nd Baronet Indian Army Officer and Orientalist
- Thompson, Ralph Wardlaw (d 1916), Foreign Secretary, London Missionary Society
- Thomson, John Boden (1841-1878), missionary
- Thurston, Edgar (1855-1935), museum superintendent, zoologist, anthropologist and botanist
- Trotter, Isabella Lilias (1853-1928), artist and missionary
- Tucker, Archibald Norman (1904-1980) linguist
- Turner, Sir Ralph Lilley (1888-1983) Knight Orientalist
- Turner, Robert Lister (1875-1949) Missionary
- Tusa, John (b 1936) broadcaster, journalist
- Undy, Harry (b 1932) Missionary
- Upward, Bernard (1873-1956), missionary
- Virgoe, Roger (1932-1996) Historian
- Wace, Alan John Bayard (1879-1957) Archaeologist
- Wade, Philip (fl 1983-1994), honorary treasurer of Christian Concern for Southern Africa
- Wade, Sir Thomas Francis (1818-1895) Knight, diplomat
- Waller, Horace (1833-1896), writer on Africa
- Watson, Jessie (1914-1992), missionary
- Welchman, Henry (? 1850-1908) Missionary in Melanesia
- Werner, Alice (1859-1935) linguist
- Whitehead, Andrew (c1950-2010), political journalist
- Whiteley, Wilfred Howell (1924-1972), Professor in Bantu languages
- Williams, John (1796-1839), missionary
- Willoughby, William Charles (1857-1938) missionary
- Winstedt, Sir Richard Olaf (1878-1966) Knight Colonial Administrator Orientalist
- Winton, Sir Francis Walter de (1835-1901) Knight, Major General, colonial administrator
- Wojkowitz, Rene de Nebesky- (1923-1956), ethnologist
- Woodall, John Emmett (1904-1987), teacher Tientsin, China
- Woodford, Charles Morris (1852-1927) anthropologist, geographer and explorer
- Wrigley, George (d 1837) Missionary
- Young, Sir Frederick (1817-1913) Knight, traveller, writer on imperial affairs
Diaries (43)
- Ala'i, Cyrus (b 1929), scholar
- Arnott, David Whitehorn (fl 1955-2000), linguist of Nigeria Nigeria;Benin;Burkina Faso;Cameroon;Gambia;Senegal
- Ashton, William (fl 1870-1932) Missionary
- Bailey, S F (fl 1967-1983), civil servant in Kenya and Hong Kong
- Banks, Alexander L (fl 1899-1949), missionary of India India
- Beckingsale, Laura Elsie (1886-1983) Missionary Teacher China
- Bell, Elizabeth Hope (fl 1911-1964) Nurse China
- Blacklock, Eric (fl 1961-1980), missionary
- Carswell, John (fl 1970), professor
- Davis, Richard Beattie (1922-2008), chartered surveyor and collector
- Ewing, Archibald (fl 1887-1940) Missionary China
- Fidler, William (fl 1825-1827) Methodist Missionary St Vincent
- Francis, David Lloyd (fl1920-1990), missionary of Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea
- Hirst, Godfrey (b 1873), sailor and Bible salesman of China China
- Hughes, Gertrude (d 2012), medical missionary
- Liberty, Edith (d1978), missionary of Taiwan Taiwan;Philippines
- Liberty, Eric (d1971), missionary of Taiwan Taiwan;Philippines
- Mather, Percy Cunningham (fl 1911-1933) Missionary China
- May, John (fl 1898-1899) Missionary
- Milledge, James Sibree (b1930), missionary of Madagascar Madagascar
- Newell, J E (fl 1870-1910) Missionary
- Newham, Helen Maxwell (1896-1974) Teacher Namibia
- Parsons, Edith Annie Kate (b 1876) Missionary China
- Pratt, Benjamin (1853-1931) Methodist Minister, Hyderabad Hyderabad, India
- Price, May Annie (fl 1937-1945), missionary of China China
- Price, Isabella (fl 1858-1860), missionary
- Reed, George Cullen Harvey (fl 1916-1917), missionary
- Rees, Emily Sarah (c1878-1960), missionary of India India
- Rice, Professor David Storm (1913-62) Archaeologist
- Ridge, William Sheldon (1875-1945) Teacher, Journalist, Selby Selby, Yorkshire
- Rose, John Richard (d 1998), doctor of China China;West Africa
- Rose, Dorothy (d 2001) of China China;West Africa
- Seager, Cecil (b 1908) Missionary
- Sinton, J R (fl 1941-1946) Missionary, Chungking Chungking, China
- Stagg, Charles H (fl 1862-1863) Schoolmaster Madagascar
- Stevens, Emmie (fl 1936-1980) Missionary Singapore;China
- Sung, John (fl 1931-1953) Missionary China
- Terrell, William G (fl 1892-1893) Missionary China
- Tippett, Charlotte (fl 1900-1938) Missionary China
- Warren, W H (fl 1903-1940) Missionary Shaohsing, China
- Wedlock, Dora (fl 1924-1932) Naval Wife Ceylon;China;Hong Kong
- Withers, Henrietta Ethel Frances (B1889) Schoolteacher, Chefoo Chefoo, China
- Wright, Robert Stewart (fl 1890-1920) Missionary
Families (2)
- Mackinnon, family, baronets, of Balinakill Balinakill, Argyllshire
- Paget, family, Marquesses of Anglesey Stanford-in-the-Vale, Berkshire;Iver, Buckinghamshire;Marlow, Buckinghamshire;Littleover, Derbyshire;Stalbridge, Dorset;Misterton, Leicestershire;Harmondsworth, Middlesex;West Drayton, Middlesex;Milborne Port, Somerset;Beaudesert, Staffordshire;Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire;Cannock, Staffordshire;Haywood, Staffordshire;Longdon, Staffordshire;Rugeley, Staffordshire;Surbiton, Surrey;Nuneaton, Warwickshire;Amlwch, Anglesey;Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll, Anglesey;Plas Newydd, Anglesey;Penrhyn, Caernarfonshire;Crobane, County Down;Galway, County Galway;Cooley, County Louth;Omeath, County Louth
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (67)
- NRA 42662 Roy Clive Abraham, linguist: notes and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 30593 Sir Charles Stewart Addis, international banker: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 33451 Sir John Mansfield Addis, diplomat: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 42348 Sir Chaloner Grenville Alabaster, Consul-General in Canton: diaries and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 43055 John Willoughby Tarleton Allen: corresp and papers rel to Swahili literature link to online catalogue
- NRA 42637 Sir James Norman Dalrymple Anderson, professor of oriental laws: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 11872 Anthony John Arkell, archaeologist: papers rel to Egypt and Sudan link to online catalogue
- NRA 42649 Sir Thomas Walker Arnold, professor of arabic: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 42650 Alan Custance Baker, Malayan civil servant, and William Evans, resident councillor, Penang: corresp link to online catalogue
- NRA 37418 Gledhill Stanley Blatch, archaeologist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 42651 Wilfred Lawson Blythe, colonial administrator: papers rel to Malayan secret societies link to online catalogue
- NRA 11404 Edward Charles Mackintosh Bowra and Cecil Arthur Vernon Bowra, officials in the Chinese Maritime Cus link to online catalogue
- NRA 12965 British missionary societies
- NRA 26451 Butler's Wharf: company records survey
- NRA 37039 China Inland Mission link to online catalogue
- NRA 43197 Chinese Government Purchasing Commission link to online catalogue
- NRA 16588 Chinese Maritime Customs Service
- NRA 27886 Christian Aid link to online catalogue
- NRA 37026 Christian Concern for Southern Africa link to online catalogue
- NRA 42755 Patrick Devereaux Coates, civil servant: corresp and papers rel to China consuls link to online catalogue
- NRA 17234 Council for World Mission link to online catalogue
- NRA 42648 Tom Pearson Cromwell, colonial administrator: corresp link to online catalogue
- NRA 14595 Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Indian civil servant and diplomat: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 37414 Emily Dora Earthy, missionary: literary papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 43192 Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, anthropologist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 36925 John Sydenham Furnivall, colonial administrator: corresp and papers, mainly rel to Burma link to online catalogue
- NRA 42763 Wilson Herbert Geller and Mabel Love Geller, missionaries: diaries link to online catalogue
- NRA 42761 Margaret Mackeson Green, reader in West African languages and cultures: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 43774 Edward Peregrine Gueritz, colonial administrator: collected papers rel to the British North Borneo link to online catalogue
- NRA 42654 Malcolm Guthrie, professor of Bantu languages: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 37419 Andrew Augustus Gordon Hake, clergyman and sociologist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 43196 James Trenchard Hardyman, missionary: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 10511 Sir Robert Hart and James Duncan Campbell: corresp rel to China link to online catalogue
- NRA 37417 Eugenie Jane Andrina Henderson, linguistic scholar: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 36976 Henry Vincent Hodson, economist and editor: corresp rel to the partition of India link to online catalogue
- NRA 42752 George Wynn Brereton Huntingford, lecturer in East African languages and cultures: corresp and pape link to online catalogue
- NRA 43399 Lebanon Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders link to online catalogue
- NRA 37038 James Legge, missionary and sinologist: family corresp link to online catalogue
- NRA 42660 London University, School of Oriental and African Studies Library: misc accessions
- NRA 10517 Lt-Colonel David Lockhart Robinson Lorimer: linguistic papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 10515 Sir William Mackinnon, 1st Bt, shipowner: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 10514 Sir Frederick Maze, Chinese Maritime Customs Service: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 42929 David McLean, banker: corresp link to online catalogue
- NRA 43052 Medical Services Ministries, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 37420 Melanesian Mission link to online catalogue
- NRA 43054 Roland Lyon Nosworthy Michell, Egyptian administrator: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 37415 William Millman, missionary: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 43400 Frances Robert Moraes, journalist: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 27885 Movement for Colonial Freedom link to online catalogue
- NRA 37034 Sir Alwyne George Neville Ogden, diplomat: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 10 Paget family, Marquesses of Anglesey: family and estate papers
- NRA 42757 Bishwa Nath Pandey, lecturer in modern Indian history: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 42751 Melvin Lee Perlman, American anthropologist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 42750 Soloman Tshekisho Plaatje, South African author and statesman: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 33452 Ifor Ball Powell, historian: corresp and papers rel to the Philippines link to online catalogue
- NRA 36922 Sir John Thomas Pratt, diplomat: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 16792 Presbyterian Church of England: Foreign Missions Committee link to online catalogue
- NRA 10516 Sidney Herbert Ray, anthropologist: linguistic corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 37413 Charles Granston Richards, missionary and publisher: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 43053 Edward Denison Ross, orientalist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 42788 Maurice Woodforde Scott, businessman: personal and family corresp and papers rel to China link to online catalogue
- NRA 43401 William Gawan Sewell, chemist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 36951 Mabel Shaw, missionary: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 19823 John Swire & Sons Ltd, merchants, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 37416 John Boden Thomson and Elizabeth Thomson, missionaries: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 37365 Robert Benjamin Ageh Wellesley Cole, physician: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 42653 Wilfred Howard Whiteley, professor in Bantu languages: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
Accessions
These are selected lists of new or additional collections that were acquired by this archive during a specific year. If a date is not displayed there are no accessions for that year.
