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Organisations (11)
- Alfred, whaler
- Bombay Club Bombay, India
- British Association of Malaysia and Singapore
- Commonwealth Producers Organisation London
- Entebbe Club Entebbe, Uganda
- General Association for the Australian Colonies
- Houghton (5), east indiaman
- Imperial Federation League
- Joint Africa Board London
- Royal Commonwealth Society London
- School Empire Tours Committee
Persons (119)
- Allardyce, Sir William Lamond (1861-1930) Knight, colonial governor
- Arthur, Sir George (1784-1854) 1st Baronet Lieutenant General Colonial Governor
- Banks, Frederick Grant (1875-1954) African Explorer
- Bell, Sir Henry Hesketh Joudou (1864-1952) Knight Colonial Governor
- Bell, William (c 1833-1916) Botanist
- Benson, John Seymour (1911-1986), geologist and mining engineer
- Bowen, Donald (b 1917), artist and museum curator
- Bower, Sir Graham John (1848-1933), Knight, colonial administrator
- Braddock, Edward (1695-1755) Major General
- Bramley, Percy Brooke (1867-1925) Director of Public Security in Palestine
- Brewster, Adolf Brewster (1854-1937), anthropologist
- Brown, David (1778-1825), planter in Penang
- Buchanan-Smith, Sir Walter (1879-1944), Knight, colonial administrator
- Burney, Henry (1792-1845), Lieutenant Colonel Bengal Army, diplomat
- Butler, Sir William Francis (1838-1910) Knight Lieutenant General Author
- Cambridge, George William Frederick Charles (1819-1904) 2nd Duke of Cambridge, Field Marshal
- Cansdale, George Soper (1909-1993) zoologist
- Carrington, Charles Edmund (1897-1990), historian and biographer
- Casey, Agnes (fl 1900) Missionary in South Africa
- Cavendish, Spencer Compton (1833-1908) 8th Duke of Devonshire, statesman
- Childers, Edmund Spencer Eardley (1854-1919), author
- Childers, Hugh Culling Eardley (1827-1896), statesman
- Christy, Cuthbert (1863-1932), explorer and zoologist
- Clarke, Sir Andrew (1824-1902) Knight Lieutenant General Colonial Administrator
- Coillard, Francois (1834-1904) French Missionary in Africa
- Colquhoun, James (1780-1855) Hanseatic Consul General in Britain
- Coote, John Methuen (fl 1903-1962), Political Officer in Uganda
- Corner, Edred John Henry (1906-1996), botanist
- Cust, Robert Needham (1821-1909) Orientalist
- D'Aguilar, Sir George Charles (1784-1855) Knight, Lieutenant General
- Davis, Nicholas Darnell (1846-1915), historian
- Day, Sir Albert Cecil (1885-1963) Knight Civil Servant
- Despard, Henry (d 1859) Major General
- Dick, James (1862-1926), businessman and soldier South Africa
- Dixon, Sir Charles William (1888-1976) Knight, civil servant
- Dunn, Edward John (1844-1937) Geologist
- Eddy, Charles Walter (1821-1874), Hon Secretary to the Working Mens Association for Promoting Emigration
- Edgar, Thomas Leslie (1919-1998), civil servant in Kenya
- Frome, Edward Charles (1802-1890) General
- Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898), statesman
- Glover, Sir John Hawley (1829-1885) Knight Captain RN Colonial Governor
- Goldsworthy, Sir Roger Tuckfield (1839-1900) Knight Colonial Governor
- Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885) Major General China
- Gouger, Robert (1802-1846) Colonial Secretary to South Australia
- Gowers, Sir William Frederic (1875-1954) Knight Colonial Administrator
- Gray, Sir John Milner (1889-1970) Knight, colonial administrator
- Haggard, Sir Henry Rider (1856-1925) Knight, novelist
- Harding, Sir Edward John (1880-1954) Knight Colonial Administrator
- Hebbert, Henry Eric (1893-1980), Colonel Royal Engineers and engineer in the Sudan Public Works Department
- Hennessy, Sir John Pope- (1834-1891) Knight Colonial Governor
- Hepple, Alexander (1904-1983), South African politician
- Herbert, Sir Robert George Wyndham (1831-1905), Knight, Colonial administrator
- Howley, William (1766-1848) Archbishop of Canterbury
- Jackson, Sir Frederick John (1860-1929) Knight Explorer Naturalist and Administrator
- Johnston, Sir Alexander (1775-1849), Knight, colonial administrator
- Johnston, Sir Harry Hamilton (1858-1927) Knight, explorer and colonial administrator
- Kelly, Wallace (b 1912) district commissioner Kenyan government
- Wodehouse, John (1826-1902) 1st Earl of Kimberley, statesman
- Lanning, Ernest Christian (1913-2012), Major Gold Coast Regiment, civil engineer and colonial administrator
- Le, Hugh Murton Fleming (1901-1961), railway engineer
- Mackinder, Sir Halford John (1861-1947) Knight MP Geographer
- Maxwell, Sir William George (1871-1959) Knight Colonial Administrator
- Mclean, Meta (1896-1969), teacher and musician
- Migeod, Frederick William Hugh (1872-1952) Colonial Administrator Botanist
- Moffat, Geoffrey (fl 1952-2005), field officer in colonial Nigeria
- Montagu, William Drogo (1823-1890) 7th Duke of Manchester
- Murdoch, George Brown (1836-1906), railway engineer
- Murison, Alexander Falconer (1847-1934), jurist and author
- Napier, William Craig Emilius (1818-1903) Major General
- Nathan, Sir Matthew (1862-1939) Knight Lieutenant Colonel Colonial Governor
- O'Kelly, Elizabeth (1915-2012), colonial officer Borneo
- Oliver, Roland Anthony (b 1923), historian
- Oxley, John (1781-1828) Australian Explorer
- Paice, Arnold (1879-1963) Tea Trader and Farmer in Africa
- Palmer, William Waldegrave (1859-1942) 2nd Earl of Selborne, statesman
- Parkin, Sir George Robert (1846-1922) Knight Educationalist and Imperial Federationist
- Perham, Dame Margery Freda (1895-1982), historian
- Phillips, William Edward (fl 1810-1826) Governor of Penang
- Pitman, Charles Robert Senhouse (1890-1975), colonial administrator ornithologist
- Ponsonby, Sir John (1866-1952) Knight Major General
- Powell, Wilfred (1853-1942), explorer and consular official
- Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford (1781-1826) Knight, colonial governor
- Rice, Reginald Kenneth (1890-1973) Engineer
- Roth, Henry Ling (1855-1925), ethnologist
- Rowe, Sir Samuel (1835-1888) Knight Surgeon Major Colonial Governor
- Sargent, Christopher Laurens (1893-1978), Major, East Kent Regiment and clergyman
- Sedgwick, Thomas (d 1929) Advocate of Juvenile Emigration
- Simpson, Donald Herbert (1920-2002), Librarian of the Royal Commonwealth Society
- Sinclair, John Houston (1871-1961) British Resident at Zanzibar
- Sitwell, Claude George Henry (1858-1900) Lieutenant Colonel Vice Consul in Uganda
- Sly, John Michael Alfred (b 1931), agronomist
- Smedley, Sir Harold (1920-2004) Knight, diplomat Worthing, Sussex
- Smyly, Sir Philip Crampton (1866-1953) Knight Colonial Administrator
- Spry, Sir John Farley (b 1910) Knight Chief Justice of Gibraltar
- Stanley, Edward Lyulph (1839-1925) 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley
- Steel, Robert Walter (1915-1997) geographer
- Stuart, Sir Campbell (1885-1972), Knight, newspaper manager
- Sugg, Aldhelm St John (b 1909), colonial administrator
- Swettenham, Sir Frank Athelstane (1850-1946) Knight, colonial administrator
- Temple, Merfyn (1919-2012), missionary and writer on Africa
- Thomas, Harold Beken (1888-1971), colonial administrator and historian
- Thompson, David (1770-1857) Explorer and Geographer
- Thompson, Reginald Sigston (b 1920), colonial administrator
- Tregear, Frederick Mansel Vincent (b 1905), Colonel
- Trevelyan, Sir George Otto (1838-1928) 2nd Baronet Statesman and Historian
- Turnbull, Sir Richard Gordon (1909-1998), Knight, colonial governor
- Tymms, Frederick (1889-1987), Knight, civil servant
- Val, Charles Du (d 1889) Entertainer
- Walker, Robert Henry (1857-1939) Archdeacon of Uganda
- Ward, Mary Alexandria (1866-1965), nurse
- Weatherstone, John (b 1927), historian of tea and coffee industries
- Wheeler, Guy Edmund (1921-1995) writer
- Wilkinson, Dorothy Grace (fl 1904-1965), teacher Ghana
- Williams, Sir Ralph Champneys (1848-1927) Knight Colonial Governor
- Wilson, Fergus Brunswick (1908-1999), Agricultural Officer, East African Colonial Service
- Wolseley, Garnet Joseph (1833-1913) Viscount Wolseley, Field Marshal
- Wood, Rodney Carrington (1889-1962), African naturalist
- Wright, William John Rainy (1911-1985), colonial administrator
- Young, Sir Frederick (1817-1913) Knight, traveller, writer on imperial affairs
Diaries (21)
- Anderson, Andrew Arthur (fl 1860-1880), explorer
- Barlow, Christopher Matthew (1898-1930) Colonial Administrator
- Brundle, Kenneth (fl 1938-1942), architect
- Cashmore, Thomas Herbert Richard (b 1928), colonial doctor of Kenya Kenya
- Dickson, W L (fl 1950-1959) Colonial Surveyor
- Field, Margaret Joyce (fl 1937-1971), Anthropologist of Gold Coast Gold Coast
- Fraser, TO (fl 1900)
- Hartley, Diana (1894-1986) Nursing Administrator In India India
- Hunter, Arthur C (fl 1888-1932)
- Laing, John William (b c1846) of India India;Egypt
- Latham, Lucy Clare (B1895) Teacher In Uganda Uganda
- Lawson, David Geoffrey Malloch (1895-1981) Colonial Administrator Malawi
- Loxton, Agnes (fl 1970-1987) Farmer, Bulawayo Bulawayo, Rhodesia
- Mann, A R H (fl 1927-1935), travel diarist and painter
- Norman, Luke (fl 1868-1870) Ivory Hunter Mozambique
- Rayment, Oliver Thomas Morton (1909-1940), soldier of Nigeria Nigeria
- Warren, Marjory (1898-1960) Consultant Physician
- Waterman, Alan Gardner- (1882-1953), soldier of India India
- Williams, Frederic Thesiger (fl1891-1902), soldier of India India
- Williams, George Howard (1893-1975), businessman of Palestine Palestine;Canada;Egypt
- Wilson, Amy Maria (1867-1957) Farmer South Africa
Families (2)
- Childers family of Cantley Cantley, Yorkshire
- Greg family of Coles Park Coles Park, Hertfordshire;Aldenham, Hertfordshire;Westmill, Hertfordshire;Hillsborough, Dominica
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (13)
- NRA 6388 Sir George Arthur: papers rel to British Honduras
- NRA 19215 Frederick Grant Banks letters
- NRA 36655 Charles Edmund Carrington, historian: papers rel to the Commonwealth link to online catalogue
- NRA 7123 Mother Agnes Casey: Boer War papers
- NRA 11163 HCE Childers and family: corresp and papers
- NRA 25316 Commonwealth Producers Organisation link to online catalogue
- NRA 6389 Sir John Glover: West Africa papers
- NRA 16875 Sir Henry Rider Haggard: Royal Colonial Institute mission
- NRA 25317 Ocean Island litigation records link to online catalogue
- NRA 25314 Royal Commonwealth Society Library: misc accessions
- NRA 1237 Straits Settlements Association link to online catalogue
- NRA 25315 Sir Campbell Stuart, public servant: papers rel to imperial communications link to online catalogue
- NRA 36654 Harold Beken Thomas, colonial administrator and historian: corresp, diaries and papers link to online catalogue
Accessions
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