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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
- John Sparks Ltd, Chinese art dealer London
- John Swire & Sons Ltd, oriental merchants and shipowners London
- Perak Sugar Cultivation Co Ltd Kalumpong, Malaya
- Sarawak Rubber Estates Ltd London
- Serdang Central Plantations Ltd London
- Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Co of Hongkong Ltd, shipbuilders and repairers Hong Kong
- The Kalumpong Rubber Co Ltd London
Organisations (62)
- Advisory Committee on Oriental Materials
- Afghanaid
- 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
- Churches of Christ Missionary Committee India;Thailand;Malawi
- 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
- HMS Lizard (1886)
- HMS Rapid (1883)
- 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
- 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
- Philological Society
- Presbyterian Church of England Overseas Missions Committee
- Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
- Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) London
- Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding
- SOS Sahel International UK
- 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 (313)
- 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 teacher
- 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
- 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), Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, statesman
- Davenport, Cecil John, (1863-1926), medical missionary
- Davidson, Basil Risbridger, (1914-2010), author and historian
- 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
- Fitzmaurice, Henry Charles Keith, (1845-1927), 5th Marquess of Landsdowne, statesman
- 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, (1874-1967), Chinese Maritime Customs officer Exeter, Devon
- Helmore, Holloway, (1815-1860), missionary
- Henderson, Eugenie Jane Andrina, (1914-1989), 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 Henry 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), 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
- Martin, Plaut, (b 1950), journalist, editor and government advisor
- 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
- Newens, Arthur Stanley, (1930-2021), politician
- 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
- Philip, John, (1775-1851), South African Missionary
- Plaatje, Soloman Tshekisho, (1876-1932), South African Author and Statesman
- 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, (1908-2001), 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, (b1936), knight, 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
- Wellesley Cole, Robert Benjamin Ageh, (1907-1995), surgeon and writer Sierra Leone
- 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 Nigeria;Benin;Burkina Faso;Cameroon;Gambia;Senegal
- Ashton, William, Missionary
- Bailey, S F, (fl 1967-1983), civil servant in Kenya and Hong Kong
- Banks, Alexander L, (fl 1899-1949), missionary India
- Beckingsale, Laura Elsie, (1886-1983), Missionary Teacher China
- Bell, Elizabeth Hope, Nurse China
- Blacklock, Eric, (fl 1961-1980), missionary
- Carswell, John, (fl 1970), professor
- Davis, Richard Beattie, (1922-2008), chartered surveyor and collector
- Ewing, Archibald, Missionary China
- Fidler, William, Methodist Missionary St Vincent
- Francis, David Lloyd, (fl1920-1990), missionary Papua New Guinea
- Hirst, Godfrey, (b 1873), sailor and Bible salesman China
- Hughes, Gertrude, (d 2012), medical missionary
- Liberty, Edith, (d1978), missionary Taiwan;Philippines
- Liberty, Eric, (d1971), missionary Taiwan;Philippines
- Mather, Percy Cunningham, (1911-1933), Missionary China
- May, John, Missionary
- Milledge, James Sibree, (b1930), missionary Madagascar
- Newell, J E, Missionary
- Newham, Helen Maxwell, (1896-1974), Teacher Namibia
- Parsons, Edith Annie Kate, (b 1876), Missionary China
- Pratt, Benjamin, (1853-1931), Methodist Minister Hyderabad, India
- Price, Isabella, (fl 1858-1860), missionary
- Price, May Annie, (fl 1937-1945), missionary China
- Reed, George Cullen Harvey, (fl 1916-1917), missionary
- Rees, Emily Sarah, (c1878-1960), missionary India
- Rice, Professor David Storm, (1913-62), Archaeologist
- Ridge, William Sheldon, (1875-1945), Teacher, Journalist Selby, Yorkshire
- Rose, Dorothy, (d 2001) China;West Africa
- Rose, John Richard, (d 1998), doctor China;West Africa
- Seager, Cecil, (b 1908), Missionary
- Sinton, J R, (1941-1946), Missionary Chungking, China
- Stagg, Charles H, Schoolmaster Madagascar
- Stevens, Emmie, Missionary Singapore;China
- Sung, John, Missionary China
- Terrell, William G, Missionary China
- Tippett, Charlotte, Missionary China
- Warren, W H, Missionary Shaohsing, China
- Wedlock, Dora, Naval Wife Ceylon;China;Hong Kong
- Withers, Henrietta Ethel Frances, (B1889), Schoolteacher Chefoo, China
- Wright, Robert Stewart, 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
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