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HOLLIS, Sir Alfred Claud (1874-1961): notes on the history of Vumba, East Africa


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1446 MS 1

Held at: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

Title: HOLLIS, Sir Alfred Claud (1874-1961): notes on the history of Vumba, East Africa

Date(s): 1899

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 bound volume of hand-typed notes with autograph annotations

Name of creator(s): Hollis | Sir | Alfred Claud | 1874-1961 | Knight | Colonial administrator

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1874; served as British Resident to the Sultan of Zanzibar, 1923-1929; Governor of Trinidad and Tobago, 1930-1936; died 1961.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Notes on the history of Vumba by Sir Alfred Claud Hollis, 1899, comprising genealogical notes on the history of Vumba, East Africa, with an account of the descendants of its Diwans.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Single volume, lined paper in hard covers with hand annotated reprint of author's 'Notes on the history of Vumba, East Africa' from the Journal of the Anthropological Institute vol. XXX 1900.

Conditions governing access:

Appointments are necessary for all visits; please contact the archivist by email to arrange; a fee of £10 is payable by all visitors except Fellows and Members; membership details can be found on the RAI web site; access to material referring to the most recent thirty years is restricted; some material is very fragile and may not be available for view; a few items are of restricted or forbidden access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies and scans for personal research only may be arranged at the discretion of the archivist; charges apply; in all cases forms governing use of copies must be signed; use of digital cameras is not allowed.

Physical characteristics:

Fragile document.

Finding aids:

None

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presumed deposited by author.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Twelve manuscript volumes of Hollis's autobiography held at Oxford University, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Walpole.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: January 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
African history | National history
Genealogy
History

Personal names
Hollis | Sir | Alfred Claud | 1874-1961 | Knight | Colonial administrator

Corporate names

Places
East Africa