IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0101 ICS 27
Held at: Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Title: BANTOCK, J R Granville (fl 1921-1936)
Date(s): 1921-1936
Level of description: Collection (Fonds)
Extent: 8 files
Name of creator(s): Bantock | J R Granville | fl 1921-1936 | police officer in Ceylon
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
J R Granville Bantock: Assistant Superintendent of Police, Ceylon, 1931-1928; Superintendent, Crime Branch, Colombo, Ceylon, 1931-1936.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of J R Granville Bantock on his career with the Ceylon Police Force, 1921-1936; including personal correspondence, 1922-1938; papers on visit of the Prince of Wales [later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor], 1922; papers on visit of the Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden, Dec 1922; papers on the role of the police during elections, 1931-1932; report by H L Dowbiggin, Inspector-General of Police, on disturbance at Eraviur, Eastern Province, 1933; report by Bantock on strike at spinning and weaving mills, Wellawatte, 1937; notes on poison gasses; copies of lectures on criminal law; Weekly Reports, 1921-1936, comprising record of inspections, parades, rounds and visits to crime scenes [very brief accounts of day-to day work].
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Chronological
Conditions governing access:
Open although advance notice should be given.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Usual conditions
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Catalogued to item level (see link to repository catalogue).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Souce of acquisition by ICS is unknown.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
The ICS has several other collections relating to administration in Ceylon, including Edward Trevor Dyson (ICS 16), John Ferguson (ICS 86), M W Roberts (ICS 65), T W Roberts (ICS 66), Guy Mainwaring (ICS 51), R M G Moneypenny (ICS 90) and M E Westrop (ICS 104).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.
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: Created 6/09/2001.