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LLOYD, Edward Mayow Hastings (1889-1968)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0101 ICS 49

Held at: Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Title: LLOYD, Edward Mayow Hastings (1889-1968)

Date(s): 1928

Level of description: Collection (Fonds)

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Lloyd | Edward Mayow Hastings | 1889-1968 | civil servant

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Edward Mayow Hastings Lloyd: Born 1889; educated at Rugby School and Corpus Christi College Oxford; joined Inland Revenue, 1913; War Office Contracts Department, 1914-1917; Ministry of Food, 1917-1919; Economic and Financial Section of the League of Nations Secretariat, 1919-1921; Assistant Secretary, Empire Marketing Board, 1926-1933; Secretary, Market Supply Committee, 1933-1936; Assistant Director, Food (Defence Plans) Dept, 1936-1939; Principal Asst Secretary, Ministry of Food, 1939-1942; Economic Adviser to Minister of State, Middle East, 1942-1944; UNRRA Economic and Financial Adviser for the Balkans, 1945; CMG 1945; UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, 1946-1947; Under-Secretary, Min. of Food, 1947-1953; CB 1952; died 1968.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, slides and photographs of Edward Mayow Hastings Lloyd relating to a visit to Malaya, Ceylon and Java, in 1928, as Assistant Secretary of the Empire Marketing Board, with William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore (later 4th Baron Harlech), Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies. Comprising box of slides of Malaya, Ceylon and Java, particularly views of agriculture and forestry; photograph album presented to Lloyd by C E A Dias, showing experimental and productive work on his estate in Ceylon; diary notes relating to visit and copy of Ormsby-Gore's official report on the visit (HMSO 1928 Cmd. 3235).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Collection arranged by type, as described above.

Conditions governing access:

Open although advance notice should be given. Access to individual items may be restricted under the Data Protection Act or the Freedom of Information Act.

Conditions governing reproduction:

A photocopying service is available at the discretion of the Library staff. Copies are supplied solely for research and private study. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Information Resources Manager.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Catalogued to item level (see link to repository catalogue).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to ICS by Mrs Margaret Lloyd, 1976.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

ICS holds papers of Sir Stephen Tallents, Secretary of the Empire Marketing Board (ICS 79).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description ISAD(G), 2nd edition, 2001. National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Oct 2001


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Cultivation | Agronomy
Farmers | Rural population | Rural areas
Agriculture
Forestry

Personal names
Dias | C E A | fl 1928 | estate owner in Ceylon
Gore | William George Arthur | Ormsby- | 1885-1964 | 4th Baron Harlech | politician x Harlech | 4th Baron x Ormsby-Gore | William George Arthur
Lloyd | Edward Mayow Hastings | 1889-1968 | civil servant

Corporate names
Empire Marketing Board

Places
Java | Indonesia | South East Asia
Malaysia | South East Asia
Sri Lanka | South Asia
Ceylon x Sri Lanka
Dutch East Indies x Indonesia