DENHAM, Dixon (1786-1828)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0402 DD |
Held at | : Royal Geographical Society Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Collections/Collections.htm › |
Full title | : DENHAM, Dixon (1786-1828) |
Date(s) | : 1815-1827 |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 3 boxes and some oversized files stored separately. |
Name of creator(s) | : Denham | Dixon | 1786-1828 | explorer in Africa | Major |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1786; educated, Merchant Taylors' School, 1793-; briefly articled to a London solicitor; joined the army as a volunteer, 1811 and served in the Peninsula and in Belgium; instructor at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1818; led the expedition to trace the course of the Niger, 1822-1825; fellow of the Royal Society; appointment to reorganize the Liberated African department, Sierra Leone, 1827-1828; died, 1828.
Publications: Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa (1826)
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Journals, notebooks, papers and letters of Maj Dixon Denham, 1815-1827, chiefly relating to the Denham / Clapperton / Oudney expedition from Tripoli to Bornu 1821-1825; also including diaries kept during the Waterloo campaign and subsequent travels around Europe; papers relating to Ensign Tootle and to the Sahara expedition of 1822-1824.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English, also some items in Arabic
System of arrangement:
34 files, many with sub-files, items have been brought together from disparate sources over time and have not undergone any arrangement beyond the internal structure of the files.
Conditions governing access:
Open by appointment only, subject to completion of application form. Non-Fellows require a letter of reference.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopying at Archivist's discretion, and subject to completion of 'application for copies' form. No reproduction or publication without permission of the RGS-IBG Archivist.
Finding aids:
The RGS archives: a handlist / compiled by Christine Kelly. London: RGS, 1977.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Bulk of collection donated to the RGS by Maj. C. H. Denham in 1889.
Allied Materials
Related material:
National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Prepared by Huw Thomas, Archives Assistant using existing finding aids, DNB entry. Revised by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Oxford DNB.
Rules or conventions:
ISAD(G) ed.2, name authority NRA.
Date(s) of descriptions:
15th June 2000; Nov 2008.
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