Description of Special Collection

Collection Level Description: Cox, C.W.M.

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Collection name: Cox, C.W.M.

Collection code: GB 0033 SAD

Date range: 1915-1974

Extent: 14 boxes

Language: English

Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections

Part of : Sudan Archive

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Contents:
Official papers covering education including memoranda, reports etc. on government policy, southern education, individual schools, mission education, Bakht er Ruda, Gordon Memorial College, University College of Khartoum and Kitchener Memorial School of Medicine; correspondence with Sudan officials, teachers and missionaries; papers re the Makerere-Khartoum Commission, 1937 ; personal papers; diaries of inspection tours; articles, lectures and speeches; 128 photographs, S. Sudan 1930s, and return visits to Sudan in 1967 and 1974 ; newspaper cuttings; miscellanea; 1 map; printed material
About the creator:
Director of Education & Principal of Gordon Memorial College, 1937-1939 ; Education Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1940-1970
Provenance:
Presented by Dr I. McGilchrist, Cox's literary executor, 1982-1986; one additional gift from A.H.M. Kirk-Greene, 1982
Catalogues:
Online catalogue

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Index terms

Cox, Christopher William Machell, Sir, 1899-1982.
Bakht er Ruda. Institute of Education.
Kitchener Memorial School of Medicine.
University College of Khartoum.
Gordon Memorial College.
Lord De La Warr's Educational Commission, 1937.
Correspondence -- 20th century.
Diaries -- 20th century.
Photographs.
Education -- Sudan.
Missions -- Sudan.

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Date last modified: 25 November 2008