Peter Herriott Balmer (OBE) was born in 1921 and educated at the Prince of Wales School in Nairobi; Cheltenham College; and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was on military service during 1941 to 1943 (captain).

Balmer entered the Colonial Administrative Service as a cadet in 1942. He was posted to Nigeria where he later held the posts of Administrative Officer, class II, in the Western Region (1954); Administrative Officer, class I (1957); and Administrative Officer, staff grade (1957-1960). Between 1955 and 1956 Balmer was also Electoral Commissioner.

Memorandum on the effects of self-government in Western Nigeria upon British civil servants (1957), with press cuttings, leave certificates, etc., and a file of Nigerian photographs (1956-1959).

Deposited with the Oxford Development Records Project.

The collection was transferred to the library from the Oxford Development Records Project.

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Listed as no. 1286 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Balmer | Peter Herriott | b 1921 | Colonial Administrator

Autonomy | Nigeria, Western

Civil service | Nigeria, Western

Great Britain | Colonies | Nigeria, Western

Nigeria, Western | Politics and government

Nigeria | Pictorial works