Robert Staveley Boumphrey (b1916) was Assistant Auditor, Nigeria, from 1939, Auditor, Falkland Islands, from 1947, Senior Auditor, Federation of Malaya, from 1951 and Singapore from 1955. He became Principal Auditor, then Deputy Director, Audit, Singapore, 1958-1959.

Journals of service as auditor in the Colonial Service in Nigeria, the Falkland Islands, Malaya and Singapore, with letters, photographs, maps and printed material inserted, 1910-1965.

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Listed as no. 563 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Typescripts, Two lives, an autobiography (containing an account of career as Auditor in the Colonial Service in Nigeria, the Falkland Islands, Malaya and Singapore, 1939-1959) (ref. MSS. Brit Emp. s. 418)

Boumphrey | Robert Staveley | auditor in the colonial service

Great Britain | Colonies | Administration

Singapore | History | 20th century

Malaya | History | 20th century

Nigeria | History | 1900-1960

Falkland Islands | History | 20th century