Papers of G.A. Herklots

Single Item

MSS. Ind. Ocn. s. 356

Request
this

Order this material to a Weston Library reading room

This material can be requested via the online system, where you can monitor the progress of your order.

Help

Two posters and one original drawing promoting the British War Organization Fund in Hong Kong, [1939-1941].

Dates

Creation: [1939-1941]

Extent

3 items

Language of Materials

English

Preferred Citation

Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MSS. Ind. Ocn. s. 356].

Please see our help page for further guidance on citing archives and manuscripts.

Shelfmark:

MSS. Ind. Ocn. s. 356

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 2345

Additional Description

Biographical / Historical

G.A.C. Herklots (1902-86), CBE (1961) was educated at Trent College, Derbyshire, Leeds University and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was made Secretary for Development, Hong Kong, 1946, Secretary for Colonial Agricultural Res[ources] and Secretary of the Committee for Colonial Agriculture, Animal Health and For[estry] Res[ources], Colonial Office, 1948. He served as Principal, I.C.T.A., from 1953.

Other Finding Aids

The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The papers were donated to the library by Jeremy Herklots on 9th December 1998.

Separated Materials

Photographs of Tang Yin Wei's plant drawings and three books by Herklots on Hong Kong trees and vegetables were sent to the University's Department of Plant Sciences, a book and offprint on fish to the Radcliffe Science Library.