Thomas Jones Stevens was an agriculturalist who served as Livestock Officer in Nigeria (1927-1942) and as Agricultural Officer in Gambia (1942-1944). From 1950-1952 he was in Cyrenaica, under the Foreign Office. Stevens returned to Nigeria in 1954 where he worked for the Western Regional Production Board until his death in 1956. He held a Diploma in Agriculture from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Official reports and correspondence relating to the work of administrative officers in the Gombe Division, Bauchi Province, Northern Nigeria. With the exception of a few items, this collection has no connection with Stevens' work and came into his possession by chance.

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

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Listed as no. 500 in Manuscript Collections (excluding Africana) in Rhodes House Library, Oxford, Supplement, compiled by Louis B. Frewer (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1971).

Stevens | Thomas Jones | d 1956 | Agriculturalist

Nigeria, Northern | Officials and employees