Sir Matthew Nathan (1862-1939) was a soldier and civil servant. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

The papers are arranged chronologically in the following sections corresponding to Nathan's career. R.H. indicates that these papers are kept in Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House:

• Diaries, 1881-1939
• Notebooks, 1876-1939
• Private correspondence, 1868-1939
• Royal Engineers' School, Chatham, 1880-4
• Sudan Expedition, 1884-5 R.H.
• Lushai Expedition, 1889-94
• Royal Engineers, 1894-5
• Colonial Defence Committee, 1896-8
• Governor of Sierra Leone, 1899-1900 R.H.
• Governor of the Gold Coast, 1900-3 R.H.
• Governor of Hong Kong, 1903-7 R.H.
• Governor of Natal, 1907-9 R.H.
• Secretary to the General Post Office
• Pacific Cable Board, 1910-15
• Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, 1911-14
• Committee on the transfer of stamp manufacture and distribution, 1911-14
• Royal Commission on the Civil Service, 1912
• Committee on Crown Employment, 1912-13
• Inland Revenue vote, 1913
• Committee on the Civil Employment of ex-soldiers, 1914-19
• Under-secretary for Ireland, 1914-16
• London Defences, 1916
• Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions, 1916-19
• Special Grants Committee, 1917-20
• Overseas Settlement Committee, 1919-20 R.H.
• Governor of Queensland, 1920-25 R.H.
• Committee on Geophysical Surveying, 1927-8 R.H.
• Advisory Committee on Rubber, 1926-8 R.H.
• Commission on the constitution of Ceylon, 1927-8 R.H.
• Civil Research Committee and the Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1925-38 R.H.
• The City of Westminster Health Society, 1921-30
• Irrigation Research Committee, 1928-30 R.H.
• Miscellaneous papers

The papers were given to the Library in 1961 by Mr E.J. Nathan.

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Some private correspondence is reserved from use and has consequently been omitted from the catalogue.

A full catalogue (without an index) is available in the Library.

Civil service

Nathan | Matthew | 1862-1939 | Sir | Knight Lieutenant Colonel Colonial Governor

Great Britain and Ireland | Board of Inland Revenue

City of Westminster Health Society

Great Britain and Ireland | Civil Research Committee

Great Britain and Ireland | Colonial Defence Committee

Great Britain and Ireland | General Post Office

Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Irrigation Research Committee

Great Britain and Ireland | Ministry of Pensions

Great Britain and Ireland | Oversea Settlement Committee

Great Britain and Ireland | Pacific Cable Board

Great Britain and Ireland | Royal Commission on the Civil Service

Great Britain and Ireland | Army | Royal Engineers

Royal Engineers' School | Chatham (England)

Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Colonial Office | Special Commission on the Constitution of Ceylon

Great Britain | Colonies | Australia | Administration | 20th century

Great Britain | Colonies | Gold Coast | Administration | 20th century

Great Britain | Colonies | Hong Kong | Administration | 20th century

Great Britain | Colonies | Natal | Administration | 20th century

Great Britain | Colonies | Sierra Leone | Administration | 19th century

Great Britain | Politics and government | 19th century

Great Britain | Politics and government | 20th century

Ireland | History | 1910-1921

Sudan | History | 1881-1899