Identity area
Reference code
MSS.Afr.s.1863
Title
Papers of Ivor F.W. Schofield
Date(s)
- 1927-1970 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
11 boxes
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Ivor Frederick Wentworth Schofield, CMG (1957) ED (1943), was born on the 5 July 1904. He was educated at King's School in Worcester and Hertford College, Oxford. In 1927 Schofield joined the Colonial Administrative Service as a cadet in Nigeria, later serving as Resident (1949) and Administrative Officer, Staff Grade, in the Western Region (1954). In 1958 he was appointed Commissioner of the Inland Revenue in the Western Region; he retired in 1959 but was re-engaged on contract until December 1960. Over the next ten years Schofield worked in southern Cameroon, as Administrator of Income Tax (1960-1961), and in the Gambia, as Commissioner of Income Tax (1964-1966) and Adviser on Income Tax (1967-1970). During World War II, he served with the Royal West African Frontier Force (1940-1942), and with the British Military Administration in Tripolitania (1942-1943) and in Dodecanese (1943-1945). Schofield died on the 25 September 1979.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Correspondence, reports, photographs, cinefilms, etc., relating to administrative service in Nigeria, and to work as Income Tax Adviser to the Government in Gambia.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Bodleian readers ticket required.
Conditions governing reproduction
Rights to access and re-use digital objects: Unknown Rights to access and re-use archival descriptive information: Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, ShareAlike No reproduction or publication of personal papers without permission. Contact the library in the first instance.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
https://www.archivesportaleurope.net/ead-display/-/ead/pl/aicode/GB-161/type/fa/id/gb161-mss.afr.s.1863 The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room and a handlist is also available for this collection. Listed as no. 1399 inManuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
{{Data source}} Archive Portal Europe The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room and a handlist is also available for this collection. Listed as no. 1399 inManuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
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Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Schofield, Ivor Frederick Wentworth (Creator)
- Great Britain Colonial Administrative Service (Subject)
- Schofield, Ivor Frederick Wentworth (Subject)