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Lawrance, Jeremy


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0102 MS 380573

Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies

Title: Lawrance, Jeremy

Date(s): 1955-1957

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Lawrance | Jeremy Charles Dalton | fl 1955-1994 | colonial administrator and linguist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Jeremy Lawrance was a District Commissioner in Karamoja, Uganda, for two years and in Teso for five years during the 1950s. Publications: The Iteso: fifty years of change in a Nilo-Hamitic tribe of Uganda (1957); with J H Hilder, An introduction to the Ateso language (1957); with J H Hilder, An English-Ateso and Ateso-English vocabulary (1958).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, 1955-1957 and undated, of Jeremy Lawrance on Ugandan languages, comprising typescript on Teso proverbs and riddles [1950s], with letter from John Hilders, Soroti Teacher Training College (of the Mill Hill Mission), Uganda, 1955; typescripts by A W Henriksen, 1957, 'Notes on the Teso verb' and 'Notes on the Preposition in Ateso', produced by the Mill Hill Fathers, Tororo, Uganda; undated typescript on the conjugation of verbs by John Hilders, probably the Teso language [1950s]; undated typescript Akarimojong grammar by the Rev Father Farina of the Catholic Mission, Kaangole [1950s].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English, Teso (Ateso) and Akarimojong (Karamojong)

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Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

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Database.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented by Jeremy Lawrance in 1994.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Catholics | Christians | Religious groups
Grammar | Linguistics
Missionaries | Religious groups
Proverbs | Folk literature | Literary forms and genres | Literature
African languages

Personal names
Henriksen | A W | fl 1957 | linguist
Hilders | John | fl 1955 | missionary
Lawrance | Jeremy Charles Dalton | fl 1955-1994 | colonial administrator and linguist

Corporate names

Places
Uganda | East Africa