Acheson, Guy Francis Hamilton, and Bowra, Cecil Arthur Verner

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0102 MS 211354
Held at	: School of Oriental and African Studies   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.soas.ac.uk/Archives/home.html ›
Full title	: Acheson, Guy Francis Hamilton, and Bowra, Cecil Arthur Verner
Date(s)	: 1921-1924
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 volume
Name of creator(s)	: Acheson | Guy Francis Hamilton | fl 1921-1924 | Chinese Maritime Customs official Bowra | Cecil Arthur Verner | 1869-1947 | Chinese Maritime Customs official

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Cecil Arthur Verner Bowra (b 1869) joined the Chinese Maritime Customs and arrived in China in 1886. With the appointment of Sir Francis Aglen as Inspector-General Bowra was made Chief Secretary in Peking (1910-1923). The post meant that he became Acting Inspector-General when Aglen was on leave in 1911 and 1917. Bowra retired in 1923 but was subsequently employed in the London Office of Chinese Maritime Customs. He died in 1947.

Sir Francis Arthur Aglen (1869-1932) joined the Chinese Maritime Customs in 1888. He was Acting Inspector-General in 1910 before succeeding Sir Robert Hart in 1911, serving as Inspector-General until his retirement in 1928.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript and typescript letterbook containing letters from Guy Francis Hamilton Acheson, 1921-1924, and Cecil Arthur Verner Bowra, 1924, in the London Office of the Inspectorate General of Chinese Maritime Customs, to Sir Francis Arthur Aglen in Peking (Beijing), including some enclosures.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Chronological.

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Letter series Z, nos 309-386.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1967.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The School of Oriental and African Studies holds other papers relating to the Chinese Maritime Customs, comprising letters of Sir Francis Aglen to G F H Acheson and C A V Bowra (Ref: MS 211355), papers of Edward Charles Macintosh Bowra and Cecil Arthur Verner Bowra (Ref: PP MS 69), George H Fitzroy (Ref: MS 258361), Sir Frederick Maze (Ref: PP MS 2), and Sir Robert Hart (Ref: PP MS 67), copies of Sir Robert Hart's letters to Sir F A Aglen (Ref: MS 211081), and copies of Sir Robert Hart's correspondence with J D Campbell (Ref: MS 211351, 211353). See published guide: Papers Relating to the Chinese Maritime Customs 1860-1943.

The Second Historical Archives of China, Nanjing, hold the administrative archive of the Chinese Maritime Customs.

Publication note:

Description Notes

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:
Aug 2002