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Crabtree, William Arthur


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0102 MS 380335

Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies

Title: Crabtree, William Arthur

Date(s): Created 1902-1921

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 boxes

Name of creator(s): Crabtree | William Arthur | b 1868 | missionary and philologist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

William Arthur Crabtree was born c1868, at Darlington. He was educated at St. Peter's School, York and King's School, Canterbury. He also attended St. Catharine's College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. He obtained a BA in 1889. In 1890 he trained at the Church Missionary College. On 23 November 1891 he was posted to the East Equatorial Africa Mission, Frere Town, with the Church Missionary Society. From 1892 to 1906, he worked as a missionary explorer in Uganda. His publications included Elements of Luganda Grammar, Together with Exercises and Vocabulary (1902, revised 1921), A Manual of Lu-Ganda (1921), and Primitive Speech (2 parts, 1922).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, 1902-1921, collected by William Arthur Crabtree, including a card index of English/Bantu and Bantu/English vocabularies, incorporating 13 different Bantu languages and symbols relating to their hypothetical common roots, with some tentative conclusions about Bantu origins, together with material on Luganda and Kavirondo (Masaba dialect).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English, Bantu, Luganda, Kavirondo

System of arrangement:

The material has been arranged into the following sections: Bantu origins; Luganda; Kavirondo (Masaba dialect); miscellaneous.

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Unpublished handlist.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Bequeathed to SOAS and presented in 1982.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Papers of Crabtree are held at the Church Missionary Society Archive, University of Birmingham Library.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Date(s) of descriptions: 15 May 2000


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Bantu languages | African languages
Indexes | Secondary documents
Lay missionaries | Missionaries | Religious groups
Vocabularies | Lexicography
Linguistics

Personal names
Crabtree | William Arthur | b 1868 | missionary and philologist

Corporate names
Church Missionary Society

Places
East Africa