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Arden-Clarke, Sir Charles Noble


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0102 MS 380596

Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies

Title: Arden-Clarke, Sir Charles Noble

Date(s): 1949-1957

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 3 files

Name of creator(s): Clarke | Sir | Charles Noble | Arden- | 1898-1962 | Knight | colonial governor

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in India, 1898; educated at Rossall School; joined the Machine Gun Corps, 1917; served in France, Germany and southern Russia, 1917-1920; joined the Colonial Administrative Service, 1920; Administrative Officer, Northern Nigeria, 1920-1933; Acting Principal Assistant Secretary, Nigerian Secretariat, 1934-1936; Assistant Resident Commissioner and Government Secretary, Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1936; Resident Commissioner, Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1937-1942; Resident Commissioner, Basutoland, 1942-1946; Knight,1946; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Sarawak, 1946-1949; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gold Coast, 1949-1957; oversaw the independence of Ghana as first Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief, 1957; retired, 1957; Honorary DCL, Durham, 1958; Chairman of the Royal African Society, 1959; Chairman of the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind, 1959; Chairman of the National Council for the Supply of Teachers Overseas, 1960; member of the Monckton Commission on central Africa, 1960; died, 1962.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, 1949-1957, of Sir Charles Noble Arden-Clarke, giving an insight into events during the transition of the Gold Coast to independent Ghana, including the State of Emergency (1950). The papers comprise typescripts of speeches to local clubs and societies, discussions with the Legislative Council, and some correspondence arranging meetings, 1949-1957, including two congratulatory telegrams received on the independence of Ghana, 1956, and speech when sworn in as Governor-General of Ghana, 1957; text of a radio broadcast on democracy and elections at the General Election, 1956; other papers, 1954-1957, comprising letters received congratulating him on his work, legal documents concerning a libel by the Ghana Nationalist newspaper, articles on Arden-Clarke from The Observer and The Ghana Evening News, and copy letter by Arden-Clarke concerning appointment of the next Governor of Ghana, 1957.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Database.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Acquired in 1994.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Sources: Dictionary of National Biography; Who Was Who.

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: Jun 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Associations | Organizations
Clubs | Leisure time activities | Leisure
Colonial administration | Colonial countries | Political systems
Decolonization | Colonial countries | Political systems
Democracy | Political systems
Elections | Electoral systems | Internal politics
Legal documents | Law
Legal procedure | Administration of justice
Legal systems | Law
Political crises | Internal politics
Programme content | Broadcasting programmes | Broadcasting
Radio programmes | Radio | Broadcasting
Self government | Political systems
Documents

Personal names
Clarke | Sir | Charles Noble | Arden- | 1898-1962 | Knight | colonial governor x Arden-Clarke | Sir | Charles Noble

Corporate names
Ghana Nationalist | newspaper
Ghana | Governor-General
Ghana | Legislative Council

Places
Ghana | West Africa | Africa
Gold Coast x Ghana