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Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

KEOWN-BOYD, Sir Alexander (1884-1954)

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Keown-Boyd

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: KEOWN-BOYD, Sir Alexander (1884-1954)

Date(s): 1919-1922

Level of description: Collection level

Extent: 1 file or 0.01m3

Name of creator(s): Keown-Boyd | Sir | Alexander | 1884-1954 | Knight

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1884; educated Merchant Taylors' School and St John's College, Oxford; Sudan Civil Service, 1907-1916; Private Secretary to the High Commissioner for Egypt, 1917-1919; Oriental Secretary to the High Commissioner for Egypt, 1919-1922; Director General, Foreign Affairs, Egyptian Government, 1922; Director General, European Department, Ministry of the Interior, Egyptian Government, 1923-1937; died 1954.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Sir Alexander Keown-Boyd comprising correspondence, 1920-1922, from FM Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and of Felixstowe, then High Commissioner for Egypt, to Keown-Boyd, Oriental Secretary, discussing proposals to change staff at the Foreign Office, September 1921; the assassination of Henry Wilson by Irish Republicans, June 1922; and comparison of Anglo-Irish and Anglo-Egyptian relations. Also invitation, details of arrangements and dinner seating plan for the admission to the Freedom of the City of London of FM Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and of Felixstowe, 7 Oct 1919.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 file

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archives and Information Management.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide entry on-line.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family, July 2006

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Related material:

The Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives holds the papers of FM Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and of Felixstowe, 1881-1955.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: CBE, OBE

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Katharine Higgon.