Dodwell, Henry Herbert

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0102 MS 380667
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	: Dodwell, Henry Herbert
Date(s)	: Created 1753-1936
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: Dodwell | Henry Herbert | 1879-1946 | historian

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Henry Herbert Dodwell was born in 1879. He was educated at Thames Grammar School and St. John's College, Oxford. He married Lily May in 1908. He was Professor of History and Culture of the British Dominions in Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies from 1922-1946. He edited two volumes of The Cambridge History of India (Cambridge University Press, 1929 and 1932) and The Founder of Modern Egypt: a study of Muhamad 'Ali (1931). He died on 13 June 1946.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, 1753-1936, collected by Professor H H Dodwell, comprising illustrations, letters and papers relating to India, including an eyewitness account of the Mutiny at Cawnpore (April 1858).

Access & 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.

Finding aids:

Unpublished handlist.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated in 1989.

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Date(s) of descriptions:
15 May 2000