Hake, George Gordon

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0102 PP MS 40
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	: Hake, George Gordon
Date(s)	: Created 1891-1904
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 4 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Hake | George Gordon | 1847-1903 | South African businessman

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

George Gordon Hake was born in 1847. He spent thirteen years from 1891 working in southern Africa, initially with the British South Africa Company and later with the Tanganyika Telegraph Service during 1889 and 1903 in the Mashonaland area. He died in 1903 and was buried at Port Herald.

George Gordon Hake was closely connected to the Rossetti family in their later years, acting as a 'minder' to Dante Gabriel Rossetti during one of their family holidays. Christina Rossetti was also godmother to his daughter Ursula.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, 1891-1904, of and relating to George Hake, comprising his letters, 1891-1903, to his wife and children during the time of his work in southern Africa; a letter concerning his death, 1904; miscellaneous material collected by Hake, comprising extracts of correspondence relating to the British South Africa Company in Mashonaland and Matabeleland, 1893, and copies of the Rhodesia Chronicle and Mashonaland Advertiser, 1892-1893.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The correspondence is arranged in chronological order.

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Unpublished handlist.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 1964.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The School of Oriental and African Studies also holds the papers of George Gordon Hake's grandson, Andrew Hake (Ref: PP MS 46).

Letters to the Hakes from Christina Rossetti are held at the British Library.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:

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Date(s) of descriptions:
16 May 2000