WILSON, Sir Arnold Talbot (1884-1940)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0402 ATW
Held at	: Royal Geographical Society   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Collections/Collections.htm ›
Full title	: WILSON, Sir Arnold Talbot (1884-1940)
Date(s)	: 1911-1940
Level of description	: collection
Extent	: 1 box file
Name of creator(s)	: Wilson | Sir | Arnold Talbot | 1884-1940 | Knight | soldier, explorer, politician and author

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1884; educated, Clifton and Sandhurst; served in 32 Sikh Pioneers; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (Life Member), 1907-1940; Indian Political Department, 1909; British Commissioner on the Turco-Persian Boundary Commission, 1914; political officer with Indian Expeditionary Force, Mesopotamia; Deputy Civil Commissioner, 1916; Acting Civil Commissioner and Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, 1918-1920; Anglo-Persian oil company, 1920-1932; MP, 1933; Pilot Officer in the RAF, Oct 1939; died in action, Nov 1940.

Publications:
The Persian Gulf, by Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson, (Oxford, Clarendan Press, 1928).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Arnold Talbot Wilson, 1911-1940, comprising a journal and other papers of the then Capt A T Wilson, in Luristan, South West Persia, 1911-1912, with a supplement of miscellaneous notes and correspondence numbered 1-24 and reviews and related correspondence, 1928-1938, relating to Wilson's book The Persian Gulf, (Oxford, Clarendan Press, 1928).

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

One box file containing the two documents. Original order.

Conditions governing access:

Accessed via the Foyle Reading Room. Free of charge for Fellows, Members and those with valid academic identification. All other users pay a charge and must bring identification in order to register on arrival.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopying at the discretion of the Archivist, subject to completion of 'application for copies' form. No reproduction or publication without permission of the RGS-IBG Archivist.

Finding aids:

Handlist available in the RGS reading room.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown

Allied Materials

Related material:

RGS Archives - Correspondence Blocks: Wilson, A T, 1911-29, 1921-1930, 1931-1940.

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Prepared by an archives volunteer using existing finding aids. Rrevised by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Obit.: The Geographical Journal, Vol. 97, No. 1 (Jan., 1941), pp 72.

Rules or conventions:
ISAD(G) ed.2, name authority NRA.

Date(s) of descriptions:
29^th November 2000; May 2008