Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Hamilton, John Almeric de Courcy
Dates of creation: 1925-1965
Extent: 0.5 box
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections: Sudan Archive
Created by: Hamilton, John Almeric de Courcy
Language:
English
(1896 - 1973)
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| 1920-1921 | A.D.C., Darfur |
| 1922-1923 | Dep. Asst. Civil Secretary (Personnel) |
| 1924-1927 | A.D.C., Kassala |
| 1928-1932 | D.C., Bara and El Obeid, Kordofan |
| 1932-1933 | Asst. Sudan Agent, Cairo |
| 1933-1935 | Sudan Agent, Cairo |
| 1935 | Seconded to the Egyptian Government |
| 1937-1941 | Seconded to the British Embassy, Cairo |
| 1941-1942 | Acting Counsellor and Charge d'Affairs, British Legation, Beirut |
| 1942-1946 | Minister of State's Representative with Paiforce, Bagdad and Teheran; Minster of State's office, Cairo |
| 1946 | Retired |
1. Memoirs
2. Articles, Speeches
Presented by Hamilton, 1966
1. Memoirs
SAD.490/4/2-200
1959 May 1
Memoirs of J.A.de C. Hamilton: a series of papers written over a number of years and arranged chronologically, covering J.A.de C. Hamilton's service in the Sudan Political Service, 1920-46 and in the Foreign Office, 1946-57
SAD.490/4/12-91
Papers of a general nature as background to J.A.de C. Hamilton's career
SAD.490/4/92-142
Life in Darfur and Khartoum, 1920-23
SAD.490/4/143-168
Life in Kassala and Kordofan, 1924-32
SAD.490/4/181-200
Lectures
SAD.490/2/1-152; 490/3/1-133
[n.d. c. 1965]
“Obiter scripta” by J.A.de C. Hamilton, a series of anecdotes and accounts of amusing experiences, chiefly from J.A.de C. Hamilton's life. They cover the period 1914 to the late 1950's and include references to
J.A.de C. Hamilton's First World War Service and life in the Sudan and Egypt. The arrangement is not chronological
2. Articles, Speeches
SAD.490/5/1-6
1925
“The Hadendowa tribe of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan” (published in the Central Asian Society Journal), by J.A.de C. Hamilton
SAD.304/12/8-10
1936 Feb 14
“Pan Islamic Arab movement” by J.A.de C. Hamilton
SAD.490/5/12-17
1956 Apr 1
“The Suez Canal and all that” by J.A.de C. Hamilton
SAD.490/4/1
1957 Jul
“Baraka” by J.A.de C. Hamilton (printed copy)
SAD.304/12/1-6
[n.d., ca. 1935]
“Devolutionary principles in native administration” by J.A.de C. Hamilton (from The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan from within [1935])
SAD.490/5/18-29
[n.d.]
“A note for probationers” [of the S.P.S.]
SAD.490/5/7-11
1949
“It just isn't true”, an address given at the Middle East Centre of Arab Studies in Aug 1949
SAD.490/5/30-48
1957 May
“Some thoughts on Middle East problems”, an introductory lecture by J.A.de C. Hamilton at London University
SAD.490/5/49-72
1960 May 4
“The Nasser regime in Egypt” by J.A.de C. Hamilton
