Collection KEOWN-BOYD - KEOWN-BOYD, Sir Alexander (1884-1954)

Key Information

Reference code

KEOWN-BOYD

Title

KEOWN-BOYD, Sir Alexander (1884-1954)

Date(s)

  • 1919-1922 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 file or 0.01m3

Scope and content

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.

System of arrangement

1 file

General Information

Name of creator

(1884-1954)

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.

Custodial history

Presented to the Centre by the family, July 2006

Conditions governing access

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

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.

Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Finding aids

This collection level description.

Related materials

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

Related descriptions

Note

Decorations: CBE, OBE

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Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

Script(s)

Archivist's note

Entry compiled by Katharine Higgon

Accession area