Catalogue of the papers of F. and Mrs B.E. Crowther

Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Crowther, Frank and Mrs Beryl Edith
Dates of creation: 1934-1946
Extent: 1 file
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: Crowther, Frank and Mrs Beryl Edith
Language: English

Frank Crowther

(1905 - 1946)


	1928-1946	Sudan Agriculture Department
	1928-1934	Plant Physiologist, Gezira Research Farm, Wad Medani
	1934-1938	Employed by I.C.I.
	1938-1946	Plant Physiologist, Gezira Research Farm, Wad Medani (from 1940 Senior, then Chief Plant Physiologist)

Beryl Edith Crowther (née Bond)

(1901 - 1981)

Arrangement

1. Personal Papers

2. Photographic Material

3. Printed material

Accession details

Presented by Mrs B. Crowther, 1960

Catalogue

1. Personal Papers

SAD.8/51/10

[c. 1960]
Biographical note by Mrs B. Crowther of her career with the Sudan Education Department and her late husband's career with the Agriculture Department

2. Photographic Material

SAD.8/51/1-9

[c. 1928-1946]
Photographs of F. and B.E. Crowther during their time at the Gezira research farm in Wad Medani:

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SAD.8/51/2

[c. 1928-1946]
Portrait of Dr F. Crowther, plant physiologist

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SAD.8/51/1

1933 Aug 27
F. and B. E. Crowther standing on the steps of All Saints' Cathedral, Khartoum on their wedding day

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SAD.8/51/3-4

1934 Feb
Guests at a farewell tea party for F. and B. E. Crowther held at the Gezira research farm, Wad Medani, with list of those attending. Featuring, front row, from left to right: Dr. H. Greene, soil chemist; Reverend P. W. Guinness, chaplain, Wad Medani; Miss Ford, Jill Bailey's governess; Jill Bailey; Khalid Afandi Salih, chief field supervisor; M. A. Bailey, director, Gezira research farm; Mrs B. E. Crowther; F. Crowther; Muhammad Afandi al-Tum, clerk, plant physiology section; Mrs Bailey; Miss M. T. Myers, Church Missionary Society school; A. R. Lambert, plant physiologist; Miss Snow, Mrs Bailey's sister; E. MacKinnon, farm manager. Middle row, from left to right: Habib Afandi, statistician; Abu Bashir; 'Ali Arnaout; Fu'ad Afandi Buctor; F. W. Andrews, plant physiologist; H. E. King, plant breeder; R. L. Knight, plant breeder; A. H. Wood, entomologist; 'Abd al-'Aziz Afandi, plant physiology section; Muhammad Afandi Hasan, plant physiology section; W. Cowland, entomologist; O. W. Snow, soil chemist; H. Ross, librarian and clerk; Yafith Afandi al-'Iskofi, chief clerk; Mikha'il Afandi Butros. Back row, featuring: 'Abd al-Latif, Hasan 'Abd al-Rahman; Muhammad Afandi Na'um, plant physiology section; Muhammad 'Ali Afandi abu Gaseissa, plant physiology section; Muhammad Ahmad Afandi, plant physiology section; Husayn Zubayr, water carrier; Murghani al-Bashir, suffragi

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SAD.8/51/5

[c. 1940-1946]
F. Crowther with his two-year old son, Peter, and a pet cat, Kilimanjaro

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SAD.8/51/6

[c. 1940-1946]
Mrs B. E. Crowther with her two-year old son, Peter, Kilimanjaro

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SAD.8/51/7

[c. 1940]
Mrs B. E. Crowther sitting in a garden at the Gezira research farm, Wad Medani, reading next to a pram covered with a mosquito net

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SAD.8/51/8

[c. 1933-1946]
Major Pritchard sitting at the reins of a horse-drawn carriage accompanied by Mrs B. E. Crowther, Mrs E. Parker amd Miss M. T. Myers, Wad Medani

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SAD.8/51/9

[1946-1948]
Mrs B. E. Crowther sitting on the ground at the Gezira research farm, Wad Medani

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3. Printed material

Separated printed material now in Durham University Library

Printed material deposited with collection; now integrated into the library's printed collections and catalogued on the Open Public Access Catalogue

Crowther, Frank, Agricultural investigations in the Sudan : a review (Oxford : OUP, 1948). Reprinted (with additions) from Agriculture in the Sudan. At head of title: The Frank Crowther memorial volume.