Scott, George Cuthbert
Introduction
George Cuthbert Scott
Arrangement

Catalogue
1. Official Papers
2. Books
3. Photographic Material
4. Museum Object
Printed material
Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Scott, George Cuthbert
Dates of creation: 1936-1969
Extent: 2 boxes
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: material relating to service in the Sudan
Language: English

George Cuthbert Scott

(1898-1978)

1916-1918 Royal Field Artillery (France, Belgium)
1922-1925 A.D.C. Nyala, Darfur
1925-1928 A.D.C. Tokar, Red Sea
1929 A.D.C. Tokar, Nomad (Beja) Administration
1930 A.D.C. Khartoum H.Q.
1931 Inspector, Education Department
1932-1933 Chief Inspector, Education Department
1933-1935 D.C. Bara, Kordofan
1936 Chief Inspector, Education Department
1937-1943 Warden, Gordon Memorial College
1943-1944 Assistant Principal, Higher Schools
1944-1946 Vice-Principal, University College of Khartoum
1946 Retired
1946-1949 Educational research work, University College of Khartoum
1950-1952 Director of Education, British Administration, Tripolitania


Arrangement

1. Official Papers
2. Books
3. Photographic Material
4. Museum Object
5. Printed Material

Catalogue
1. Official Papers
SAD.800/6/1-2
1937-1943
Draft letter from G.C. Scott to the editor of El-Nil concerning education at the Gordon Memorial College
2. Books
SAD.800/7-800/15
c.1969
Nine notebooks of a preliminary draft of a translation of Babikr Bedri's memoirs, made by Yousef Bedri and G.C. Scott ( The Memoirs of Babikr Bedri, vol.1, Oxford University Press 1969)
SAD.800/16-800/18
c.1969
Three notebooks of a revised draft of the above
3. Photographic Material
SAD.791/3/1
1936 Oct 24
G.C. Scott welcomed by the girl guides troop of the Nahda Coptic school, El Obeid
SAD.791/3/2
1946-1952
G.C. Scott in group photograph
SAD.791/3/3-8
[n.d.]
Photographs of G.C. Scott's house and garden
SAD.791/3/9
[n.d.]
"A political beano"
SAD.791/3/10-17
[n.d.]
Scenes of a country market
SAD.791/3/10
Shop selling sugar-loaves
SAD.791/3/11
Meeting friends
SAD.791/3/12
Women arriving at the market
SAD.791/3/13
The country blacksmith
SAD.791/3/14
Selling onions, tomatoes, monkey-nuts and unleavened bread
SAD.791/3/15
Early in the morning
SAD.791/3/16
Buying onions
SAD.791/3/17
Examining bundles of onions
SAD.791/3/18-19
[n.d.]
Nomad Arabs
SAD.791/3/20
[n.d.]
Nomad shaykhs with their children; one shaykh wears a "Robe of Honour"
SAD.791/3/21
[n.d.]
Desert scene
SAD.791/3/22
[n.d.]
Nomads at the well
SAD.791/3/23
[n.d.]
Two policemen, a shaykh and G.C. Scott riding camels
SAD.791/3/24
[n.d.]
A well by a sand-dune
SAD.791/3/25
[n.d.]
The baggage camels and ponies
SAD.791/3/26
[n.d.]
Koran-school pupil and government elementary school pupil
SAD.791/3/27-30
[n.d.]
Scenes of the Nile
SAD.791/3/27
A saqia
SAD.791/3/28
A shaduf
SAD.791/3/29-30
Boat on the Nile
SAD.791/3/31
[n.d.]
Sudanese men and a British woman on trek
SAD.791/3/32
[n.d.]
The Valley of the Kings
SAD.791/3/34-35
[n.d.]
Unidentified harbour scenes
4. Museum Object
SAD.801/1
[n.d.]
Ceremonial robe black with gold border and tassles
Size: 108 x 143cm
Printed material
Durham University Library Printed material deposited with collection; now integrated into library and catalogued on OPAC.
`Abd Al-`Aziz Amin `Abd Al-Najid: al-Murshid al-`Arabi (1944)
Ahmad `Abd Allah Sami, al-Rimal al-zami`a (Cairo 1963)
Ahmad Shafiq Pasha, El-Hajj: Mudhakkirafi fi nisf qarn, pt.3: `Abbas wal-harb al-`azma 1915-1923 (Cairo n.d.)
Brackenburg, G., Progressive Arabic Course (Al-Maaref, Cairo n.d. [dupl])
Elias A., Elias Modern Dictionary Arabic-English (5th edition Cairo n.d. [dupl])
Greek New Testament (dupl)
Griffiths, V.L. and `Abd Al-Rahman Ali Taha, Sudan Courtesy Customs (1936 [dupl])
Hava, J.G., Arabic-English Dictionary (Catholic Press 1951 [dupl])
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, No.2 1970 (dupl)
Leims, A Handbook of Diplomatic and Political Arabic (Luzac, London 1944)
Makki Shibaikah, Ta`rikh shu`ub wadi` I-Nil (Misr wa`l-Sudan) fi`l-qarn al-tasi `ashr al-miladi Dar al-Thaqafah, Beirut
Mekki Abbas; The Sudan Question, the dispute over the Anglo- Egyptian condominium, 1884-1951 (Faber & Faber, London 1952)
al Qisas al-mukhtarah pt.1 (Khartoum 1942)
Strevens, P., Spoken Language (1956 [dupl])
Van Ess, J, Spoken Arabic of Iraq (second edition: Oxford University Press 1938 [dupl])
Ziadeh, F.J. & Winder, R.B., An Introduction to Modern Arabic (Princeton University Press 1957)