Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Browne, Cecil Pownall
Dates of creation: [c. 1904-1926]
Extent: 2 files
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections: Sudan Archive
Created by: Browne, Cecil Pownall
Language:
English
(1876 - 1965)
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| 1902-1904 | Blue Nile Province |
| 1905-1906 | Sennar Province |
| 1906-1909 | Blue Nile Province |
| 1910-1912 | Upper Nile Province |
| 1913 | Blue Nile Province |
| 1913-1921 | Governor Berber Province (from 1914) |
| 1922-1926 | Governor Kassala |
| 1924 | Retired |
C.P. Browne and T.A. Leach, also of the Sudan Political Service, were married to two sisters, Margaret and Jessie Laing, who first travelled to the Sudan in 1919 with their father on business. For further photographs of C.P. Browne and his wife,
see the collection of T.A. Leach
1. Articles
2. Photographic Material
Presented by Mrs M. Browne, 1966, and Mrs B. Towers, 1987
Catalogue
1. Articles
SAD.422/14/1-32
[n.d. and 1904]
Series of short stories about the people of the Sudan written by Browne during his early years in the Sudan and entitled
“The wander years” (SAD.422/14/1-4); “A washing” (422/14/5); “A king's daughter” (SAD.422/14/6-7); “Prayer”
(SAD.422/14/8-9); “A shereef” (SAD.422/14//10-11); “A hotbed” (SAD.422/14/12-15); “Marshland” (SAD.422/14/16); “A
garden” (SAD.422/14/17-18); “Lonely pool” (SAD.422/14/19-21); “A great rain” (SAD.422/14/22-24); “A prophet” (SAD.422/14/25-28);
“The price of blood” (SAD.422/14/29-30); “Ishad” (SAD.422/14/31- 32)
2. Photographic Material
SAD.773/6/1-30
[c. 1912 - 1926]
Group of photographs, mostly unidentified, and many of them printed on postcards:
SAD.773/6/1-16
Crowds gathered at Shendi, possibly for the arrival of Viscount Allenby in 1920
SAD.773/6/17-18
Two triumphal arches, one for Viscount and Viscountess Allenby, the other for Jackson Pasha
SAD.773/6/19
Governor's house at Halfa (postcard)
SAD.773/6/21-25
Nile scenes, including palm trees and Nile steamer
SAD.773/6/30
Crowds surrounding aeroplane
