Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Piper, William George
Dates of creation: [c. 1000 BCE]; 1919-1953
Extent: 0.5 box
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: Piper, William George
Language:
English
(1901 - 2000)
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| 1927-1938 | Confidential Clerk, Public Security Intelligence Branch, Civil Secretariat |
| 1938-1945 | Head Staff Clerk (Registry), Civil Secretariat |
| 1945-1947 | Deputy Assistant Civil Secretary (Administration) and Cypher Officer, Civil Secretariat |
| 1947-1953 | Archivist, Civil Secretariat |
1. Official Papers
2. Personal papers
3. Lectures
4. Photographic Material
5. Miscellanea
6. Museum Objects
7. Newspapers Cuttings
8. Printed Material
Presented by Piper, 1988-1996
Catalogue
1. Official Papers
SAD.830/6/1
1919 Mar 15-18
Letter from the Honorary Secretary of the British Junior Officials' Central Committee to Sir Lee Stack concerning salaries and pensions, with acknowledgement from the Private Secretary
SAD.830/6/2-8
1936-1946
Leaflets naming the officers of the Khartoum Club
SAD.830/6/9-11
1950 Jan-Mar
Circulars concerning the establishment of the Senior Civil Servants' Association of the Sudan (W.G. Piper was the founder and first Honorary Secretary)
2. Personal Papers
SAD.882/7/1-5
1953
Papers relating to W.G. Piper's departure from the Sudan in 1953 including an invitation from Mr and Mrs Piper to a farewell cocktail party, extracts from
The Sudan star, the Information Office Bulletin and the Sudan Monthly Record concerning W.G. Piper's retirement, and testimonial from Sir James Robertson, former Civil Secretary
3. Lectures
SAD.830/6/12-27
1945
Copy of Douglas Newbold's lecture on General Gordon, given at the Clergy House Supper Club
4. Photographic Material
SAD.887/4/1-5
[mid-20th century]
Personal photographs of W.G. Piper, friends and colleagues
SAD.887/4/2
Christmas 1938
Group of government officials wearing lounge suits and pith helmets. Left to right: W.G. Piper, Peason, “Brookie” [J.J. Brooks], Dawson, Baber, Miller, McKeirnan and [A.J.] “Jock”
Kenny, Khartoum Club
SAD.887/4/3
[mid-20th century]
Group of friends in fancy dress at a Khartoum Club dance
SAD.887/4/4
[mid-20th century]
Group of friends in evening dress at a Khartoum Club dance
SAD.887/4/5
[1939 x 1945]
Members of the Khartoum Club in dinner dress or military uniform; W.G. Piper seated in front row second from right.
Back row, left to right: W.W. Buck (Customs), Terry, Warren, Smith, Starkey, Stone. 5th row, left to right: W. Jarman (Railways), F. Stokes (Posts & Telegraphs), C.F. Royston (Economics & Trade), Martindill, McArthur. 4th row, left to
right: W.A. Tartellin (Economics & Trade), A.C.W. Hayday (Economics & Trade), Bolton, Hollard, C.V. Waite (Public Works), Allison, H.A.L. Tunley (Agriculture), B.C. Salisbury (Education). 3rd row, left to right: Dunn, Hurcomb, A.H. House
(Civil Secretary's Office), Holcroft, McKinnon, F.G.W. Hobro (Posts & Telegraphs), Hassack, Ross. 2nd row, left to right: V.H.G. Vokes (Finance), P.C. Bryson (Steamers), Williams, Shaw, H.F. Wilby (Steamers), Boyd, Clarke, J. Horne (Surveys),
Abdin. Front row, seated left to right: Clarke, Canon Harper, R.J. Head (Audit), Miller, H. Stanford (Public Works), Evans, T.C. Eddy (Civil Secretary's Office), C.E. Leech (Public Works), J.H. Seaman (Public Works), W.G. Piper (Civil Secretary's
Office), Hirst
SAD.844/3/1-18
[mid-20th century]
Photographs taken during W.G. Piper's time in the Sudan
SAD.844/3/1
1932
Heightening the Asswan Dam
SAD.844/3/2
[mid-20th century]
Maulid al-Nabi celebrations
SAD.844/3/3-4
[mid-20th century]
Governor-General reviewing the Camel Corps
SAD.844/3/5-7
[mid-20th century]
Military Tattoo
SAD.844/3/8-9
[mid-20th century]
Palace garden party
SAD.844/3/10
[1934 x 1940]
Sir Stewart Symes presenting decorations
SAD.844/3/11-12
1952 Feb 15
Memorial service for King George VI
SAD.844/3/13-14
1953 Feb 14
Sir Robert Howe announcing the signing of the Anglo-Egyptian Agreement to a crowd
SAD.844/3/15
[mid-20th century]
Young Hadanduwah man
SAD.844/3/16
[mid-20th century]
Gordon statue
SAD.844/3/17
[mid-20th century]
Saqiyah
SAD.844/3/18
[mid-20th century]
Native boat on the Nile
SAD.844/3/19-21
[mid-20th century]
Postcards of Suakin: Caravanserai and street scenes
SAD.844/6/1
1952
Calendar for 1953 with an illustration of the War Office and Secretariat, Khartoum
SAD.840/1/1-4; SAD.840/2/1-4
1932-[1952]
Group photographs of the staff of government departments (for names of individuals see photograph database)
SAD.840/1/1
1939 x 1941
Staff of the Civil Secretary's Office outside the Secretariat or central government office building. Featuring, front row, from second left to right: K.D.D. Henderson; E.J.N. Wallis; G.R. Bredin, Deputy Civil Secretary; D. Newbold, Civil
Secretary; J.C. Penney; possibly H.M. Watt; possibly Corbyn. Second row from second left to right: H.C. Holt; C. Waite; C.R. Wilson; A.H. House; W. Frost; E.S. Atiyah; unidentified man; W.G. Piper; H. Blood; A. Cooper; A.J. Kenny
SAD.840/1/2
1932 Jan
Staff of the Public Security Intelligence Branch. Front row, from left to right: S.H. Ringrose; E.C. Haselden; S. Atiyah; J.C. Penney; C.E. Fouracres; H.E. Floridia; E.S. Atiyah. Middle row, from left to right: P.G. Roussos; Mrs Goodfellow; Mrs
Root; W.G. Piper; T.O. Harding; Mrs Hunt; Miss Penzopoulo, Ibrahim 'Abd al-Qadir. Back row, from left to right: Farah Muhammad; Kheirallah Salih; Haq abu Bakr 'Abd 'Allah; Shaykh 'Awad 'Uthman; Haq 'Abd Allah Salim; 'Abd al-Faraq Hamid; Yusuf
Bashir. Seated on ground: Bushra Abbakr (left); Mahmud Muhammad (right)
SAD.840/1/3
1933 Nov 25
Civil Secretary's Office
SAD.840/1/4
1939 x 1945
Aerodrome gun team, Sudan Auxilary Defence Force, during World War Two. Back row, from left to right: Mustafa Hamad; Muhammad Diab Mahi; Shukrallah Mikha'il; H.M. Hufi; Muhammad al-Faqi; Hadallah 'Abd al-Qadir; Muhammad abu Gesseisa; Muhammad
al-Hasan; Muhammad 'Ali; Ibrahim Surial. Middle row, from left to right: unidentified man; W.G. Piper; T.C. Eddy; R.C. Garrett; A.H. House; J.B. Segal; A.R. Jole; Izzedine 'Abd al-Rahman. Front row, from left to right: M. Hamawi; al-Rafah al-Siddiq;
M. Papadopoulos
SAD.840/2/1
1947 Mar
Governor-General's Council. Seated, from left to right: C.C.G. Cumings, Acting Legal Secretary; Sir Edington Miller, Financial Secretary; Major-General Sir Hubert Huddleston, Governor-General; J.W. Robertson, Civil Secretary; C.W. Williams.
Standing, from left to right: G.R.F. Bredin; R.H. Robertson; W.G. Piper, Acting Secretary
SAD.840/2/2
1948 Apr
Governor-General's Council. Seated, from left to right: C.C.G. Cumings, Legal Secretary; Sir Edington Miller, Financial Secretary; Sir Robert Howe, Governor-General; Sir James Robertson, Civil Secretary; General Whistler, Kaid al-Amm. Standing,
from left to right: R.J. Hillard (Director Department of Economics and Trade); C.W. Williams (Director of Education); G.R.F. Bredin (Governor Gezira Province); R.H. Robertson (General Manager Sudan Railways); Dr J. Smith (Director of Agriculture and
Forests); W.G. Piper, Acting Secretary
SAD.840/2/3
1950 Jan 4
Staff of the Civil Secretary's Office. Front row (seated), from left to right: T.C. Eddy; T. M. McCowan; E.H. Nightingale; C.A.G. Wallis; E.W. Thomas; J.W. Robertson, Civil Secretary; Sayyid 'Abd al-Salim 'Abd Allah; J.M. Kyles; D. Hawkesworth;
H.B. Arber; Captain C.C. Beaty-Pownall. Second row, from left to right: Hamid al-Sa'id; C.T. Jones; H. Colville-Stewart; B.D. Dee; T.H.B. Mynors; W.H.T. Luce; G.R. Leather Barrow, W.G. Piper; H. Blood; A.D. Tennyson; Mahmud Mansur. Third row, from
left to right: D.R. Gee Smythe; W.W.W. Lynton; H.C. Holt; Ahmad Makki; A. Cooper; W.A. Green; Babikr Muhammad al-Dib; J.R. Shaw; R.T. Roe; B.A.G. Picton; Muhammad Tahir Farid. Fouth row, from left to right: 'Abd al-Qadir Yusuf; 'Abd al-Ghani Ahmad;
Yusuf al-Tinay; 'Uthman Qad al-Rab; 'Ali Mahmud Ra'afat; Khalil Sabir; Ahmad Hamdi; 'Abd al-Mun'im Midhat, Musa Laz. Back row, from left to right: Salih Muhammad Tahir; 'Umar Mahmud; Nur al-Din Ghandur; Hamid al-Sid al-Fil; 'Abd Allah Waqi Allah;
Badawi al-Shafi; Hanna Manious
SAD.840/2/4
[1952]
Staff of the Civil Secretary's Office. Featuring, front row (seated), from second left to right: A.M. Wynne; P. Hogg; T.H.B. Mynors; J. Winder; A.C. Beaton; J.W. Robertson, Civil Secretary; Sayyid 'Abd al-Salim 'Abd Allah; L. M. Buchanan; G.W.
Bell; R.G. Dingwall; and Babikr Muhammad al-Dib (far right). Second row: P.H.C. Pawson (far left); Ahmad Makki (fourth left); A. Jole (fifth left); R. J. Thomson (seventh right); M.P. Whitlock (sixth right); H. Colville-Stewart (fifth right); Khalil
'Abd al-Mabi (second right) J.S.R. Duncan (far right). Third row: R.J. Smith (second left); W.G. Piper (sixth left); C.F. Royston (fouth right)
5. Miscellanea
SAD.830/6/28-32
1947-1950
Various items of ephemera, including orders of service for the memorial services of Sir Hubert Huddleston and Sir Douglas Newbold, and humorous items
6. Museum Objects
SAD.830/7/1
[c. 1000 B.C.]
Egyptian funerary statuette (
ushabti) found in W.G. Piper's garden in 1932. Made of faience with a blue-green glaze
Size: 58mm
7. Newspaper Cuttings
SAD.830/6/33-39
1943-1951
Cuttings from
The Sudan Star: humorous items, the retirement of Sir Hubert Huddleston (SAD.830/6/35), the marriage of Bishop Gelsthorpe (SAD.830/6/36-38), and the closure of the Khartoum Club (SAD.830/6/39)
8. 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
Henderson, K.D.D., Survey of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1898-1941 (London, 1941?)
Henderson, K.D.D., Survey of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1898-1944 (London, 1946)
A descriptive note on the tower, the windows and carvings of the chancel of the Cathedral Church of All Saints, Khartoum (1931)
Khartoum, the Khartoum Club: Rules (Khartoum, 1946)
Royal Institute Of International Affairs: Great Britain and Egypt 1914-1936 (Information Department Papers, no.19 (London, 1936)
The Anglican Diocese of the Sudan. A handbook (1951)
The Church in Khartoum; Historical and descriptive notes on the Sudan, Khartoum and the Anglican Cathedral (2nd edition, 1942)
The Church in Khartoum. The Servicemen's blue book (1946)
Introducing the Diocese of the Sudan (1946)
Sudan, British Civil Servants' Association: Rules and Constitution (Khartoum, 1950)
Sudan, Civil Secretary's Office, Information Office: The composite infantry battalion of the Eastern Arab Corps, Sudan Defence Force, in the Abyssinian Campaign by G. Gifford (Khartoum, 1942)
Sudan, Civil Secretary's Office, Public Relations Office: 101 facts about the Sudan (1947)
Sudan, Civil Secretary's Office, Public Relations Office: 1001 facts about the Sudan as on 1-1-52 (Khartoum, 1952)
Sudan, Civil Secretary's Office, Information Office: Meadowforce by A.C. Beaton (Khartoum, 1942)
The Sudan. A record of progress, 1898-1947
Sudan, Expatriate Civil Servants' Association: Rules and Constitution (Khartoum, 1953)
Sudan, The Junior Sudan Club: Rules, regulations, bye-laws and list of members 1911-12 (London, 1911)
Sudan, The Sudan Club: Rules and by-laws (Khartoum, 1952)
The Sudan. The road ahead. Report to the Fabian Colonial Bureau (London, 1945)
Sudan verse (1963)
Sudan pensions? They only serve who stand and wait ...? (1961)
Sudan Government Gazette no. 791 Special legislative supplement dated 19th June 1948
