Scott, George Cuthbert
Introduction
George Cuthbert Scott
Arrangement

Catalogue
1. Official Papers
2. Notebooks
3. Photographic Material
4. Museum Object
5. Printed material
Separated printed material now in Durham University Library
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: Scott, George Cuthbert
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. Notebooks
3. Photographic Material
4. Museum Object
5. Printed Material

Accession details

Presented by Mrs H. Lupton, 1981-1982 & 1995

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. Notebooks
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)
Index terms
Autobiographies
SAD.800/16-800/18
c.1969
Three notebooks of a revised draft of the above
Index terms
Autobiographies
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
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Objects

Digitised material for Ceremonial robe - SAD.801/1
5. 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


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