Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Baily, Robert (Robin) Edward Hartwell
Dates of creation: 1898-1972
Extent: 0.5 box
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: Baily, Robert (Robin) Edward Hartwell
Language:
English
(1885 - 1973)
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| 1909 | Sudan Political Service, Khartoum |
| 1910-1911 | Sudan Political Service, Kassala |
| 1911-1915 | 2nd Inspector, Shendi, Berber Province |
| 1915-1920 | 2nd Inspector, Singa, Sennar Province |
| 1920-1921 | 1st Inspector, Singa, Sennar province |
| 1921-1925 | Deputy Governor, Khartoum |
| 1926 | Acting Governor, Kassala |
| 1927-1933 | Governor, Kassala |
| 1933 | Retired from the Sudan Political Service |
| 1935-1938 | Secretary, Royal Empire Society |
His great uncle was Sir Samuel Baker who visited the Sudan in 1862. His maternal aunt was married to General Sir Elliott Wood. His mother was connected with Lieut. R.N. Smyth's family
1. Official Papers
2. Personal Papers
3. Historical Material
4. Photographic Material
5. Newspaper Cuttings
Presented by A.W.B. Strong, 2003
Catalogue
1. Official Papers
SAD.533/1/1-40
1919 May - Jun
Papers concerning the Sennar rising of 1919 including:
SAD.533/1/3-26
An account of the rising near Singa, Jun 1919 and the defeat and capture of the ring leader, Muhammad Sayyid Hamid, nephew of the Mahdi, a report by Baily
SAD.533/1/28
1919 May 20
Letter from Baily at Singa to C.A. Willis re Muhammad Sayyid Hamid and his emissaries
SAD.533/1/30-32
1919 Jun 11
Letter from Baily at Singa to Willis re Muhammad Sayyid Hamid's plan to flee to Khor Doleib and Abyssinia to proclaim a jihad against the government. Includes a short account of the 1919
uprising
SAD.533/1/33
1919 Jun
Extracts from official correspondence from A. Cameron, Governor Sennar Province to Civil Secretary, and from H.E. Governor-General, Lee Stack to Governor Sennar Province
SAD.533/1/35-37
1932 Jun 27
Text of speech by Bushara `Abd Allah, surraf, Kassala in honour of Baily's retirement including outburst against al-Sayyid Hamid and re Baily's bravery during the 1924 uprising
SAD.533/1/39
1919 Jul 3
Letter from Baily at Singa to his father, re the Egyptian rebellion
SAD.422/13/1-33; SAD.268/11/4-5
SAD.533/3/37-41
1932
Tributes to Baily on his departure from the Sudan from Kassala area dignitaries and Sudan Government officials, R.A.F., General Huddleston
2. Personal Papers
SAD.533/2/2
1924 Jul 3
Extract from letter from Sir George Schuster to Baily re the role of Zaghlul
SAD.533/2/4-11,14
1924 Jul 25 - Dec 10
Letters and copy extracts from letters from Baily to his parents concerning the mutiny in Khartoum and its aftermath
SAD.533/2/12-13
1924 Dec 10
Extracts from Baily's diaries on the repercussions of the mutiny and Sayyid `Ali Mirghani's fear that Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman was working to become King of the Sudan
SAD.533/2/17
1963 Sep 1
Extract from a letter from Reginald Davies, Director of Intelligence to Baily re the ambiguous position of Sudanese officers before the S.D.F. was set up in Nov 1924
SAD.533/2/5
1970 Dec
Note by Baily on the visit of a Labour Minister to a rural D.C. in Sudan in the 1920's
SAD.533/3/1-63
1919-1968
Personal papers including correspondence between H.L.R. Watt and Baily concerning the Singa rising in 1919 (SAD.533/3/1-2); letters home from Baily re a visit by Lord Allenby to Khartoum in 1922 (SAD.533/3/6-7), his farewell supper before the move to Kassala in 1926 (SAD.533/3/9) and a visit by H.R.H. the Crown Prince of Italy to Kassala in Feb 1928
(SAD.533/3/19); letters of farewell and congratulations on Baily's appointment as Governor of Kassala in 1926 (SAD.533/3/8,10,14-17); and correspondence from Baily to Lord Lloyd on his retirement as High Commissioner
in 1929, with reply (SAD.533/3/20-22); Peter [Acland] re the Suakin-Berber railway of 1885 (SAD.533/3/30-31) and re life in Port Sudan (SAD.533/3/32-37); tributes to Baily on leaving the
Sudan in 1932 (SAD.533/3/38-45); Shaikh Muhammad Ahmad Abu Sin, nazir of the Shukriyyah re the role and power of chiefs, formation of the Socialist Republican Party and pressure from Egypt
(SAD.533/3/51-59). Also includes:
SAD.533/3/4
1922 Feb 22
Translation of a speech by al-Ta`aisha on the occasion of Baily's visit to Ed Dueim
SAD.533/3/61
1935
Photograph of `Ali Fu`ad Wahby, enclosed in letter of 1966
SAD.533/4/1-47
1917-1970
Notes and recollections about Sudan and personalities by Baily:
SAD.533/4/2,47
Recollections of Mohi Bey, a former Turkish provincial governor, collected by W. Peter D. Clarke
SAD.533/4/3-6
Protest by an Egyptian Yuzbashi of an Egyptian battalion serving in the Sudan to his British C.O. about a horse
SAD.533/4/8
1917 May 23
Letter with sketches written by a member of the Egyptian Irrigation Department, H.M. Bond in Merowe to Peter Clarke. Description of Dongola Province under the rule of Jackson Pasha
SAD.533/4/16; SAD.533/4/62-65
1927 Mar 16
Letter in English by a Sudanese clerk requesting a rise of pay
SAD.533/4/12-14; SAD.533/4/17-18
c.1913
Anecdotes about Sir Arthur Huddleston
SAD.533/4/15
Anecdotes about Sir Lee and Lady Stack
SAD.533/4/16
Anecdote about `Ali Fu`ad Wahbi, A.D.C. Khartoum
SAD.533/4/19-35
c.1909-1924
Baily's early recollections of the Sudan from his arrival in 1910, and covering Kassala, Shendi, tales of Slatin and his fears of a Mahdist revival, an account of the 1919 rising near
Singa, west Africans and witchcraft, the rise of Sayyid `Abd al Rahman, inadequate British staff, `Abd Allah Khalib and the 1924 mutiny, Daud al-Khalifa; Rev. Llewellyn Gwynne and Gordon
SAD.533/4/36-39
Biographical notes on Sir and Lady Samuel Baker, Lt. Col. J.D.H. Stewart, Ahmad `Abd Allah?, chief executioner of the khalifa, Ahmad Bey Awad al-Karim Abu Sinand Ahmad Pasha Abu Widan of Kassala
SAD.533/4/40-41
c. 1972
Notes on Sir Sayyid `Ali al-Mirghani and Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman
SAD.533/4/42
1925 Aug 13
Extract from Baily's diary re Sayyid `Ali al-Mirghani
SAD.533/4/43
Note by Baily on Kamtor, a celebrated Gasmi family
SAD.533/4/44-46
Notes on the history of the Shukriyyah, Balahin and Ashraf tribes
SAD.533/4/48-67
1910-1931
Extracts from Baily's letters home including a description of a journey from Ed Damer to Kassala in 1910 (SAD.533/4/48-49); from Shendi in 1912 re the Bayuda desert and the battlefield
of Abu Klea (SAD.533/4/50-54); from Shendi in 1914 re meetings with Professor Sayce, Kitchener and Poupre (SAD.533/4/56); from Khartoum in 1922 describing a typical day's work
(SAD.533/4/57); from Mrs. Baily in 1922 re the arrival of the Stacks in Khartoum (SAD.533/4/58); from Khartoum in 1924 describing Lord Allenby's visit (SAD.533/4/59-60); memories of the Turf Club in Cairo (SAD.533/4/61); description of a trek in the
Red Sea Hills with Sandars in 1931 including a visit to the gold mine at Gebeit (SAD.533/4/66-67). Also includes:
SAD.533/4/55
1912 Jan 17
Sketch by Baily of the battlefield of Abu Klea (1885)
SAD.533/5/1-44
1952 Feb 14 - Apr 24
Correspondence re King Faruq's claim to the title ‘King of the Sudan’, including Baily to Atlee re Eden's pronouncement of Nov 1951, with reply (SAD.533/5/7, 11); Baily to R.C. Mayall
with a list of people concerned with the issue (SAD.533/5/15); C.G. Davies, Sudan Agency in London to Baily re the need to remain quiescent and the lack of support from Sudanese for King Faruq's claims (SAD.533/5/32); A.E. Baldwin to Baily with
copies of a letter from Anthony Nutting of 28 Feb 1952 about the need to take into account the wishes of the Sudanese (SAD.533/5/33)
3. Historical Material
SAD.533/6/3-6
1898 Sep 4
Copy letter from Lieut. R.N. Smyth of 21st Lancers to his sister Alice re the charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman Aug 29 - Sep 21
SAD.533/6/1-2
Baily's notes on SAD.533/6/3-6 above
4. Photographic Material
SAD.533/3/59
1966 May 14
Photograph of Miralai `Ali Fu`ad Wahdi, an Egyptian
Mamur of Turkish origin who served under Baily in Kassala, Singa and Khartoum
5. Newspaper Cuttings
SAD.533/3/12
1932 Oct 29
Cutting from the
Sudan Daily Herald re Baily's retirement
SAD.533/5/20
1952 Feb 27
Cutting from the
Manchester Guardian, a letter from Baily re King Faruq's claim to the title ‘King of the Sudan'
SAD.533/5/23-25; SAD.533/5/40-42, 44
1952 Feb - Apr
Cuttings from
The Times and
The Manchester Guardian on Anglo-Egyptian talks on the future of the Sudan, held in London and Cairo
SAD.533/4/70
1964 Oct 15
Cutting from
The Times, “Preserving records of Empire” re Oxford and Durham's archives
SAD.533/4/69
1972 Aug 29
Cutting from
The Times, a letter from Anthony Sylvester re aid for the Sudan
