Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Simpson, Stanhope Rowton
Dates of creation: 1899-1984
Extent: 3.5 boxes
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: Simpson, Stanhope Rowton
Language:
English
(1903 - 1999)
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| 1926 | Assistant District Commissioner, Blue Nile Province |
| 1927-1928 | Assistant District Commissioner, Central District, Kordofan |
| 1929-1932 | Assistant District Commissioner, Western District, Bahr al-Ghazal |
| 1932-1933 | Assistant District Commssioner, Central / Southern District, Berber Province |
| 1934-1936 | Assistant District Commissioner / District Commissioner, Opari - Kajo Kaji District, Mongalla / Equatoria |
| 1936-1943 | District Commissioner, Khartoum North |
| 1943-1945 | Deputy Assistant Legal Secretary, Wad Medani and from 1944 Khartoum Legal Department |
| 1945-1953 | Commissioner of Lands and Registrar General |
1. Official papers
This section of Simpson's papers reflects his work in the Legal Department and Land Registry rather than his early career as A.D.C. and D.C. in various provinces
2. Memoirs
3. Articles, Speeches (drafts)
4. Historical Material
This section contains files relating to land settlement and custom, 1903-1940
(a) 1903-1936, Kordofan
(b) 1904-1935, Berber / Northern Province
(c) 1906, Red Sea Province
(d) 1909-1935, Sennar / Blue Nile Province
(e) 1911-1929, Kassala Province
(f) 1911, Bahr al-Ghazal Province
(g) 1916-1939, Sudan, general
(h) 1913-1931, Outside the Sudan
5. Photographic Material
(a) Mounted Photographs
(b) Loose Photographs
6. Plans
7. Printed Material
(a) In Archive
(b) In Library
Presented by Simpson, 1969-1997 and by Mrs L. Poulter, 1999
Catalogue
1. Official Papers
SAD.627/12/1-44
1899-1932
Copies of Ordinances, proclamations, etc. on land law in the Sudan. Compiled at S.R. Simpson's request when he took up his post in 1945.
SAD.627/13/16-27
[ca. 1947]
Draft copy of the Town Replanning and Improvement bill
SAD.720/2/22-33
1953 Feb 15
Copy of the Town Planning Bill together with the town planning regulations, model local orders and the Town Planning Ordinance 1950 (Amendment no. 1 ordinance)
(b) Files relating to the Legal Department and Land Registry SAD.627/14/1-41
1944 Dec 5 - 1952 Mar 23
Official correspondence including J.W. Hewison and S.R. Simpson re the requisition of private land for pumping schemes in Northern Province (SAD.627/14/3-4); S.R. Simpson and G.C. Scott re the construction of residential accommodation at Gordon
Memorial College (SAD.627/14/5-9); S.R. Simpson to Governor, Khartoum Province urging the development of land around Khartoum (SAD.627/13/ 11-13); S.R. Simpson to G.E.R. Sandars re the planting of trees in market areas (SAD.627/14/18-19); S.R.
Simpson re the demand for a football ground at Omdurman (SAD.627/14/21); S.R. Simpson and J.L. Willoughby re access to Khartoum Central Railway Station (SAD.627/14/32-33); and S.R. Simpson re the registration of riverain land (SAD.627/14/36-38)
Digitised material for Official correspondence, 1944-1952 - SAD.627/14/1-41 SAD.627/15/1-22
1943 - 1954
Extracts from legal cases
SAD.627/15/23-28
1944 Oct 11
Notes on Damer Land Registry by Najib `Abd Allah, Assistant Registrar of Lands, Northern Province
SAD.627/15/29-64
1946 Jul 9 - 1947 Dec
Note on riverain land and registration by S.R. Simpson with explanatory note and comments by T.P. Creed and J. Madden
SAD.627/16/1-4
1946 Nov 25
Minutes of Khartoum town planning sub- committee meeting to discuss applications for building plots by the P.W.D.
SAD.627/16/5-15
1946 Nov 28
Note by S.R. Simpson on lands policy, with related correspondence
SAD.627/16/16
[ca. 1946]
Instructions on completion of application for a saqiyah
SAD.627/16/17
[ca. 1946]
Note on road widths and building lines
SAD.627/16/27-34
1947 Jan 25-27
Minutes of a meeting at the Land Registry, Khartoum of Province Assistant Registrars of Lands, with related note by T.P. Creed
SAD.627/16/35-64
1947 Nov 11 - 1952 Dec 14
Commissioner of Land's circular letters to Province Governors covering the New Town Lands Scheme, 1947, estate and development plans, principles of compensation in town planning, town premium reserve fund, the Town Replanning Ordinance 1950 and
essential works charges
SAD.627/16/65-71
[ca. 1947]
Memorandum on the aims and scope of the proposed Town Lands Scheme
SAD.719/6/1-52
Copy of the scheme, with annexes
SAD.719/6/53-124,169-192
Amendments
SAD.719/6/125-160
Schedule of towns and villages to which the Town Lands Scheme was applied with special appendices for individual towns
SAD.719/6/161-168
Circular letters concerning allotment of land to councils
SAD.719/7/1-2
1947 Jan 22
Tabular comparison between procedure in H.M. Land Registry and the Sudan Land Registry
SAD.719/7/3-7
1947 Jan
Minutes of a meeting of Land Registrars at Khartoum
SAD.719/7/8
1947 Mar 17
Note on village harams
SAD.719/7/9-17
[ca. 1948]
Note for guidance of Settlement Officer (Sortot, Timinar, Labab and Dirar Islands), by R.C. Stanley Baker, High Court Judge, Ed Damer
SAD.719/7/18-31
1949 Nov 29
Note on the Gezira Scheme, prepared by S.R. Simpson for the Select Committee to inquire into the future ownership of land in the N.W. extension of the Gezira Scheme, with related correspondence. (See also under 6. Printed Material for committee
report)
SAD.719/7/32-35
1950 Jan 6
Note on the need for a permanent Resettlement and Settlement party, with covering letter
SAD.719/8/3-9
1946 Jan 20
Kassala town
SAD.719/8/10-14
1947 Dec 22
Port Sudan, by S.R. Simpson
SAD.719/8/15-22
1948 Nov 2
Sinkat, by S.R. Simpson
SAD.719/8/23-25
1948 Nov 22
Gebeit, by S.R. Simpson
SAD.719/8/26-29
1948 Mar 29
Dakhla (Atbara), by S.R. Simpson
SAD.719/8/30-46
1947 May 30 - 1949 Apr 24
El Obeid, by S.R. Simpson
SAD.719/8/47-54
1948 May 9
Nyala
SAD.719/8/60-61
1949 Jun 1
Kebkabia
SAD.719/8/62-70
Wad Medani, by D.F. Hawley (D.A.L.S.)
SAD.719/8/71-74
1949 Sep 17
Gedaref, by D.F. Hawley (Acting Commissioner of Lands)
SAD.719/8/75-86
Dueim, by D.F. Hawley
SAD.719/8/94-107
1950 Mar 7
Shendi, by D.F. Hawley
SAD.719/9/1-10
Non Government schools
SAD.719/9/11-24
Storing and selling petroleum
SAD.719/9/37-55
Religious purposes
SAD.719/10/1-5
1950 Feb 13
Memorandum by D.F. Hawley on disputes concerning unregistered land
SAD.719/10/6-10
1950 Mar 6
Minutes of a Legal Department ad hoc meeting to discuss Gedaref rainlands development
SAD.719/10/11-32
1950 Mar 8
Central Town Planning Board circulars, [S.R. Simpson, Chairman], including information on the objectives and procedures of the Board, lay out of shops, native lodging areas and residential areas
SAD.719/10/33-36
1950 Apr 28
Copy of the Equatoria Province local government orders relating to Zande District
SAD.720/2/1-2
1950 Oct
Note by S.R. Simpson on the future of the Land Registry and the Lands section of the Legal Department
SAD.720/2/3-12
1950
Note on the aims and provisions of the Town Replanning Ordinance, 1950
SAD.720/2/13-15
[ca. 1950]
Memorandum on principles of compensation involved in town replanning
SAD.720/2/16-17
1951 Jul 28
Note on the constitution of Forest Reserves, by J.D. [Burridge]
SAD.720/2/18-19
1952 Oct 8
Note by S.R. Simpson on the acquisition of land for Guneid Pump Scheme
SAD.720/2/20-21
1953 Feb 4
Note by S.R. Simpson on the Guneid Scheme
SAD.720/2/34
1953 Feb 22
Memorandum by S.R. Simpson on the Kababish, Hawawir award
SAD.720/2/35-36
[ca. 1953]
Memorandum on the distribution of hawashas in the Gezira Scheme
2. Memoirs
SAD.720/4
[1976?]
“Sudan service”, the memoirs of S.R. Simpson, covering his life in the Sudan Political Service in Blue Nile Province, Kordofan, Bahr al-Ghazal, Berber, Mongalla/Equatoria, Khartoum North and the Legal Department.
Also includes a postscript on his life from 1953-1976
224 pp mimeographed text, 1 map, 79 photographs
Digitised material for Sudan service (memoirs of S.R. Simpson) - SAD.720/4
See also R.O. Collins collection, SAD.941/7/1-11
3. Articles, Speeches (drafts)
SAD.720/5/1-3
1949 Feb 25
Copy article on
“Land ownership abroad” from Country Life
SAD.720/5/4
[n.d.]
Notes for a talk by S.R. Simpson on the work of District Commissioners
4. Historical Material
SAD.542/2,542/20
1910 - 1920
Nahud District:
SAD.542/3,542/19
1908 - 1936
Bara District:
SAD.542/4/1-17
1908 - 1910
Um Ruaba District:
SAD.542/5/1-41
1913 - 1914
Gum gardens:
(b) 1904-1935, Berber / Northern Province (c) 1906, Red Sea Province (d) 1909-1935, Sennar / Blue Nile Province SAD.542/9/1-45; SAD.542/13/1-47
SAD.542/11/1-14; SAD.542/14/1-19
(e) 1911-1929, Kassala Province SAD.542/20/15-16
[ca. 1913]
Draft order for applying the Deeds Registration Ordinances 1907 and 1908 to Gedaref, with covering letter from the Registrar, Khartoum Province lands
(f) 1911, Bahr al-Ghazal Province (g) 1916-1939, Sudan, general SAD.627/13/1-8
1922 Mar 2
Rules for the sale, lease and other disposal of Government lands and the acquisition of land by Government
SAD.627/13/9-12
1922
Rules regulating the purchase or lease of Government land and for Mineral Prospecting Licenses
SAD.627/13/13
1925 Mar 23
Note on the duties of the Registrar of Companies
SAD.627/13/14-15
1925 Dec 30
Order of the Registrar General of Lands concerning the exclusion of Um Arda Island, Khartoum Province and the Seluka lands, White Nile Province from the terms of the Land Settlement and Registration Ordinance, 1925
SAD.542/23/1-4
[1930]
Note on individual rights in tribal lands, by B.H. Bell, Acting Legal Secretary
SAD.542/23/5
1930 Nov 29
Note by I.M. Bruce Gardyne on points raised in note above (SAD.542/23/1-4)
SAD.542/23/6-10
1932 Jan 10
Note on prescription, with special reference to acquisitive prescription against Government
SAD.542/23/16
1933 Feb 1
Memorandum on the collection of rent for Government agricultural lands, by J.A. Reid, Governor, White Nile Province
SAD.542/24/1-7
1938 - 1939
List of authorities and files consulted by H.A. Evans in compiling his note on land tenure in the Sudan (not present) with an additional note by M.E.C. Pumphrey, and relevant extracts from the
Sudan Monthly Record and Kordofan Monthly diary for Dec 1938
(h) 1913-1931, Outside the Sudan SAD.542/25/1-4
[1913 Feb 11?]
Provisional Turkish law relating to the inheritance of immovable property, 3rd Rabi el Awal 1331. No. 89 Dustur, vol. V. (2 copies)
SAD.542/25/5-6
1921 Jun 30
Report of land acquisition at Bagdad for 1920
SAD.542/23/18-22
1931 Aug 4 - 10
Memorandum and correspondence re the report of the committee on native land tenure in the North Kavirondo Reserve (report not present)
5. Photographic Material
SAD.998/11/1-12; SAD.328/1/1
1927
Photographs of El Obeid (on mounted sheets):
SAD.998/11/1
1927
Shops on the south side of the Mosque Square, El Obeid
SAD.998/11/2
1927
Butchers' and grocers' sheds, El Obeid
SAD.998/11/3
1927
Crowd of dignitaries at unspecified event, El Obeid
SAD.998/11/4
1927
Procession of Sudanese policemen, El Obeid, led by police band
SAD.998/11/5-6
1927
Merchants at El Obeid
suq
SAD.998/11/7
1927
Sudanese band, El Obeid
SAD.998/11/8
1927
Sudanese trumpet player, El Obeid
SAD.998/11/9
1927
Sudanese women collecting [dhurah?], El Obeid
SAD.998/11/10
1927
Crowd of Sudanese men wearing jallabiyahs and turbans performing a dance, El Obeid
SAD.998/11/11
1927
The gallows at the prison, El Obeid, with prisoner drying his washing on the wooden structure
SAD.998/11/12
1927
The
Ma'mur of the prison, El Obeid
SAD.328/1/1
1927
Inspection of El Obeid police
SAD.328/1/2-23
1931
Photographs of a trek to Kafia Kingi (on mounted sheets):
SAD.328/1/2
1931
Lorry crossing Irish bridge on the Raga road in the dry season. On the left is the small ferry boat used during the rains.
SAD.328/1/3
1931
Lorry stuck on the Raga road
SAD.328/1/4-5
1931
Lorry being pushed by Sudanese porters on the Raga road
SAD.328/1/6,8
1931
Sudanese inhabitants, Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.328/1/7
1931
Trek party in a village in the Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.328/1/9
1931
British official, possibly S.R. Simpson?
SAD.328/1/10
1931
Sudanese woman and children filling water pots
SAD.328/1/11
1931
Sudanese women carrying large basket on her head, Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.328/1/12,14
1931
River scene, Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.328/1/13
1931
Sudanese men sawing planks to make a ferry boat, Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.328/1/15,18
1931
Boys in
ta'rifa race, Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.328/1/16
1931
Lorry on Irish bridge, Bahr al-Ghazal, with wire for ferry boat in the foreground
SAD.328/1/17
1931
British official with Sudanese workers sawing planks to make a ferry boat, Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.328/1/19
1931
Truck and supplies, Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.328/1/20
1931
Trek lorry with Sudanese porters in trek-box
SAD.328/1/21
1931
Trek lorry on the road to Kafia Kingi
SAD.328/1/22
1931
Crashed trek lorry on the road to Kafia Kingi
SAD.328/1/23
1931
Local courthouse, Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.328/1/24-26
1933
Photographs taken at Ed Damer (on mounted sheets):
SAD.328/1/
1933
Sailing
dhahabiyah moored near Ed Damer
SAD.328/1/25
1933
Start of a camel race, Ed Damer
SAD.328/1/26
1933
Camel race crossing the railway line between Atbara and Ed Damer
SAD.328/1/27-39
1934
Photographs taken in Yei River district, Mongalla (on mounted sheets):
SAD.328/1/27
1934
House of C.H.L. Skeet, District Commissioner, Yei
SAD.328/1/28
1934
J.A. Gillan, Civil Secretary and L.F. Nalder, Governor Mongalla, with their wives on a visit to Yei
SAD.328/1/29
1934
Sudanese men planting coffee, Yei district
SAD.328/1/30
1934
Sudanese farmers ploughing the land with oxen-drawn plough, Yei district
SAD.328/1/33
1934
C.H.L. Skeet, District Commissioner, Yei, with pet dogs
SAD.328/1/34-35
1934
Construction of the road from Kajo Kaji to Yei
SAD.328/1/36
1934
Public Works Department bridge over Khor Kijo
SAD.328/1/38
1934
Garden of British official [possibly C.H.L. Skeet]
SAD.328/1/39
1934
Landscape view, Yei district
SAD.328/1/40
1931
Temple of Karnak with colonnade of rams
SAD.328/1/41
1946
Group of four Sudan Land Registry officials on a visit to a sewage farm in Leicester with Simpson
SAD.328/1/42
1993 May 8
Simpson in old age
6. Plans
7. Printed Material
SAD.542/21/1-35
1899 - 1919
Sudan Government circular memoranda:
SAD.542/21/1-3
1899
Land registration, nos 5 and 8
SAD.542/21/4-7
1899
Religious Judges' instructions, no. 9
Language:
Arabic
SAD.542/21/8
1901
Sale of government land; employment of convict labour, nos 18 and 19
SAD.542/21/9-11
1901
Employment of Sudanese ex soldiers, nos 21 23
SAD.542/21/12-14
1901
Woods and forests, nos 24-26
SAD.542/21/15
1901
Import of trained agricultural labour, no. 27
SAD.542/21/16-17
1901
Establishment of the Scientific and Technical Department of the Imperial Institute, no. 28
SAD.542/21/18-19
1903
Annual leave of British officers and civil officials, nos 31-32
SAD.542/21/20
1903
Sale of military clothing, no. 33
SAD.542/21/21
1904
Servants' contracts, no. 34
SAD.542/21/22
1905
Purchase of machinery, no. 35
SAD.542/21/23
1905
Rules for cattle plague, no. 36
SAD.542/21/24
1905
Requisitions for stores from Cairo, no. 37
SAD.542/21/25
1905
New police scheme, no. 38
SAD.542/21/26
1905
“El Sudan Times”, no. 39
SAD.542/21/27
1905
Regulations re houses and quarters, the property of the Sudan Government, no. 40
SAD.542/21/28-29
1905
Cancellation of Sudan Government orders, nos 41-42
SAD.542/21/31
1906
Points for guidance in distinguishing tusks of male and female elephants, no. 43
SAD.542/21/32
1907
The Mohammedan law courts. Relations to the Legal Department and the Provincial Government, no. 44
SAD.542/21/33
1907
“Epizootic lymphangitis”, no. 46
SAD.542/21/34
1908
Erkowit Hill Station arrangements, no. 46
SAD.542/21/35
1919
Regulations as to Sudanese servants, no. 33
SAD.720/6
1984
Simpson, S.R.,
Land law and registration, Book 1 (London, 1984)
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
El Kereiba village. A summary of information obtained during a survey by second year students in June/July 1962 of El Kereiba village, Wad Medani, Blue Nile Province (Khartoum, 1963)
Brausch, Georges, Crooke, Patrick & Shaw, John, Bashagra area settlements, 1963. A case study in village development in the Gezira scheme, (Khartoum, 1964)
Simpson, S.R., Town planning in the Northern Sudan and a note on street tree planting, ([Khartoum], 1943)
Simpson, S.R., Town planning and development during the Condominium: Two extracts from a memoir (ca. 1983)
The Sudan law journal and reports, 7 vols (7v) dupls Khartoum, 1956-61, 1963)
Sudan notes and records, 46 vols (Khartoum 1918, 1924, 1931-43, 1945-52, 1954-56, 1958-61)
Report of committee with reference to the sale of Government lands in the Sudan ([Khartoum], 1904)
Middleton, A.A., Housing for staff, S.I.D. Technical note no. 1/45 (Abu Ushur, 1945)
Weekly digest of proceedings, First Legislative Assembly, second session, no. 7 (Khartoum, 1950)
Report of the Select Committee on the future administration of the Gezira Scheme ([Khartoum], 1950)
Report of the Select Committee on the future ownership of land in the north west extension of the Gezira Scheme (1950)
