Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Titherington, Geoffrey Wrench
Dates of creation: 1919-1962
Extent: 0.5 box
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: Titherington, Geoffrey Wrench
Language:
English
(1893 - 1951)
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| 1919-1925 | Egyptian Army service |
| 1919 | Seconded to the Sudan Political Service |
| 1919-1928 | Bahr el Ghazal (2nd Inspector Wau, 1920; A.D.C. Gogrial, 1923; A.D.C. Wau, 1924-1928) |
| 1925 | Transferred to the Sudan Defence Force |
| 1928 | Permanent appointment to the Sudan Political Service |
| 1929 | A.D.C. Dilling, Kordofan |
| 1930-1931 | A.D.C. Kadugli, Kordofan |
| 1931 | A.D.C. Kodok, Upper Nile Province |
| 1932-1934 | D.C. Malakal, Upper Nile Province |
| 1934-1939 | D.C. Merowe, Northern Province |
| 1939-1942 | D.C. Wadi Halfa, Northern Province |
| 1942 | Retired |
1. Personal Papers
2. Photographic Material
Presented by Mrs W. H. Titherington, 1973 & Miss C. Sarsfield-Hall, 1984
Catalogue
1. Personal Papers
SAD.636/12/1-33
1920 Jan - 1936 Mar
Letters from G.W. Titherington and Winifred Titherington to Dorothy, his godmother [?], at Wincombe, sent from Bahr el Ghazal (Wau and Gogrial), Kordofan (El Obeid and Dilling), Upper Nile Province (Malakal), Northern Province (Merowe, Dongola
District), describing day-to-day life and duties as an Inspector, Assistant District Commissioner and District Commissioner, with specific references to hunting and fishing expeditions (SAD.636/12/1-12); slave raids (SAD.636/12/13-14); trekking
(SAD.636/12/17-20); preparations for going on leave (SAD.636/12/21-23); crop irrigation and cultivation (SAD.636/12/24-27); amalgamation of three provinces into Northern Province (SAD.636/12/29); travel arrangements for going on leave
(SAD.636/12/30); closing down of provinces and progress of “Native Administration” (SAD.636/12/31); concerns for military security round Atbara (SAD.636/12/32)
SAD.636/12/34-36
1950 Nov 8
Letter from G.W. Titherington at Penrith, to Dorothy, his godmother [?], about moving house
SAD.636/12/37
1962 Oct 27
Letter from R.O. Collins to Mrs W.H. Titherington, about her late husband's papers
2. Photographic Material
SAD.491/5/1-121
1919 - 1924
Album of black and white photographs covering G.W. Titherington's service in Wau, Bahr el Ghazal:
SAD.491/5/3
Governor's office,
mudiriyah, Wau
SAD.491/5/5
G.W. Titherington inspecting prisoners at Wau prison
SAD.491/5/8
Group of female former slaves, waiting for G.W. Titherington to open his mail
SAD.491/5/10
G.W. Titherington treating a woman with an ulcer on her neck
SAD.491/5/12
The first lion and lioness shot by G.W. Titherington
SAD.491/5/13
Lion, shot dead by G.W. Titherington
SAD.491/5/14
G.W. Titherington's cook, sitting on a dead rhinocerous
SAD.491/5/15
Jur men cutting up an eland
SAD.491/5/17
Fishing with nets in the River Jur
SAD.491/5/18
Thatched
tukl, rest house on the road to Meshra' es Req
SAD.491/5/19
Baggage mules grazing outside a thatched
tukl on the road to Meshra' es Req
SAD.491/5/20
View of River Busseri, near Wau
SAD.491/5/23-27
Groups of Dinka men and women
SAD.491/5/28
First elephant shot by G.W. Titherington, 1923
SAD.491/5/29
Dinka men displaying a pair of ivory tusks weighing 90lbs
SAD.491/5/31
Dead elephant, shot by G.W. Titherington
SAD.491/5/34
Dinka family making winter house using sticks, grass and mud
SAD.491/5/35
Thatched building, possibly a rest house
SAD.491/5/36
G.W. Titherington and a group of Dinka men
SAD.491/5/37
G.W. Titherington's temporary house built by Dinkas
SAD.491/5/38
Thatched
tukls, possibly a rest house, in front of a dulayb palm tree
SAD.491/5/40
Dinka people with some chiefs (clothed)
SAD.491/5/41
Jur woman giving G.W. Titherington's police escorts a drink
SAD.491/5/45
Dinka siblings collecting water from a well
SAD.491/5/46
G.W. Titherington's tent pitched at camp, next to
dulayb palm trees
SAD.491/5/47
Dinka man at the entrance to his thatched
tukl, with G.W. Titherington's district flag on the left
SAD.491/5/48
Dinka mother and baby, outside thatched
tukl
SAD.491/5/49
Dinka woman outside a thatched
tukl
SAD.491/5/50
Dinka men carrying meat from a hartebeeste shot by G.W. Titherington
SAD.491/5/51
Dinka women grinding corn
SAD.491/5/52
Dinka men on a river bank holding spears
SAD.491/5/53
Dinka policeman, holding the Wau district flag outside a hut
SAD.491/5/54
Group of young Azande women carrying baskets of grain on their heads
SAD.491/5/56
Dinka, herding cattle to winter grazing
SAD.491/5/58
Grave of Chief Mowein Anig, possibly Dinka
SAD.491/5/60
Men standing next to a pack bull
SAD.491/5/61
Trek party crossing the River Pongo on horseback
SAD.491/5/63
Lizard on a tree trunk, and a kite flying in the background
SAD.491/5/64
Porters crossing a wooden bridge
SAD.491/5/65
Marabou storks fishing on swamp land
SAD.491/5/72
Wood station on the Nile, possibly Bahr el Ghazal
SAD.491/5/73
Men putting wood fuel in a steamer at a wood station on the Nile, possibly Bahr el Ghazal
SAD.491/5/74
Grab dredger in the
sudd, possibly Wau district
SAD.491/5/76
G.W. Titherington's new house being thatched
SAD.491/5/77
Temporary house, under a fig tree, while G.W. Titherington's new house is constructed
SAD.491/5/78-79
Construction stages of G.W. Titherington's new house
SAD.491/5/80
Young females carrying baskets on their heads
SAD.491/5/81-82
Policemen's wives carrying baskets on their heads
SAD.491/5/83
Young porters carrying baggage and equipment on their heads
SAD.491/5/84
Dinka prisoner transporting rocks on a wheelbarrow
SAD.491/5/86
Group of women outside a
tukl
SAD.491/5/87
Man displaying snipe, possibly Golo and Wau
SAD.491/5/88
Mother and baby, possibly Golo
SAD.491/5/89
Man with two boys, one wearing headdress
SAD.491/5/90
Group of women and children, possibly Golo, Wau
SAD.491/5/91
Mother and boy; mother also carries cloth bundle on head
SAD.491/5/93
Men holding two basketware grain storage bins
SAD.491/5/94
Group of people awaiting a yaws inspection
SAD.491/5/98
Young women pounding corn
SAD.491/5/102
Tukl on stilts, possible grain store
SAD.491/5/104
Dinka family outside a hut built on stilts
SAD.491/5/106
Group of local people awaiting a yaws inspection
SAD.491/5/107
Young Dinka man wearing bead necklace with ash covering his body
SAD.491/5/108
Group of men removing tusks from a dead elephant
SAD.491/5/109
Mule loaded with elephant tusks
SAD.491/5/111-113
Group of Jur men performing a drama wearing tall hats
SAD.491/5/115-119
Groups of male Dinka pupils, in various poses, at a Roman Catholic mission near Gogrial
SAD.491/5/120-121
Portraits of male pupils at a Roman Catholic mission near Gogrial
SAD.845/8/1-36
[c.1933 - 1938]
Album of photographs of Northern Province, chiefly of archaeological sites, taken by G.W. Titherington Photographs SAD.845/8/1-8 are aerial shots taken by the R.A.F. in 1933:
SAD.845/8/1-5
Pyramids and temple ruins at Jabal Barkal
SAD.845/8/6-7
Old fort at Qasr wad Nimiri on the Nile south of Dongola
SAD.845/8/9-17
Pyramids and temple ruins at Jabal Barkal
SAD.845/8/18
Mosque and old fort at Khandaq
SAD.845/8/19
Desert well, lined with mud and with stone rim
SAD.845/8/22
Descending Jabal Barkal, possibly Professor Mason (U.S.A.) and Mrs Coryton
SAD.845/8/25-29
Temple of Kawa, near Dongola
SAD.845/8/30-33
Gardens and District Commissioner's house at Merowe
SAD.845/8/34-36
Ruins of a Roman fort opposite Merowe
3. 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
Titherington, G.W., “The Raik Dinka of Bahr el Ghazal Province”, repr. from Sudan Notes and Records, 10 (1927)
