Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Mynors, T.H.B.
Dates of creation: 1930-1982
Extent: 1 box
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections: Sudan Archive
Created by: material relating to service in the Sudan
Language:
English
(1907-2000)
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| 1930-1934 | A.D.C. Moru District, Mongalla Province |
| 1935 | A.D.C. Red Sea District, Kassala |
| 1935-1936 | Police Magistrate, Khartoum Province |
| 1936-1938 | Seconded to Legal Department: Police Magistrate, later District Judge 1st Grade, Khartoum |
| 1938-1944 | Gezira Province |
| 1939-1942 | A.D.C. Southern Gezira District/Fung District |
| From 1942 | D.C. H.Q. Blue Nile Province |
| From 1944 | D.C. Southern Gezira District |
| 1944-1950 | Civil Secretary's Office: seconded to Gordon Memorial College as Dean, School of Administration and Reader in Public Administration |
| 1950-1953 | Asst. Director, Local Government Branch, Civil Secretary's Office |
| 1953-1954 | Deputy Governor, Blue Nile Province |
| 1954-1955 | Governor, Blue Nile Province |
| 1955 | Retired from Sudan Political Service |
1. Official Papers
(a) Mongalla Province
(b) Civil Secretary's Office
2. Memoirs
3. Photographic Material
4. Miscellanea
5. Printed Material
Catalogue
1. Official Papers
SAD.777/3/1-40
1935
Notes on the Moru tribe by T.H.B.M., with covering letter to the Governor Mongalla, 14 Oct 1935. The notes are divided into the following chapters and appendices:
SAD.777/3/8-9
Tribal organisation
SAD.777/3/10-14
Family life (Birth, marriage, death)
SAD.777/3/15-16
Grave monuments
SAD.777/3/17-20
Music and dancing
SAD.777/3/21-29
Religion, magic, superstition
SAD.777/3/30-32
Hunting and village life
SAD.777/3/33-34
Appendix: table of relationship names
SAD.777/3/36-37
Meridi census 1933
SAD.777/3/38
Poll tax figures
SAD.777/3/40
Drawings of arrowhead types
SAD.777/4/1-80
1935
Notes on Moru grammar by T.H.B.M., with related correspondence. The notes are divided into the following chapters:
SAD.777/4/2-3
Introductory note
SAD.777/4/4
List of contents
SAD.777/4/5-7
Orthography
SAD.777/4/14-19
Adjectives
SAD.777/4/57-63
Prepositions and pospositions
SAD.777/4/65-67
Interjections, oaths, etc.
SAD.777/4/68-71
Formation of simple sentences
SAD.777/4/72-75
Formation of complex sentences
SAD.777/4/76
Appendix 1 - table of tenses
SAD.777/4/77-79
Appendix 2 - notes on parallel vocabularies
SAD.777/4/80
Covering letter from T.H.B.M. to the Governor, Juba, 7 Mar 1935
SAD.777/5/1-65
1934 - 1936
Moru vocabulary, compiled by T.H.B.M. with assistance from many sources and amended by Mrs. K.G. Fraser:
SAD.777/5/3-55
Vocabulary, a-z
SAD.777/5/56-65
Special vocabularies
SAD.777/6/1-58
1931 - 1933
Moru songs and stories, with translations, compiled by T.H.B.M.
SAD.777/6/59-66
1935 May 2 - 1982 Sep 14
Correspondence relating to the three items above
(b) Local Government Branch, Civil Secretary's Office SAD.777/7/1-13
1952
Civil Secretary's Office, Local Government Branch annual report for the year 1 Jul 1951 - 30 Jun 1952, by T.H.B.M., Acting Director
2. Memoirs
SAD.777/8/1-20
1982 Mar
Memoirs of T.H.B.M.'s service in the Sudan including descriptions of family background (777/8/1-2); choice of career (777/8/2); first impressions of the Amadi/Meridi District of Equatoria (777/8/3); description of district (777/8/4); role of
missions (777/8/4); the work of an A.D.C. (777/8/4-5); transfers as A.D.C. Port Sudan and later Police Magistrate with the Legal Department (777/8/5-6); involvement with football (777/8/6); transfer to Blue Nile Province (777/8/6); social life of
the Gezira (777/8/6); work in the Fung (777/8/7); province officials (777/8/7-8); appointment as Dean of Administration School, Khartoum (777/8/8); Secretary of the Sudan Football Association (777/8/8); service as Assistant Director, Local
Government Branch (777/8/9); discussions with officials on the introduction of elective councils to replace native administration (777/8/9); assessment of native courts (777/8/9-10); Deputy Governor and Governor, Blue Nile Province (777/8/10);
criticism of the role of Governor (777/8/10); wartime experiences (777/8/11); taxation and economic development, particularly in the south (777/8/11-12); the work of the missions and the separate development of the south (777/8/13); post war
developments (777/8/13-14); education (777/8/14); Sudanisation and the move towards independence (777/8/14-17); retirement and subsequent career (777/8/17); assessment of British rule in the Sudan (777/8/17-20)
3. Photographic Material
SAD.775/11/1-183
1930 - 1933
Photograph album covering T.H.B.M.'s journey to the Sudan and service in Mongalla Province, including:
SAD.775/11/3
Messina, 7 am
SAD.775/11/4
Straits of Messina; sunrise over Calabria
SAD.775/11/5-8
On board the M.V. Cheshire
SAD.775/11/7
R. Salmon, W. Luce, D. Lomax, J. Rowley, I. Croggan, T.H.B.M., E. Aglen, D. Evans and J. Donald on the deck of the Cheshire
SAD.775/11/8
Thea Cary and D. Evans
SAD.775/11/9
Waterfront at Port Said, Sep 1930
SAD.775/11/10
‘Hucksters' at Port Said
SAD.775/11/11,13
Suez Canal
SAD.775/11/12
Train of Egyptian State Railways
SAD.775/11/14,17
Red Sea Hills
SAD.775/11/15
Desert halt
SAD.775/11/16
4.6.2 Sudan Government Railways engine (1 metre gauge)
SAD.775/11/18
Station between Port Sudan and Atbara
SAD.775/11/19
Jammed points on the railway line
SAD.775/11/20-21
Omdurman bridge (White Nile)
SAD.775/11/22
Dredgers near Aba Island
SAD.775/11/24
Landing stage at Kosti
SAD.775/11/25
Nile steamer
SAD.775/11/26
Landing stage at Kaka
SAD.775/11/27
Shilluk villages, from the river
SAD.775/11/28-29
Steamer moored at edge of river
SAD.775/11/30
Barge moored at Malakal
SAD.775/11/31
Barge at wood station
SAD.775/11/32
Ryer (sudd region)
SAD.775/11/33,36
Wood station
SAD.775/11/38
A.D.C.'s house, Amadi
SAD.775/11/39-40
Building after fire, Amadi Mar 1931
SAD.775/11/41
D.C.'s house, Amadi
SAD.775/11/42
District offices, Amadi
SAD.775/11/44
Amadi from the north-west showing the houses of native clerks, guard room and prison, store, office and resthouse
SAD.775/11/45
Department of Capt. J.E. and Mrs. Voysey from Amadi, Nov 1930. Includes Sgt Quadi Jiga, J. Marsden, S.M. Lowoh Marwa and Kiboko (T.H.B.M.'s cook)
SAD.775/11/46
Market house and chiefs' court, Terakeka
SAD.775/11/47
Guard room and prison, office, store and police lines, Terakeka
SAD.775/11/48
D.C.'s house, Meridi
SAD.775/11/49
Suq, Meridi
SAD.775/11/50
The fort, Meridi
SAD.775/11/51
Locusts on D.C.'s garden, Meridi
SAD.775/11/52
M.I.'s house, Li-Rangu
SAD.775/11/53
Amadi bridge, River Yei, 1930
SAD.775/11/54
Dr. Cruickshank's Austin 16 being towed across the river, Dec 1930
SAD.775/11/55
Repairs to Yei bridge 1930/1931; Amadi station in background
SAD.775/11/56
River at high tide
SAD.775/11/57
Tax collecting; chief Okwa in foreground
SAD.775/11/58
Tax collection at Chief Malingindu
SAD.775/11/59-60
Zande circumcision dance near Mt Bangenze, 1931
SAD.775/11/61-64
Border court, Mt. Bangenze, 1931
SAD.775/11/61
Chief Ngilima hearing a local case
SAD.775/11/62
Rest at midday
SAD.775/11/65
Mt Bangenze, from border court
SAD.775/11/66
View west from summit of Mt. Bangenze
SAD.775/11/67-68
Villagers
SAD.775/11/69
Wooden grave monument
SAD.775/11/70-73
Mandari 
dance, Tali, Apr 1931
SAD.775/11/74-77
Aliab (Dinka) dance
SAD.775/11/74
S/Sgt Bradburn on right of photo
SAD.775/11/79
On Lui-Lanya road
SAD.775/11/81
Moru grave, Meridi-Amadi road
SAD.775/11/83
River Tapari at Kediba (Tali road), Jan 1931
SAD.775/11/84
R. Tapari at Tali (Tindalo road)
SAD.775/11/85
Tindalo; towing broken down lorry to Terakeka
SAD.775/11/86
Olo river bridge (Meridi District), rebuilt 1930 - 1931
SAD.775/11/87
Chief Jambo Lowoh (Moru no.7)
SAD.775/11/88
Grave of Chief Warangwa
SAD.775/11/89
Moru village (Amadi-Lui road)
SAD.775/11/90
Rest house of Chief Anana
SAD.775/11/91-94
Rebuilding bridge on the R. Tapari 1930-31
SAD.775/11/95-97
Rebuilding Yei River bridge, Amadi, 1930-31 (includes Capt. G.P. Cann and S.M. Lowoh Marwa)
SAD.775/11/98-100
Unidentified village
SAD.775/11/100
Rethatching large hut, possibly luak
SAD.775/11/102
River Yei at Kariba
SAD.775/11/103-104
Chief Agongwa's village
SAD.775/11/106
Kariba bridge
SAD.775/11/107
Broken-down car on the road near Lanya
SAD.775/11/107-111
King's Day, Amadi, 1931
SAD.775/11/108
Police wives taking part in waterpot race
SAD.775/11/109
Moru chiefs in archery competition. L. to R. Jambo, Indarago, Ngerli, Agongwa, Anana, Wajo, Walla, Ruba
SAD.775/11/112
Moru sub-chiefs in archery competition
SAD.775/11/113
Chief Indarago with bow and arrow
SAD.775/11/114
Lui, Christmas 1930
SAD.775/11/115-118
Mount Ambeh; frontier meeting with the adminstrator of Dungu, 1933
SAD.775/11/120
Moru Ogi women (R. Olo)
SAD.775/11/121-123
Moru men: Kederu
SAD.775/11/124,126
Women selling grain at Amadi
SAD.775/11/125
Chief Ruba's family
SAD.775/11/127
Aganas, veteran of many wars
SAD.775/11/128-129
Buying grain at Chief Ngerli (Moru Onderi)
SAD.775/11/130
Chief Jambo Lowo and his house
SAD.775/11/131
Moru men at Misa
SAD.775/11/132
Women pounding grain
SAD.775/11/133
Labi, the chief rainmaker
SAD.775/11/134
Moru man at Misa
SAD.775/11/135
Man spinning cotton
SAD.775/11/136
Jamberi with pipe (Moru Misa)
SAD.775/11/138
Bush school
SAD.775/11/139
Moru village
SAD.775/11/140
Lining up for poll tax
SAD.775/11/141
Goat pen at Lanyi (Moru Misa)
SAD.775/11/142-143
Moru Onderi graves
SAD.775/11/144
Chief Ngerli
SAD.775/11/145
Funeral dance of rainmaker; grave in foreground
SAD.775/11/146-147
Moru Kederu graves
SAD.775/11/148-150
Moru Misa graves
SAD.775/11/151-154
Ascent of J. Odo (near Lanyi)
SAD.775/11/155-156
Views from J. Odo
SAD.775/11/157-158
On the Yei-Juba road
SAD.775/11/159-162
Death of a hippopotamus
SAD.775/11/163-164
Noel Brown with red duiker
SAD.775/11/167-170
Amadi station
SAD.775/11/169
D.C.'s house, Amadi
SAD.775/11/170
Police lines, Amadi
SAD.775/11/171
Car loaded ready for trek
SAD.775/11/172
Tent erected on trek
SAD.775/11/173
Erecting a sawmill
SAD.775/11/174
Bridge building
SAD.775/11/175
Interior of Meridi church
SAD.775/11/176
British group: Sullivan, Brown, Archdeacon Shaw, Fraser, H.M. Woodman, Bishop Kitchin, T.H.B.M., F. Nalder (Governor), T.G. Wyld, Myroyami, Alison Wyld, Mrs. Kitchin, Mrs. Laverick, Mrs. Wyld, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Fraser and Sharland (CMS)
SAD.775/11/177
M.I.'s house, Li Rangu
SAD.775/11/178
Meridi resthouse
SAD.775/11/179-180
Nyangbar men, women and children
SAD.775/11/181
Fishing in water hole
SAD.775/11/182
Group of men and cattle
SAD.778/1/1-123
1933 - 1934
Photograph album covering T.H.B.'s service in Mongalla Province including:
SAD.778/1/1-2
Making repairs to Yei River bridge
SAD.778/1/3
View from the bridge
SAD.778/1/4
D.C. Ayangwa Kopalla and Azuba Balli
SAD.778/1/5-8
Bush schools of Lui C.M.S. mission
SAD.778/1/9
S/Maj. Lowo Marwa and son (20 years service)
SAD.778/1/10-12
Moru men and women
SAD.778/1/13
Emeti, chief rainmaker
SAD.778/1/15
Baka children
SAD.778/1/16
Hippo in Yei River
SAD.778/1/18
Rapids on Yei River
SAD.778/1/19
Elephant shot by L/Com Barclay, R.N.
SAD.778/1/20
Chief Mdarago Lorela and brothers
SAD.778/1/21-23
Party at Morogo school
SAD.778/1/24-25
New Yei River bridge, 1935-36
SAD.778/1/26
View south from hill above Nimule
SAD.778/1/27
Madi, near Opari
SAD.778/1/28
Simsim stack
SAD.778/1/29-30
Madi village
SAD.778/1/31-33
Grave on River Naam-Avokaia
SAD.778/1/35
Moru Onderi grave (Ogi?)
SAD.778/1/36
Moru Onderi village
SAD.778/1/37
Grave south of Langi (Misa? Kederu?)
SAD.778/1/38-41
Moru Kodo graves
SAD.778/1/42
Moru Kodo shrine
SAD.778/1/44-45
Namusa graves (Chief Dokolo Ommu?)
SAD.778/1/46-48
Namusa men and women
SAD.778/1/49-51
Wall drawings in Shambe resthouse
SAD.778/1/52
Bor elephant herd (R.A.F. photo)
SAD.778/1/53
Mondu man, Meridi
SAD.778/1/54
Chief Okupoi (Zande)
SAD.778/1/55
Chief Senumbia (Baka)
SAD.778/1/56
Chief Lanze (Baka)
SAD.
778/1/57 Chief Said (Mondu)
SAD.778/1/58
Chief Senango (Mondu)
SAD.778/1/60
Meridi hospital
SAD.778/1/61
Resthouse, Chief Senango
SAD.778/1/63
Mondu hunting shrine
SAD.778/1/64-67
Li Rangu hospital
SAD.778/1/68
Meridi resthouse
SAD.778/1/70-71
M.I.'s house, Li Rangu
SAD.778/1/72-73
Clearing Li Rangu landing ground; T.H.B.M. and Mrs. Gun Woodman (wife of Dr. Hugh Woodman)
SAD.778/1/74
Hugh and Mrs. Gun Woodman on the steps of the M.I.'s house, Li Rangu, 1934
SAD.778/1/75-76,79
M.I.'s house, Li Rangu
SAD.778/1/77
Meridi girl guides
SAD.778/1/78
"Old Dorka" (leper)
SAD.778/1/80
Tom Morris, Hugh Woodman, Grace and Noel (L.N.F.) Brown at Li Rangu, 1933
SAD.778/1/81
Loading up truck
SAD.778/1/84
The staff - Kiboko, Luba, Hakimu and Matindi
SAD.778/1/85
Interior of tent, 1933
SAD.778/1/86-88
Bari (
Mandari ) scenes by the river near Terakeka
SAD.778/1/89
Bari men looking at their first motor car
SAD.778/1/92
Early morning view of the Nile at Terakeka
SAD.778/1/93-96
In
Mandari country between Tali and Yirrol
SAD.778/1/97-99
Bridge building
SAD.778/1/100-103
Buying grain from Nyambara
SAD.778/1/104-109
Nyambara women and children
SAD.778/1/110
Framework of large hut at Fagelu
SAD.778/1/111
Raga council 1950 sign
SAD.770/1/112
Car on ferry
SAD.778/1/113-121
Unidentified views
SAD.778/1/122-123
Aerial views
SAD.778/2/1
[c.1950]
Khartoum from the tower of the Cathedral
SAD.778/2/2-6
[c.1950]
Photographs of Wad Medani:
SAD.778/2/2-3
High Nile and low Nile at Wad Medani
SAD.778/2/4
Province headquarters, from the river
SAD.778/2/5-6
Interior and exterior views of St. Paul's church
SAD.778/3/1-11
[c.1950's]
Photographs taken by the P.R.O., Khartoum:
SAD.778/3/1
C.M.S. Girls' School, Yei; Miss Doris Greening teacher
SAD.778/3/2
C.M.S. Technical School, Lainya, Equatoria
SAD.778/3/4-5
Cotton crops
SAD.778/3/6
Loading cotton for transport
SAD.778/3/7
Man standing in dura crop
SAD.778/3/8-9
Regulator on the Gezira main canal
SAD.778/3/10
Gezira main canal
SAD.778/3/11
Irrigation canal at Lubia
4. Miscellanea
SAD.777/9/1-4
1952 Dec 16
Programme for a football match between the Swedish team A.I.K. and the Gezira Selected XI at Omdurman stadium
5. Printed Material
SAD.777/9/13-14
Shinnie, P.L.:
“The christian period in the Sudan” from The Sudan Diocesan Review
SAD.777/9/5-12
Evans-Pritchard, E.E.:
“Megalithic grave-monuments in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and other parts of East Africa”, from Antiquity, Jun 1935, with annotations by T.H.B.M.
(b) In Library
Durham University Library
Printed material deposited with collection; now integrated into library and catalogued on OPAC.
Balfour Paul, H.G.: “Supplement to early cultures on the Northern Blue Nile” from Sudan Notes and Records v33 pt2
Mynors, T.H.B.: “A school of administration in the Anglo Egyptian Sudan”, in Journal of African administration v2 no2 (H.M.S.O. 1950)
Mynors, T.H.B.: “Local government in the Sudan”, in Review of the International Union of Local Authorities v5 (1953)
Sudan [Condominium, 1899-1955], Khartoum Municipal Council: Know your municipal council [Arabic]
Sudan Football Association: Programme Season 1952-53 [Arabic]
Sudan Gezira Board: The Gezira scheme from within. A collection of articles by heads of departments (1954)
