Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: G. W. Titherington
Dates of creation: 1919-1962
Extent: 0.5 box
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: G. W. Titherington
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.T. 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 (636/12/1-12); slave raids (636/12/13-14); trekking (636/12/17-20); preparations for going on leave 636/12/21-23); crop irrigation and cultivation (636/12/24-27); amalgamation of three provinces into Northern Province (636/12/29); travel arrangements for going on leave (636/12/30); closing down of provinces and progress of “Native Administration” (636/12/31); concerns for military security round Atbara (636/12/32)
SAD.636/12/34-36
1950 Nov 8
Letter from G.W.T. 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.T.'s service in Wau, Bahr el Ghazal:
SAD.491/5/2
Inspector's house, Wau
SAD.491/5/3
Governor's office, mudiriyah, Wau
SAD.491/5/4
Inspector's office, Wau
SAD.491/5/5
G.W.T. inspecting prisoners at Wau prison
SAD.491/5/7
Crested crane
SAD.491/5/8
Group of female former slaves, waiting for G.W.T. to open his mail
SAD.491/5/9
Hunting trophies
SAD.491/5/10
G.W.T. treating a woman with an ulcer on her neck
SAD.491/5/12
The first lion and lioness shot by G.W.T.
SAD.491/5/13
Lion, shot dead by G.W.T.
SAD.491/5/14
G.W.T.'s cook, sitting on a dead rhinocerous
SAD.491/5/15
Jur men cutting up an eland
SAD.491/5/16
Jur men and a dead 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.491/5/21
Rest house, Wau district
SAD.491/5/23-27
Groups of Dinka men and women
SAD.491/5/28
First elephant shot by G.W.T., 1923
SAD.491/5/29
Dinka men displaying a pair of ivory tusks weighing 90lbs
SAD.491/5/30,32
15 foot dead crocodile
SAD.491/5/31
Dead elephant, shot by G.W.T.
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.T. and a group of Dinka men
SAD.491/5/37
G.W.T.'s temporary house built by Dinkas
SAD.491/5/38
Thatched tukls, possibly a rest house, in front of a dulayb palm tree
SAD.491/5/39
Dinka people gathering
SAD.491/5/40
Dinka people with some chiefs (clothed)
SAD.491/5/41
Jur woman giving G.W.T.'s police escorts a drink
SAD.491/5/42
Dinka chiefs' court
SAD.491/5/43
Dinka children playing
SAD.491/5/45
Dinka siblings collecting water from a well
SAD.491/5/46
G.W.T.'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.T.'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.T.
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.491/5/57
Man riding on a bull
SAD.491/5/58
Grave of Chief Mowein Anig, possibly Dinka
SAD.491/5/59
Dinka family migrating
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.491/5/68-71
Man and wild dog
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.T.'s new house being thatched
SAD.491/5/77
Temporary house, under a fig tree, while G.W.T.'s new house is constructed
SAD.491/5/78-79
Construction stages of G.W.T.'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.491/5/92
Men on a timber raft
SAD.491/5/93
Men holding two basketware grain storage bins
SAD.491/5/94
Group of people awaiting a yaws inspection
SAD.491/5/95
Three young women
SAD.491/5/98
Young women pounding corn
SAD.491/5/99
Bull-drawn carts
SAD.491/5/100
Wood-cutter up a tree
SAD.491/5/102
Tukl on stilts, possible grain store
SAD.491/5/103
Dr. Musa holding a baby
SAD.491/5/104
Dinka family outside a hut built on stilts
SAD.491/5/105
Dinka men at rest
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.T. Photographs 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.845/8/8
Temple of Sulb
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.845/8/20
Cotton plants
SAD.845/8/22
Descending Jabal Barkal, possibly Professor Mason (U.S.A.) and Mrs. Coryton
SAD.845/8/23-24
Khawr in flood in Merowe
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
Printed material deposited with collection; now integrated into library and catalogued on OPAC
