Guide to the Papers of Brigadier A.T. Shakespear (as filmed by the AJCP), 1934-December 1941

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Summary

Collection number:

M1198

Creator:

Shakespear, A.T., Brigadier

Extent:

6 items

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Citation items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February-23 September 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

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Background

Content Summary:

Album 1934-1936 containing newspaper cuttings, invitations and photographs of Singapore, Malaya and Ceylon, a small group of letters and a notebook.

Diary kept by Mrs A.T. Shakespeare 1934-1935 describing the voyage from England and the first three months in Singapore.

Biographical / Historical:

Arthur Talbot Shakespear (1885-1964), the son of Colonel Arthur Bucknell Shakespear, was born at Plymouth. He was educated at Cheltenham College and the Royal Military College. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in 1906 and promoted to the rank of captain in 1914. He was stationed in Ireland and Malta and during World War I he served in France and Belgium, where he won the Military Cross. After the War, he served in Egypt and Gibraltar and was promoted to major in 1922, lieutenant-colonel in 1929, colonel in 1933 and brigadier (Local) 1934. Subsequently stationed in Malta, Gibraltar, Singapore and Egypt. Assistant Adjutant and Quarter-Master General, Malaya, 1934-1937, A.R.P. Officer, Richmond, 1938-1939, Assistant Adjutant and Quarter-Master General Gibraltar, 1940.

In 1832 H.T. De La Beche (1796-1855) was commissioned by the Ordnance Survey to colour geologically maps of south west England and in 1835 he was appointed the first officer of the Geological Ordnance Survey. In 1840 he established a Mining Records Office to preserve the plans of abandoned mines and in 1841 the Museum of Economic Geology was opened. In 1845 the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland was separated from the Ordnance Survey and was placed under the purview of the Office of Woods and Forests (later the Department of Science and Art). In 1851 both the Geological Survey and the Museum (renamed the Museum of Practical Geology) moved to Jermyn Street and at the same time the Government School of Mines (later the Royal School of Mines) was opened. De La Beche was Director of all four institutions.

In 1872 some of the departments of the Royal School of Mines were transferred to South Kensington and the remainder had followed by 1890, eventually forming part of the Imperial College of Science and Technology. The Mining Records Office was transferred to the Home Office in 1883. The Geological Survey and Museum moved to South Kensington in 1934-35. In 1965 the Institute of Geological Sciences was established, incorporating the Geological Survey, Geological Museum and the Overseas Geological Surveys.

References:

J.S. Flett. The first hundred years of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. (London, H.M.S.O. 1937)

E. Bailey. Geological survey of Great Britain. (London, Murby, 1952.)

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