IDNO

P.156751.MAT

Description

"Sir Geoffrey & Lady Archer leaving Uganda for the Sudan." [photographer's? caption]

The Archers, a European couple are standing on the rear platform of a railway carriage. [EB 28/08/2024]

Place

E Africa; NE Africa; Uganda; Sudan

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Sir Geoffrey Archer (1882 - 1964); Lady Olive Mary Archer (1894-1976)

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

?1926

Collection Name

Museum Archives Transfer

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.156647.MAT - P.156864.MAT and P.176654.MAT - P.176687.MAT were found unaccessioned in a red folder box in the Paper Archives and transferred to the Photograph Collections and numbered C1048/ [JD 28/08/2025]

P.156743.MAT - P.156767.MAT and P.176654.MAT - P.176678.MAT were located in a brown envelope, now numbered C1048/4.

P.156743.MAT - P.156763.MAT were located in a 'Calderoni és Társa' envelope, now numbered C1048/4/1.

Named Person: "Sir Geoffrey Francis Archer KCMG (4 July 1882 – 1 May 1964) was an English ornithologist, big game hunter and colonial official. He was Commissioner and then Governor of British Somaliland between 1913 and 1922, and was responsible for finally quelling the twenty-year-long Dervish resistance.
From 1922 to 1925, Archer was appointed Governor of Uganda. He later served as Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan between 1925 and 1926. ...
"After leaving the Sudan, Archer spent most of the next fifteen years organizing the salt industry in Kutch, India.[3] Archer settled in the south of France when he retired, dying at Cannes on 1 May 1964." [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Archer_(colonial_administrator)#:~:text=Sir%20Geoffrey%20Francis%20Archer%20KCMG,%2Dyear%2Dlong%20Dervish%20resistance, JD 15/08/2025]