GB 0099 KCLMA Keown-Boyd - KEOWN-BOYD, Sir Alexander (1884-1954)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Keown-Boyd 1919-1922 Collection level 1 file or 0.01m3 Keown-Boyd , Sir , Alexander , 1884-1954 , Knight

Born 1884; educated Merchant Taylors' School and St John's College, Oxford; Sudan Civil Service, 1907-1916; Private Secretary to the High Commissioner for Egypt, 1917-1919; Oriental Secretary to the High Commissioner for Egypt, 1919-1922; Director General, Foreign Affairs, Egyptian Government, 1922; Director General, European Department, Ministry of the Interior, Egyptian Government, 1923-1937; died 1954.

Presented to the Centre by the family, July 2006

Papers of Sir Alexander Keown-Boyd comprising correspondence, 1920-1922, from FM Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and of Felixstowe, then High Commissioner for Egypt, to Keown-Boyd, Oriental Secretary, discussing proposals to change staff at the Foreign Office, September 1921; the assassination of Henry Wilson by Irish Republicans, June 1922; and comparison of Anglo-Irish and Anglo-Egyptian relations. Also invitation, details of arrangements and dinner seating plan for the admission to the Freedom of the City of London of FM Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and of Felixstowe, 7 Oct 1919.

1 file

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archives and Information Management.
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Summary guide entry on-line.

The Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives holds the papers of FM Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and of Felixstowe, 1881-1955.

Decorations: CBE, OBE
Entry compiled by Katharine Higgon. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997. July 2007 Allenby , Edmund (Henry Hynman) , 1861-1936 , 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo , Field Marshal Anglo-Irish War (1920-1922) Diplomacy Foreign relations International conflicts International relations Keown-Boyd , Sir , Alexander , 1884-1954 , Knight War Wilson , Sir , Henry Hughes , 1864-1922 , Knight , Field Marshal and politician Wars (events)

Presented to the Centre by the family, July 2006

Papers of Sir Alexander Keown-Boyd comprising correspondence, 1920-1922, from FM Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and of Felixstowe, then High Commissioner for Egypt, to Keown-Boyd, Oriental Secretary, discussing proposals to change staff at the Foreign Office, September 1921; the assassination of Henry Wilson by Irish Republicans, June 1922; and comparison of Anglo-Irish and Anglo-Egyptian relations. Also invitation, details of arrangements and dinner seating plan for the admission to the Freedom of the City of London of FM Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and of Felixstowe, 7 Oct 1919.

1 file

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archives and Information Management.

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The Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives holds the papers of FM Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and of Felixstowe, 1881-1955.

Summary guide entry on-line.

Decorations: CBE, OBE

Decorations: CBE, OBE

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

• English