Library Research Guide for British Colonial and Foreign Relations Sources

To find personal writings by British administrators and others, search in HOLLIS: (Narratives OR Diaries OR Correspondence OR Memoir?) AND India, limiting to English.

World Biographical Information System includes online full text of thousands of biographical dictionaries accessible by name of biographee. More information.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) indexes thousands of English-language biographical dictionaries and other compendia. Not full text; one must do HOLLIS searches for retrieved sources.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is the standard British source for biographies of major figures. Can do searches of occupations and limit by date: Advanced Search Options: People Search.

Colonial Service biographical data: the published sources, by A.H.M. Kirk-Greene. African Research and Documentation, no. 46 (1988), pp. 2-16.

A biographical dictionary of the British Colonial Service, 1939-1966, by A.H.M. Kirk-Greene. London; New York : H. Zell, 1991, 403 p.
HOLLIS Record (F at the end of the call number means that this book is oversize and shelved at the end of the main DA sequence, Widener Level 1 East
--Includes the nearly 15,000 names in the Colonial Office List with birth year, education, and posts held.

Britain's Imperial Administrators, 1858-1966, by A. Kirk-Greene. Basingstoke: Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press in association with St Antony's College, Oxford, 2000, 347 p.
HOLLIS Record