Hilton Young Commission

Title

Hilton Young Commission

Shelfmark

MSS. Lugard 64

Summary

File 1, fols. 1-27: Correspondence with L.S. Amery and J.H. Oldham about the situation in Kenya, with a memorandum by Lugard on "The Kenya Question", 1927.

File 2, fols. 1-17: Correspondence with Sir John Harris and Sir Humphry Leggett about the conference of the Anti-Slavery Society held on 17 February about the Kenya settlers' demand for self-government, 1927.

File 3, fols. 1-27: Correspondence with J.H. Oldham, 1927-1928.

File 4, fols. 1-147: Correspondence with J.H. Oldham and Sir George Schuster about the Report on Closer Union in East Africa, with memoranda, comments, draft sections and revised versions, 1928.

File 5, fols. 1-37 and items 1-5: Official reports and memoranda, printed material on Lord Delamere and comments on Closer Union proposals, 1926-1928.

File 6, fols. 1-64: Evidence presented to the Commission by Sir John Chancellor, Sir James Maxwell (Governor of Northern Rhodesia) and Lugard himself, together with an additional memorandum requested by the Commission on the treaties concluded in East Africa by the Imperial British East Africa Company and comments on East Africa Closer Union by Lord Olivier, 1928.

File 7, item 1: Report of the Commission on Closer Union of the Dependencies in Eastern and Central Africa, Cmd.3234, 1929. File 7, item 2: Debate in the House of Lords on the Report of the Commission, initiated by Lugard on 13 March with Hansard proof corrected by him, 1929.

File 8, fols. 1-63: Correspondence with Lord Passfield, General Smuts, Sir Richard Palmer, Sir Humphry Leggett, Sir James Byrne, B.V. Frewin, C. Walker, Evan Biss, L.B. Freeston, Sir Alan Pim and Richard Fletcher, with a copy of a letter from Lord Francis Scott to J.H. Oldham, 1929-1936.

File 9, fols. 1-84: Memoranda and other papers commenting on the proposals for Closer Union in East Africa, annotated by Lugard and with one covering letter from Julian Stanley, 1929-1932.

Date

1926-1936

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box

Custodial history

The papers in MSS. Lugard 64/1-5 were kept by Margery Perham in a large envelope file labelled "Kenya. Memos and special papers I, 1926-1928, (H Young)" and were to be used for the chapter dealing with the origins of the Hilton Young Commission in her proposed book on Kenya.

The papers in MSS. Lugard 64/7-9 were kept by Margery Perham in a large envelope file labelled "Kenya Memos and special papers II, 1928-30".