Papers of William Borrowdale Tripe 1928-1945

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Papers of William Borrowdale Tripe 1928-1945

3 boxes, 1 volume

eng,

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Great Britain Colonial Administrative Service

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Tripe William Borrowdale 1906-1972

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William Borrowdale Tripe

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William Borrowdale Tripe was born on the 22 July 1906 in Wellington, New Zealand, and was educated at Christ's College. In 1929 he came to England to undertake a Colonial Service course at Oxford University, where he was attached to Balliol College; in 1932 he re-visited Oxford to take a course in Anthropology and later became a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. For the following 20 years Tripe served with the Colonial Administration in Tanganyika, with the exception of his war serv...