Papers of Sir Ralph Dolignon Furse 1916-1964

Furse, Ralph Dolignon, Sir, 1887-

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Sir Ralph Dolignon Furse was born in London on the 29 September 1887 and educated at Eton, and Balliol College, Oxford. He joined the Colonial Office in 1910 as Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State, Lewis (later Viscount) Harcourt. During World War I he was on active service in France and Italy; he was wounded in 1917, twice mentioned in despatches, and appointed to the DSO in 1918 with bar in 1919. Furse rejoined the Colonial Office in 1919 as Assistant...

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Following charges of mail fraud in 1922, Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) leader Marcus Garvey planned a world tour scheduled to begin in February 1923 to counter the negative publicity. Garvey's intentions provoked anxiety among British colonial officials which then put him and other UNIA members in British West African colonies under surveillance. From the description of Universal Negro Improvement Association miscellaneous collection, 1922-1923. (New York Public Libr...

Furse, Ralph, 1887-1973

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