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- Permanent Link:
- https://digital.soas.ac.uk/IBP0001679/00001
Notes
- Subject:
- Eugene Allen Gilmore served as Vice Governor-General of the Philippines from 1922 through 1929, and twice during that time as Governor-General in 1927 and 1929. He returned to the United States of America, where he served as Dean of the College of Law at the University of Iowa from 1930 to 1934 when he became President of the University of Iowa, serving from 1934 until 1940. On leaving the post in Iowa, he became Dean at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, serving from 1940 through 1942. ( English )
- General Note:
- Source of Acquisition: Bequeathed to SOAS library on Ifor Ball Powell's death in December 1985 with the collection being received the following January.
- General Note:
- Biographical information: Ifor Ball Powell was born on 12 September 1902, at Llanfihangel Talyllyn, Brecon. He was a student at Aberystwyth in the early 1920s, where he came under the influence of C.K. Webster and Sidney Herbert in the then newly founded department of International Politics. A Rockefeller fellowship took him to the University of Michigan to study American history. While there he became interested in the Far East. Powell became particularly interested in the Philippines, when he arrived there as a Rockefeller scholar in 1926. He spent three years visiting islands in the central and southern Philippines, collecting a vast amount of information and material on the government, economy and history of the islands. He was particularly interested in the history of the British in the Philippines and collected material on British firms and society. After his return to Britain, and for the rest of his life, Ifor Powell continued his interest in and links with the Philippines, writing to many Filipino friends and colleagues and maintaining an extensive collection of press cuttings. -- During the 1930s, Ifor Powell taught history at Barry County Grammar School for Boys. In 1940 he took up wartime duties as a temporary civil servant in the Ministry of Labour. He also visited the United States as a representative of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. In 1945 he was appointed to the Department of History, University College, Cardiff, to teach modern European history. In this position he introduced courses on the expansion of Europe, Far Eastern and American history. From 1949 his teaching was entirely in these fields. Cardiff was thus among one of the first history departments in the UK to widen its syllabus to accommodate new areas of interest created by the Second World War. -- He married Anne Nora Lewis (d. 9 March 1983) on 18 August 1931. There were no children. Ifor Ball Powell died on 11 December 1985, at Barry, Glamorgan.
- General Note:
- VIAF (name authority) : Gilmore, Eugene Allen, 1871-1953 : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/315534569
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Holding Location:
- Archives and Special Collections
- Rights Management:
- All applicable rights reserved by the source institution and holding location.
- Resource Identifier:
- PP MS 26/3/1/5 ( soas manuscript number )
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