[Sir Frank Stockdale, distinguished agronomist and colonial civil servant.] Family photograph album, with a few items of ephemera including his funeral service.

Stockdale was for decades the leading figure in his field within the British Empire and later the Commonwealth, and his work undoubtedly saved countless lives, and increased the welfare of many thousands. See his appreciative entry in the Oxford DNB, in which he is described as 'in many respects ahead of his time'. The present collection comprises a family photograph album with 86 photographs inserted and loose, with a copy of his funeral service, and few other items. All the material is in good condition, with only light signs of age and wear. PHOTOGRAPHS: 86 photographs of varying sizes, from a 16 x 21 cm studio photograph of an infant boy, signed by photograph 'B. L. J.' at bottom right (the only coloured image), to 4 x 4.5 cm (FAS in uniform with his two infant daughters Jane and Victoria dressed as nurses). The photographs and other material are in good condition, with 54 of them arranged on the first nine leaves and two tissue guards of a landscape photograph album, approximately 32 x 23 cm, with taupe cloth binding and thick ribbon at spine. The album is in good condition, but the guards are wrinkled and loose. Most of the images are uncaptioned, but they present a clear picture of a privileged upbringing, mostly set around a country house, with boys (his son Frank Alleyne Stockdale or his brother Maurice) playing at red Indians, dressed in pith helmet and shorts, on a pony, rowing on a lake. The girls are presented together at different ages, usually dressed in the same way, while bicycling, rowing and playing tennis. Other images involve a vintage motorcar, a pram, a trip to the seaside, a baptism, snow scenes, and the inevitable hunt. Stockdale and his wife are also shown outside a rather more modest house, with a baby girl (presumably a grand daughter). Some of the loose pictures are larger, with more hunting (one captioned on reverse January 1935 / Jane on Tally HO at the meet at Winchfield House') and one captioned on the reverse 'Susannah Elizabeth Wüxen-Becher's Christening. April 11th. 1948.' There is also a large loose photograph of Stockdale writing at a drop-leaf table with a walled bookcase behind him. There is also an earlier photograph of a family gathering on a church porch, with FAS in military uniform. There are smaller loose photographs of babies, horses, a colonial march past, a (damaged) image of a group of colonial functionaries in pith helmets, an old man (FAS?) in a nautical cap looking out to sea. Also present are three packets of negatives, one also containing a few contact prints. OTHER MATERIAL: A copy of FAS's funeral service, 6 September 1949, at St Stephen's, Rochester Row, Westminster. 4pp, 12mo. Bifolium containing a 4pp bifoliate of Stockdale's memorial address by the Rev. J. P. S. R. Gibson. Also an ACS to FAS from his son, with postmark dated 27 April 1927. Image of Repton School. 'Dear Dad, / Arrived here safely & got Mum a room at the Bulls head. Maurice I think is finding his way about alright. / Frank'. Also ALS (3pp, 12mo) from 'Anthony' to 'Vicki', from 22 Clare Street, Cambridge, 13 November [no year]: 'Very many thanks for so kindly giving up your coffee break to buy my fab' shirt. It arrived on Saturday too – so now I have no option but to praise the name of Stockdale for evermore etc.' Also, mimeographed 'Itinerary Messrs. Stockdale, Seel and Harrison', apparently relating to FAS's West African Tour of October to December 1929, with the colonial advisory council of agriculture and animal health. 1P, foolscap 8vo, containing thirteen items, beginning 'Arrive Dar es Salaam Friday November 21st' and ending 'Leave Amani 15th for Tanga and stay night and leave Tanga by ship for Mombasa 16th. Also three devotional items: an anonymous manuscript 'Confession', with sub-heading 'Omission', and ending 'I am too cowardly to keep any of the resolutions I make.'; two printed religious images, of the sort that Roman Catholics keep, one of them for the holy communion of 'Vicki', the other to 'Jane' from 'Felicity Scott'.