Janus: Alexander Chancellor photographs

RCS contains:
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Y3031E	Pudu English School
Y3031F	Girl Guiding in Malaya [i.e. Malay Peninsula]
Y3031G	Le Fevre Malayan Collection 1907-1918
Y3031H	Human sacrifice in Perak 1913
Y3031I	Charles Edwin Spooner collection, 1904-1907/09
Y3031J	Alexander Chancellor photographs
Y3031K	Drake Collection, 1959-61
Y3031L	British family, Perak, Xmas 1922
Y3031M	E.J.H. Corner photographs
Y30333A	Views in the Dutch East Indies (Java and Sumatra), 1880s-1890s
Y30333B	Photographs of Macassar, circa 1900
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Alexander Chancellor photographs

Title	Alexander Chancellor photographs
Reference	GBR/0115/Y3031J
Creator	Unknown
Covering Dates	1903-circa 1905
Extent and Medium	2 images
Repository	Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library

Content and context

Photographs of Alexander Richard Chancellor, C.B.E. (1869-1959). He served in the Highland Light Infantry 1893-1895, joined the Colonial Police and was posted to Barbados. In 1902 he accepted an offer to transfer to the Straits Settlements Police, being Chief Police Officer of Malacca from 1903-1905. He became Chief Police Officer of Singapore in 1907, Inspector-General in 1914 and retired in 1922.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Alexander Chancellor photographs, Y3031J

Further information

These photographs are housed with the Chancellor Papers at BAM, III, 4.

Indexed

This collection level description was entered by SG using information from the original typescript catalogue.

Index Terms

Asia

Malaysia

Chancellor, Alexander Richard (1869-1959) Inspector-General of Police

RCS/Y3031J contains:

[A.R. Chancellor as Chief Police Officer, Melaka, about 1905]. 550 x 200 mm. Half-length portrait.

circa 1905

[A.R. Chancellor as Chief Police Officer, Melaka, in 1903]. 110 x 80 mm. Chancellor is seated in a one-horse carriage in front of a house, and a police constable stands in the background.

1903