T.B.R. Westgate Collection on German East Africa

Thomas Buchanan Reginald Westgate was a Canadian missionary who joined the Church Missionary Society in German East Africa in 1902. During World War I he was imprisoned by the Germans and after his release returned to Canada. He revisited East Africa in the 1930s.

A collection of loose prints. The prints mostly relate to Westgate's earlier work, but there are a few from the 1930s, including nos. 426-454 of visits to South Africa and African islands, all processed in February 1936.

The collection was given through the Royal African Society by Mrs Peggy Brimson Tucker, on behalf of the Westgate family, April 1982.

Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, T.B.R. Westgate Collection on German East Africa, Y30469F

Some of the Westgate collection is still to be sorted and catalogued. This includes original glass negatives of photographs taken at the beginning of the century, later film negatives, copy negatives and also transparencies and coloured photographs taken by Westgate's daughter in East Africa. Typescript drafts of chapters from Westgate's autobiography, 'A son of the Canadian Church', discussing his time in German East Africa can be found at RCMS 179.

Indexed

This collection level description was entered by MJC and KS using information from the original typescript catalogue.

This collection is available on microfiche: Africa, fiche numbers 122-124.