| Administrative History | CMS Upper Nile mission [Elgon 1928-1936]
From 1 September 1926 work in the districts of Bukedi, Kitgum, Gulu, Lango and the Teso districts of Uganda [the newly constituted Upper Nile diocese] was separated from the CMS Uganda mission [A7] and was made a mission under the jurisdiction of the new Bishop of the Sudan. The archive series, however, does not begin until 31 December 1926.
Secretaries with primary responsibility for the Egypt and Sudan missions:
1889-1892 Robert Lang; 1892-1912 Frederick Baylis; 1912-1925 George Thomas Manley; 1926-1934 Handley Douglas Hooper
Secretary to the General Committee [Honorary Clerical Secretary 1889-1992; General Secretary 1922-1934] [The General Committee was the policy-making committee and its secretary was considered primus inter pares]:
1880-1895 Frederick Edward Wigram; 1895-1910 Henry Elliott Fox; 1910-1922 Cyril Charles Bowman Bardsley; 1923-1925 Herbert Lankaster; 1926-1941 William Wilson Cash
Lay Secretary [secretary to Finance Committee]:
1888-1894 Major General Clennell Collingwood; 1895-1907 David Marshall Lang; 1908-1909 Robert Machonachie; 1910-1921 Herbert Lankaster; 1922-1925 John Kinahan [acting]; 1925-1937 Louis Steele |
| Custodial History | Papers catalogued by Rosemary Keen, 1980. Deposited in the Library of the University of Birmingham, 1981. |