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LevelSub-fonds
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/ACC343
TitleAccession 343: Papers of the Bishop Tugwell Diocesan Fund
Extent2 volumes, 2 files, 8 items
Date1874-1948
DescriptionCommittee minutes, financial correspondence, circulars, and annual reports, 1895-1948.

There are also printed materials relating to diocesan work in West Africa, and photographs of missionaries and church buildings.
ArrangementThis collection forms part of the Church Mission Society Unofficial Papers. It is arranged into one series: Official Papers.
Access ConditionsAccess to all registered readers
LanguageEnglish
Finding AidsA catalogue of this collection (forming part of the wider CMS/ACC unofficial papers catalogue) is available on the online archive catalogue. Click on the Finding Number to display the summary contents list of the catalogue and to view the full catalogue. A paper copy of this catalogue is also available for consultation at Special Collections.
Access StatusOpen
Administrative HistoryThe Bishop Tugwell Diocesan Fund was established in 1895 following an appeal by Bishop Herbert Tugwell, as Bishop of West Equatorial Africa, for a separate independent fund to be put at his disposal to promote branches of his work which could not be met from the funds of the Church Missionary Society. A Committee was appointed to act as trustees, to collect contributions and to administer the fund. Following diocesan reorganisation the fund was used to assist work in the dioceses of Lagos and the Niger in Western Equatorial Africa.

Source: Minutes of the Bishop Tugwell Diocesan Fund.
Custodial HistoryDeposited with the CMS by the Secretaries of the Nigerian Fellowship, March 1976. Transferred on permanent loan to the University of Birminham by the CMS in the 1980s.
Related MaterialThe University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library holds an additional collection of records of the Bishop Tugwell Diocesan Fund in the CMS Unofficial Papers (GB 0150 CMS/ACC410). It also holds the Church Mission Society Archive (GB 0150 CMS), which includes papers relating to CMS work in West Africa and the work of Bishop Tugwell.

See also the Tugwell Collection, a collection of correspondence, diaries and other papers of Herbert Tugwell and his wife, Caroline, 1887-1937 (GB 0151 DA44).
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