Record

LevelSub-fonds
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/ACC410
TitleAccession 410: Records of the Bishop Tugwell Diocesan Fund
Extent6 vols. and 11 items
Date1905-1963
DescriptionThis collection consists of financial records of the fund ie. ledgers and cash books and also miscellaneous printed papers
ArrangementThis collection forms part of the Church Missionary Society Unofficial Papers. It is arranged into two series: Official Papers and Miscellaneous Papers
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 in order 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.
Reference: Minutes of the Bishop Tugwell Diocesan Fund
Custodial HistoryDeposited with the CMS in May 1979; transferred on permanent loan to the Special Collections Department by the CMS in the 1980s
Related MaterialThe University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections Department holds an additional collection of records of the Bishop Tugwell Diocesan Fund (GB 0150 CMS/ACC343). It also holds the Church Missionary Society Archive, the official archive of the society (GB 0150 CMS), which includes papers relating its work in West Africa and the work of Bishop Tugwell. Special Collections also holds the Tugwell Collection, a collection of correspondence, diaries and other papers of Herbert Tugwell and his wife, Caroline, 1887-1937 (GB 0151 DA44)