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'A Grandfather's Tale: Memoirs being mainly concerned with service in the Indian Army and the Indian Political Service in India and the Persian Gulf from 1932-1947' [55r] (109/118)
The record is made up of 1 file (57 folios). It was created in Jul 1984. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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July, 1984
Rottingdean, Sussex.
In 1961, after a very short time with "Overseas Service", then being
run by Dr. Harry Holland, the elder son of my old friend Sir Henry, I
applied for the appointment of Diocesan Secretary and Secretary of the Board
of Finance of the Diocese of Chichester. Roughly 140 other people had the
same idea but I was lucky enough to be the one chosen, and served as Diocesan
Secretary from 1961 - 1976. It was very hard work, but one of the most
satisfying jobs I have ever done, and during my first three years in the
Diocese, which covers the whole of Sussex end a few square miles of Kent,
Surrey and Hampshire, I managed to visit over 90$ of the five hundred clergy
in their own homes, and became good friends with most of them. At the least
I was no longer a faceless stranger at the end of a telephone. As the old
Army adage has it "Time spent in reconnaissance is rarely wasted", and I put
this dictum into practice in the Diocese just as I had done when touring the
four hundred villages in the Abercorn District of Northern Rhodesia.
When Synodical Government came into force in 1970, I became, in
addition to my other duties, Secretary of the Chichester Diocesan Synod, and
remained so until my retirement in 1976.
Apart from my Diocesan work I was appointed to the Hove Bench in 1965*
having previously served as a magistrate in Surrey from 1957, and I still
remain a Justice of the Peace, although I ceased to sit on the Bench in 1982
on reaching the age limit of seventy. Since I had been a magistrate on and
off from 1936, on my first Political Service appointment to Baroda, I was not
after 46 years, too sad at having to retire.
I intend to write in greater detail, at some later stage, of my service
in Central Africa, but this, for the time being, is the end of my story.
Hugh Ranee
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A memoir written by Major Hugh Dunstan Holwell Rance about his career in the Indian Army and the Indian Political Service The branch of the British Government of India with responsibility for managing political relations between British-ruled India and its surrounding states, and by extension the Gulf, during the period 1937-47. ( IPS The branch of the British Government of India with responsibility for managing political relations between British-ruled India and its surrounding states, and by extension the Gulf, during the period 1937-47. ), 1932-47. The memoir details:
- His childhood and education
- His service in the Indian Army, 1932-36 and 1940-43
- His service in the IPS The branch of the British Government of India with responsibility for managing political relations between British-ruled India and its surrounding states, and by extension the Gulf, during the period 1937-47. , 1936-40, at Baroda [Vadodara], Simla [Shimla], Agra, Rajkot, Bushire [Bushehr], Shiraz and Bahrain
- His service in the IPS The branch of the British Government of India with responsibility for managing political relations between British-ruled India and its surrounding states, and by extension the Gulf, during the period 1937-47. , 1943-47, at Quetta, Mekran [Makran], Bahrain, the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. [United Arab Emirates] and Shiraz
- His career with the Colonial Service in Northern Rhodesia [Zambia] and at the Colonial Office in London, 1948-51
- His career in the private sector, 1952-76.
Folios 56-58 contain photocopies of maps showing parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and the Gulf.
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- 1 file (57 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 59; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: a typed pagination sequence is present between ff 6-55.
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- 'A Grandfather's Tale: Memoirs being mainly concerned with service in the Indian Army and the Indian Political Service in India and the Persian Gulf from 1932-1947'
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- front, front-i, 2r:55v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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