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Memoir of the Career of Thomas Edward Rogers [3r] (5/118)
The record is made up of 1 file (59 folios). It was created in Mid 20th century. 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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The deep divide between Catholic and Protestant was more acute in my time
than in the Lawrence era. I met it head-on as I walked to school through
Catholic areas. I was easy game for boys who used to waylay me, sometimes in
gangs, and ask me what my religion was. I was in many a scrap for owning myself
to be Protestant and was soon known to be coming to or from the exclusively
Protestant Foyle College founded in 1617 when the town of Derry had been handed
over to the City of London to be, in the phrase of the time, 'colonised' under
its new name of Londonderry. This was after the confiscated lands of the great
Catholic O'Neill family had been distributed among twelve of the livery companies
of London. Protestant Foyle College had its Catholic counterpart in St. Columb's
College. There was even a cinema almost exclusively attended by Catholics
which my sister and I were scolded for going to by an otherwise kindly neighbour.
When I was small our old maidservant counted it one up for her faith when she
took me to the font of her Catholic church from time to time and put the sign
of the cross on my forehead in holy water. I never grudged her this little
satisfaction.
Each year on the high city walls overlooking the Catholic area of the Bogside
a huge effigy was burned of the traitor Colonel Lundy who sought in the famous
siege of 1688 to betray the city to the Catholic troops of James II. On the
same day the Catholic population of the Bogside made heavy smoke from domestic
fires to blot out the offensive sight of Lundy burning and spoil the pleasure
of Protestant spectators. I was so familiar with the city that when fifty years
later I went back for the first time I drove right into the Bogside without a
second thought. I soon saw from the stares of men at street corners that I was
in a 'no go' area for British troops. I turned the car round as quickly as I
could without arousing suspicion and came out fast.
Within two years of my parents' arrival in Ulster in 1919, the Irish home
rule 'troubles', as they were called, boiled up in Londonderry. Suddenly I
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The file consists of a memoir written by Thomas Edward Rogers. The memoir covers his background, education and career. He also records his reasons for joining 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. . The memoir relates his career in India and in the Foreign Service in Bengal, Persia [Iran] and the Gulf, Quetta (including experiences of post-Independence unrest), and as Deputy Secretary in the Pakistan Cabinet Secretariat. It also relates his career with the Foreign Office in Spain, Yugoslavia, Argentina, Canada, and Colombia.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio 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. The file also contains an original foliation sequence.
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