Morris-Jones, Wyndraeth Humphreys (b 1918)

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Reference code(s): ICS 126

Title: Morris-Jones, Wyndraeth Humphreys (b 1918)

Date(s): 1962 - 1986

Level of description: Fond

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Name of creator(s): Jones, Wyndraeth Humphreys Morris-, b 1918, political scientist

Administrative/Biographical history: Wyndraeth Humphreys Morris-Jones: b 1918; educated at University College School, Hampstead, London School of Economics (LSE) and Christ's College Cambridge; served Indian Army, 1941-1946, Lt Col Public Relations Directorate, 1944; Constitutional Adviser to Viceroy of India, 1947; Lecturer in Political Science, LSE, 1946–55; Prof. of Political Theory and Institutions, University of Durham, 1955–65; Prof. of Commonwealth Affairs and Director, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, 1966–83; Editor, Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics (formerly Commonwealth Polit. Studies), 1964–80.

Publications: Parliament in India, 1957; Government and Politics of India, 1964, 4th edn 1987; (with Biplab Dasgupta) Patterns and Trends in Indian Politics, 1976; Politics Mainly Indian, 1978; articles in Polit. Studies, Asian Survey, Modern Asian Studies

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Scope and content: Research notes and papers of Professor Wyndraeth Humphreys Morris-Jones on Jamaican politics, 1962-1986, including copies of official publications and press cuttings; also copy of the Constitution of the Republic of Ghana, 1979

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Language/scripts of material: English

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Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: February 2002

Interest: Caribbean, Black

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Political science

International politics

History

Political history

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Jones, Wyndraeth Humphreys Morris-, b 1918, political scientist

Morris-Jones, Wyndraeth Humphreys

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Caribbean

Jamaica

West Africa

Ghana