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1918-1952 (Creation)
- Creator
- MacDermot, Terence William Leighton
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- 7.5 lm of textual records
- 5 photographs
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Biographical history
Diplomat and educator, Terence William Leighton MacDermot was born in Jamaica 1896; Rhodes Scholar (Oxford, M.A., B.A.); 1944 joined Department of External Affairs; 1946 with the United Nations, Special Organizational duties; 1950-1954 Canadian High Commissioner to South Africa; 1954-1957 Ambassador to Greece and Israel; High Commissioner to Australia until 1961; 1961 joined the staff of Bishop's University as Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science; died in Sherbrooke, 1966.
Custodial history
Transferred to the University archives, with permission of Mrs. MacDermot, by Bishop's University History professor Claude Thibault in 1974.
Scope and content
The fonds constitutes a rich source of information on several aspects of Canadian education, foreign affairs and politics.
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Original order has been maintained: the files boxed directly from the filing cabinets as had been kept by Professor MacDermot. Photos from individual files have been removed and placed into photo file BUA Old Library.
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Select portions of the fonds have been scanned.
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83-144