Interview with Hubert Cecil Gotts [sound recording]

About his career with Cox & Co., bankers, in Bombay, Calcutta, and Rangoon, and his social life in India and Burma.


Order number: OA4, Memories of the British in India, Sound Cassettes, Box 1 [CLOSED]
Date(s) of creation: 24 September 1984
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Gotts; Hubert Cecil (b 1901); banker
Other authors: Blake; David M (fl 1983); librarian and interviewer

Order number: OA4, Memories of the British in India, Sound Cassettes, Box 1 [CLOSED]
Summary: About his career with Cox & Co., bankers, in Bombay, Calcutta, and Rangoon, and his social life in India and Burma.
Main author: Gotts; Hubert Cecil (b 1901); banker
Other authors: Blake; David M (fl 1983); librarian and interviewer
Previous numbers: OA2/174/1-5
Extent: 3 sound casettes
Admin history: Hubert Cecil Gotts - Trainee with Cox & Co., bankers, 1919; posted to Bombay as Assistant, 1921, to Calcutta, 1924-27, to Bombay 1927-45; Manager, Rangoon Branch, 1945-51
Custodial history: Recorded as part of the ’Memories of the British in India’ project by India Office Library & Records [subsequently the Oriental and India Office Collection, British Library]. This recording was previously held at SOAS Library as part of the 'British in India Oral Archive Project' collection [Reference OA2], removed from this collection in August 2014 to reflect the recording’s alternative provenance as part of the ‘Memories of the British in India’ project.
Access status: Closed
Access conditions: Sound recording currently unavailable at SOAS Library due to preservation reasons. Researchers can access a copy of this audio recording at the British Library Listening & Viewing Service. For more details see www.bl.uk/listening or contact listening@bl.uk / 020 7412 7418.
Copyright: Copyright held by British Library
User restrictions: Private study only. For publication or broadcast please refer to Archivist
Language: English
Originals: Original sound recording of interview available at British Library Listening & Viewing Service [Reference: C63/142-150]
Format: Archive