Identity area
Reference code
ZA HPRA A149
Title
Reverend William Alfred Norton Papers
Date(s)
- 1918-1928 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
17 files and 9 photographs
Context area
Name of creator
(1870-1962)
Biographical history
"Father Norton" was a missionary of the Society of the Sacred Mission stationed at Modderpoort. He was a member of the Committee of the Albany Natural History Society, Grahamstown and the Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1920 he was appointed as its first professor of Bantu philology at the University of Cape Town.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Papers relating to the history of the Basuto and Norton's work under the Society of the Sacred Mission (SSM).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Zulu