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Name: HIGGINS, Evelyn Scott (Capt.)

Birth Date: 19 Oct 1877 Nagpur, India, bapt, Sitabaldi 17 Nov.

Death Date: 4 Nov 1933 Chard, Somerset

First Date: 1899

Profession: BEA Police Force

Area: 1919 Fort Hall, 1922 Lamu, 1925 Nairobi, 1930 Lumbwa, 1922 Kitale Police

Married: In Kensington 1929 Beryl Aileen Berkeley Hill b. 1895 Sulby, Northants., d. 1978

Book Reference: Gillett, HBEA, Police, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, North, Red 22, Dominion, Web, Red Book 1912, Red 19

War Service: Royal Warwickshire Regt.

General Information:

North - Uganda Railway - Asst. Traffic Superintendent; ill at Mombasa Jan 1900; One of 8 officials named by the 'Railway Strike Committee' as treating their subordinates with 'extreme discourtesy and tyranny' (CO 573) 31-3-1900; Failed traffic exams & to be sacked, spent too much of his time shooting (Whitehouse) 31/10/1900; given 3 months' notice 21/12/1900, dep. Mombasa for UK 25/1/1901; dep. Mombasa up-country 12-3-1903
Dominion - Superintendent of Police - 1930
HBEA 1912 - Asst. Superintendent of Police, Fort Hall.  
Police - Appointed an Inspector in the BEA Police in 1905 (25th May) - later Asst. Superintendent.  
KAD 1922 Asst. Superintendent of Police, Lamu
Web - Account of a journey in Somaliland of a small shooting party - Members of the party - Mr G. La Touche, R. Bond (Capt. RE), Mr Evelyn Scott Higgins (the Professional Shikar, resident in Somaliland), Capt. Hugo Meynell, Lady [Minna] Jenkins, Miss A. Williams - {Diary and photograph album held by University of Kansas.
Web - 1901 UK Census - Kensington, London - Evelyn Scott Higgins, age 23, born about 1878 at Nagfur [sic], India, son of John James and Kate Higgins.
Red Book 1912 - Police Dept. - Assistant Superintendent
Red Book 1919 - Asst. Superintendent of Police
Gazette - 26/9/1923 - Voters Register - Coast - Scott, Evelyn Higgins, Asst. Superintendent of Police, Lamu

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