Ainsworth - June to August 1909 engaged on the Commission of Inquiry into the affairs of Tanaland Province with Ainsworth   

Debrett - served on Transport duty during Uganda Mutiny 1897-8, with Jubaland Expedition 1900-01 (medal with clasp), and with Nandi Expedition 1905-6 (clasp); appointed Assist. Collector, EA Protectorate 1897, Collector 1900, Acting Vice-Consul for German E. Africa 1900, Sec. to Administration 1903, Sec. for Native Affairs and a MLC 1907, Colonial Sec. Sierra Leone 1912, Sec. Provisional Administration, German EA 1916, Ch. Sec. Tanganyika Territory 1919, and British Resident, Zanzibar 1923; is a Liveryman of Leathersellers' Co.  

EAHB 1905 - Assistant Collector, EAP, March 12th 1897; Collector June 15th 1900; Acting British Vice-Consul for GEA, April 1900 to Feb. 1901; Acting Secretary to the Administration and Private Secretary to H.M. Commissioner from Feb. to June 1901, and from Jan. 1902 to April 1903; Sec. to the Administration April 1st 1903.

The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa North - With Karl Perrot & Co. at Tanga, GEA June 1894; Visited Taveta 9/4/1895; Appt. Asst. Collector EAP 12/3/1897 aged 23; ill with dysentery, about 3 months from 27/5/1897; Asst. Dist. Officer Mombasa Dec. 1897, based at Rabai; Attached to military during Sudanese mutiny 1897-8; Asst. Collector Mombasa at June 1898; Taveta 1898; Asst. Collector at Taveta Sept 1899, April 1900; Appt. Acting Vice-Consul at Dar-es-Salaam, arr. Mombasa from Taveta 10/4/1900; Appt. District Officer & Collector Oct. 1900; Appt. Sec. to the Administration 1/4/1902

Playne - Mr Hollis is Secretary for Native Affairs - a post to which he was appointed on June 13, 1907. He was born at Highgate, London on May 12, 1874, and educated at Highgate, St. Leonards, in Switzerland and in Germany. He first arrived in BEA in March, 1897. He was Assistant Collector, EAP, March 12, 1897; Collector, June 15, 1900; Acting British Vice-Consul for German East Africa from April 1900 to Feb., 1901; Acting Sec. to the Administration, EAP, Feb. 1901 to April 1903, when he was confirmed in the post, which he held until he received his present appointment. Previous to his appointment in BEA, Mr Hollis spent 2 years as a partner in a commercial house in German East Africa. He has served on the Committee of the Nairobi Club and as Steward of the EA Turf Club, and has several times officiated as judge at the Nairobi races. He rendered assistance to the Transport Dept. during the Uganda Mutiny, 1897-98, and was for a short period Acting Director of Transport. He took part in the Jubaland Expedition, 1900-01, the Nandi Expedition, 1903, and the Nandi Expedition, 1905-06, and has the African General Service medal, clasps Jubaland and Nandi, 1905-06. Mr Hollis has published two books: "The Masai, Their Language and Folklore" (Oxford 1905) and "The Nandi, Their Language and Folklore" (Oxford 1909), as well as various papers on African subjects. He is a corresponding Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and a Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute.

Nicholls - Claud Hollis, a barrister's son, had been educated privately in Switzerland and Germany. At the age of 20 he went to German East Africa as an employee of a German company. Then in 1897, when 23 he joined the EAP administration as an assistant collector (or district officer as it became known). With fluent German he was an asset to a governor whose neighbouring territory belonged to the Germans, and Eliot made him his private secretary in 1900. Hollis was a very proper man, perhaps rather narrow-minded, and much more studious than his fellow administrators. He was looked upon with favour by the Foreign - and, later, Colonial - Office, and regarded as efficient and conscientous. The settlers saw him differently - he was not their sort of person, being, in their view, stuffy and pro-native.

Gazette - played in a football match for Mombasa against HMS Terpsichore on 1/7/1902

EA Diary 1902 - Listed as District Officer

EA Diary 1903 - Asst. Collector, EA Protectorate March 1897; Collector June 1900; Acting British Vice-Consul for German East Africa April 1900 to Feb 1901; Secretary to the Administration, EA Protectorate April 1902

Red Book 1912 - A.C. Hollis - Nairobi

Red Book 1912 - Committee Member of the EA Nursing Association - Mrs Hollis ?

Golf - present at first general meeting of Nairobi, later Royal Nairobi, Golf Club in 1910.

EAHB 1905 - Sec. to Administration, Mombasa

President of Mombasa Club 1908