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Name: HUMPHERY, Ronan Wollaston
Short Name: 'Magosi' (gaiters)
Nee: son of Ernest John Humphery
Birth Date: 12 Apr 1877 Brighton
Death Date: 28 Apr 1913 Nairobi, enteric fever
Nationality: British
First Date: 1900
Last Date: 1913
Profession: Asst Collector EAP, Teita District 1902, DC Machakos 1908 Commander EA Unit Legion of Frontiersmen 1910.
Area: Nairobi, HBEA 1912 DC Nairobi, 1900 DC Machakos, EAHB 1906 Fort Hall
Married: In South Kensington 4.8.1903 Mary Dieudonnée Evans b. 28.7.1884 Ealing, d. 20 Nov 1981 Ealing (div. 1912) (later m. Langford Whitehouse 1866-1923)
Book Reference: Gillett, SE, HBEA, Kenya Diary, EAHB 1905, Red 25, EAS, Hut, EA Diary 1903, Drumkey, EAHB 1906, North, EA Diary 1902, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907, Barnes, Red Book 1912, Roosevelt, Machakos
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Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - Ruth Humphery, British, age 41, died 19/10/28 ?
SE - R.W. Humphery - Dec 1909.
Nairobi South cemetery - Ronan Wollaston Humphery, died 28 April 1933, aged 36 - "… District Commissioner, EA Protectorate and OC Nairobi Unit Legion of Frontiersmen
Kenya Diary - Nov. 1903 - Fort Hall - Humphery and his wife have arrived. He is the new District Officer.
EAHB 1905 - Assistant Collector, EAP, April 20th 1900; Chief Commissariat Officer, African Forces, Ogaden Punitive Forces, 1901; Acting Collector, Teita District, May 1902; Collector, April 1st 1903.
Red 25 - Chairman, Municipal Committee, Nairobi 1910-13
The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa ........... Mr R.W. Humphery, ADO, of Mtate, left by the Juba on Tuesday on leave to Europe.
North - District Officer at Fort Hall with wife from Nov 1903
Drumkey 1909 - DC Ukamba, Machakos
North - 'Magosi' (gaiters); Appt. Asst. Collector EAP 20-4-1900; arr. Mombasa from England 5-7-1900; dep. Mombasa for Kismayu 8-7-1900; Chief of African Commissariat for Ogaden Punitive Force, Kismayu Dec 1900; Listed as Asst. District Officer EAP stationed at Nairobi 19-3-1901
EA Diary 1902 - Listed as Assistant District Officer
EA Diary 1903 - Asst. Collector June 1900; Chief Commissariat Officer, African Forces, 1900; Ogaden Punitive Force; Acting Collector, Teita District May 1902
EAHB 1907 - Collector - Elgon
Red Book 1912 - R.W. Humphery - Nairobi - Ukamba Province - DC at Nairobi
Gazette 1/5/1913 - Obituary - His Excellency the Governor announces with deep regret the death of Mr R.W. Humphery, District Commissioner Nairobi which took place on the morning of April 28th at the European Hospital. Mr Humphery joined the Protectorate Administration in April 1900 and was promoted to be a District Commissioner in 1903. He was an exceedingly capable energetic and efficient officer, widely popular with all sections of the community and his loss not only to the service but to a very wide circle of personal friends will be most severely felt.
Obituary - The African World - 31 May 1913, p.229
Divorce Court File: 2857. 1912 - Appellant: Mary Diendonnée Humphery. Respondent: Ronan Wollaston Humphery. Type: Wife's petition for judicial separation [wjs].
Divorce Court File: 2856. 1912 - Appellant: Ronan Wollaston Humphery. Respondent: Mary D Humphery. Type: Husband's petition for divorce [hd].
HBEA 1912 - Chairman, Nbi. Municipal Committee and Steward of EA Turf Club.
EAHB 1905 - Collector, Fort Hall
Roosevelt - bound to do justice to both, and, what was quite as important, sympathising with the settlers and knowing and understanding their needs. DC - just leaving for his biennial holiday. I heard praise of him from Boer and English, as a strong man, not in the least afraid of either settler or native
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