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Name: HUNTER, Charles Stuart
Birth Date: 18.8.1871 Leith, Midlothian
Death Date: 1935
Profession: Uganda Railway Official, Asst Engineer 1904, Dist. Eng. Nakuru. Draughtsman
Area: Nakuru, 1st car owner in Nakuru, Kilindini, Kisumu
Book Reference: Gillett, HBEA, Permanent Way, EAHB 1905, EAS, Hut, North, Playne, EA Diary 1903, Drumkey, EAHB 1906, Gazette, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907, Leader14, Red Book 1912, Red 19
School: Royal High School, Edinburgh
General Information:
EAHB 1905 - Lake Survey. Engineers Dept., North British Railway, Edinburgh; Asst. Engineer, Uganda Railway
The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa
North - Uganda Railway, Draughtsman & General Service; Chief Draughtsman; on leave Feb 1899; Junior Asst. Engineer; on survey of Lake to German border area June 1899; Kisumu 2/3/1900; On lake survey with B. Whitehouse ended June 1901; Issued with Bird Licence between Oct & Dec 1901; Land Grant application 29/9/1903 Nairobi
Playne - Group Photograph - 'Officers of the Uganda Railway 1909' - Asst. Engineer
Drumkey 1909 - Railway Dept. - Assistant Engineer
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Nairobi District - C.S. Hunter, Uganda Railway
North - From Edinburgh; Member of the 'Uganda Syndicate' with W.J. Croall seeking land in Uganda to grow 'bark fibre trees' & rights to the water power of the Ripon Falls Nov 1901 Sept 1902.; Appt to permanent staff of opened line, Junior Asst Engineer 23-3-1903; Placed in charge of Nairobi water works construction Nov 1904
Red Book 1912 - C.S. Hunter - Mombasa
Red Book 1919 - Railway Dept. - District Engineer
HBEA 1912 - Asst. Engineer, Kilindini.
P.W. - a junior engineer on the railway staff - assisted Comm. B. Whitehouse in the survey of the British portion of Lake Victoria - 1899