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Name: ADAMS, Ernest Beadon Dixon (Dr.)
Birth Date: 3 Apr 1875 Martock, Somerset
Death Date: July 1907 Yeovil. Buried 19 Aug 1907 Martock, Somerset- overdose of morphine, Yeovil, Somerset
Nationality: British
First Date: 1903
Last Date: 1906
Profession: Appointed Medical Officer EAP Nov. 1903. Later stationed at Fort Hall.
Area: EAHB - Fort Hall 1905
Book Reference: Gillett, Kenya Diary, EAHB 1905, Hut, North, EAHB 1906, Web
School: Crewkerne School, Malvern College, St. Bart's Hospital, LRCP (Lond), MRCS (England)
General Information:
Kenya Diary - Nov. 1904 - Adams is the first medical officer to reside at Fort Hall.
Kenya Diary - Feb. 1904 - Irryeni expedition - (Adams foolhardiness re lion ...... ) Adams was full of apologies and gratitude later on and gave me a silver tobacco holder. But the poor man was a drug addict and killed himself with morphia about 1906.
EAHB 1905 - Member of the Abernethian Society; Late Medical Officer, British Central African Co., Medical Officer EA Protectorate, November 24th 1903
North - has Breadon. Formerly in BCA; travelled direct from BCA to EA to take up post as MO Fort Hall arriving Mombasa Dec. 1903
geni.com says he died in Nairobi of blackwater fever 1907
Ancestry for death and burial