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Name: RIVERS-SMITH, Stanley MA, CBE

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Birth Date: 9.10.1877 Royston, Herts

Death Date: 13.10.1965 Haslemere, Surrey

First Date: 1907

Profession: Director of Education Zanzibar 1907. An excellent Swahili scholar. First editor of Zanzibar Gazette. Sec. of Zanzibar Rifle Club & Committee member of Sports Club. Particularly interested in cricket

Area: Zanzibar, Tanganyika. Retired to live in Byfleet, Surrey

Married: 1908 Jessie Marguerite Ludlow b. 1880

Book Reference: Gillett, Debrett, Red 25, Red 22

War Service: Served with KAR from 1914-18

School: St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate and St. Catherine's College, Cambridge

General Information:

Debrett - was Director of Education, Zanzibar 1907-20, and Tanganyika Territory 1920-31; has Orders of Aliyah and Brilliant Star of Zanzibar
Red 25 - Director of Education, Tanganyika Territory; entered Egyptian Civil Service 1905; Director of Education, Zanzibar 1907; seconded for military service, KAR, 1916

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