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Name: SANDYS, James Stuart MA
Nee: 4th son of Rev Timothy Sandys, CMS; brother of Sir John Edwin Sandys
Birth Date: 10.4.1857 Calcutta
Death Date: 31.8.1889 murdered, buried at Shela, Lamu
First Date: 1889
Last Date: 1889
Profession: Civil engineer
Area: Lamu
Book Reference: North, Kiewiet, F. McCartney, Henry Wright
School: Harrow and St. John's College, Cambridge
General Information:
Kiewiet - 1888 - British Company Agents - Pigott and Sandys - making treaties like mad around Witu!
North - Civil Engineer; arr. Zanzibar from Europe on private expedition to EA c. June 1888; appt. British Consular Agent Lamu, unpaid position but to keep 75% of duty collected 28/1/1889; Local appt. as IBEA Co. Agent Lamu 3/3/1889; at Lamu 22/6/1889; died 31/8/1889 off Lamu, on board 'ss Mecca' (BI) aged 32.
Fergus McC - buried at Shela, Lamu aged 32
Web - Cambridge Alumni - Assistant Master at Lancaster School 1881-6; Entered the service of the British East Africa Co.; Agent and Vice-Consul; died of fever in East Africa Aug 31 1889.
IBEA Co. - Appt. IBEA Co. Agent, Lamu 3/3/1889; d. 31/8/1889 off Lamu on board s.s. Mecca.
Gazette - 7/6/1927 - Buried in graveyard at Shela - J S Sandys MA, His Majesty's Consular Agent 1889; he was murdered by an Arab
Barnes Shela cem. Lamu in / loving memory / of / J Stuart Sandys M.A. / H.M. Consular Agent and / Representative of the / Imperial British East African Company / at Lamu / died 31st August 1889 / aged 32 / faithful in that which is least