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Name: HUTCHINS, Ernest Elwyn
Nee: bro of Cedric Page Hutchins, nephew of David Ernest Hutchins
Birth Date: 7 May 1886 Broughton, Flintshire
Death Date: 24 Dec 1972 Maidenhead
First Date: 1906
Profession: Forest Dept. S. Africa 1904; Forest Demarcator Kenya 1909; Asst. Conservator Forests 1911; Asst. Political Officer GEA 1916-21; Administrative. Officer 1st Grade (now Dist. Officer) Tanganyika Territory 1921
Area: 1937 Mbogo Vale, Kerico, Tanganyika
Married: In Paris 27 Mar 1920 Mabel Jane Brown b. 13.3.1892 Edinburgh, d. 2 Dec 1969 Budleigh Salterton
Children: Archer John David (14 Mar 1922); Merle Yvonne (1940)
Book Reference: Colonial, Hut, Drumkey, Gazette, Medals, Colonial, North, Red Book 1912
War Service: EAMR 1915-16;
School: Exeter School; Forestry course Edinburgh University 1903-04
General Information:
Drumkey 1909 - Forestry Dept. - Demarcator
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Kisumu - E.E. Hutchins, Farmer, Muhoroni
Medals - East African Political Department - EAMR, No. 524, Private
Colonial 1912 - Forestry Dept. - Forest Officer
Considine - 1908 arrived in Kenya to work under his uncle, D.E. Hutchins (for sketch of D.E. Hutchins' career, see EAS 22 April 1911, p.10) - His first assignment was to demarcate boundary between forest land and the Kikuyu Reserve from Limuru to Nyeri. 1910 Appointed Asst. Conservator of Forests and posted to Londiani 1912 resigned from Forest Department and went into partnership with Denis Finch-Hatton and Jack Pixley in the purchase of Mbongo Vale Estate in Songhor District 1915 joined EAMR as Trooper in the Machine Gun Section 1916 joined Political Dept. of Tanganyika's Provisional Administration 1924/38 in charge of Morogoro District.
Obituary - East African Standard 4 May 1962, p.8
Retired to Budleigh Salterton in 1950s
Gazette 18 Mar 1977 - probate
Red Book 1912 - E.E. Hutchens - Kericho
1939 England and Wales Register living in Hampstead with wife and son
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