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Name: SPURRIER, Alfred Henry CMG, OBE (Dr.)
Birth Date: 1862 Colyford, Devon
Death Date: 5.7.1935 Zanzibar
First Date: 1894
Profession: Served as Medical Officer on a cableship with the Eastern Telegraph Co., was then appointed as Medical Officer to the Company's staff on shore at Zanzibar. Later General Mathews appointed him MOH, Zanzibar until he retired in 1913
Area: Zanzibar, retired to Nairobi - then back to Zanzibar
Married: Unmarried
Book Reference: Gillett, Debrett, North, Drumkey, EA Diary 1903, LG
School: Roy. Grammar Sch., Guildford, and at Gregorian Univ. Rome. Qualified as LRCP in 1887, FRGS
General Information:
After retirement soon recalled to Zanzibar to report and advise on an epidemic of cholera and, in 1914, did very effective work at Tanga and elsewhere. After the war appointed to organise and establish the Zanzibar War Memorial which took the form of a Museum and for some time he was also the editor of the Zanzibar Gazette.
Debrett - was Med. Officer, Eastern Telegraph Co.'s Ships and Res. Med. Officer at their Zanzibar Station 1891-5, Med. Officer, Zanzibar Govt. Service 1895-1905, and Med Officer of Health of Zanzibar 1905-12; received 3rd class Hamoudieh Order (for services at bombardment of Zanzibar) 1897, 2nd class Brilliant Star of Zanzibar 1907, 2nd class El Aliyeh Order 1905; has been Physician Extraor. to Sultan of Zanzibar
North - Qualified as a doctor 1887; served as Medical Officer on ETC ships; arr. Zanzibar as Med Officer for ETC staff on Zanzibar 17/10/1894; Appt. Supt. of new Govt. leper colony on Zanzibar; awarded the Order of Hamoudich, 3rd Class by Sultan of Zanzibar 20/6/1897; Med. Officer of Health, Zanzibar Prot. April 1898; placed in charge of medical services in Nairobi during outbreak of bubonic plague, March & April 1902; Listed as Health Officer, ZP Nov 1905
Drumkey - May 11 1908 - Mr A.H. Spurrier has resigned the editorship of the Zanzibar Gazette and is succeeded by Mr Rivers Smith, Director of Education.
London Gazette - 18 Nov 1918 - OBE for distinguished service in connection with the War - Alfred Henry Spurrier Esq., CMG, LRCP, Attached Sanitary Services, EA Force
Nat Probate Calendar - probate went to Sarah Jane Austin, widow [?his wife]