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Name: WIGGINS, Clare Aveling CMG (Rev. Dr.)
Nee: son of William Wiggins, bro of Bernard Henry Wiggins
Birth Date: 5 Dec 1876 Watlington, Oxford
Death Date: 7 July 1965 Basingstoke
Nationality: British
First Date: 1901
Last Date: 1923
Profession: Appointed Medical Officer, EAP. Transferred to Uganda Province in 1909 and was Acting PMO on several occasions. First Secretary of Nbi. Golf Club. Retired to England where he was later ordained priest.
Area: Nairobi, Malindi, Kisumu, 1922 Entebbe
Married: 9 Apr 1904 Ethel Beatrice Elliott b. 15 Mar 1880 India, d. 29 Jan 1978 Basingstoke (dau. of Charles Frederick Elliott, Commissioner of Forests)
Children: William Denison Clare (7.2.1905 Nairobi-1971); Phyllis Clare (Nairobi 10.1.1908 Nairobi-1989); Norah Clare (Nairobi 20.4.1909 Nairobi-2001); Mervyn Clare (1 Jan 1911 Entebbe-1971)
Author: Early Days in British East Africa and Uganda, 1983
Book Reference: Gillett, SE, Hobley, Roome, Debrett, EAHB 1905, EAS, North, EA Diary 1903, Drumkey, Red 22, Advertiser, EAHB 1906, Nicholls, EA Diary 1902, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907, Leader14, Beck
War Service: WW1 attached to UMS, OC Entebbe Base Hospital & Chief Censor, Uganda
School: Magdalen College School, Oxford & St Mary's Hospital London, Hon. MA Oxford 1942, MRCS, LRCP
General Information:
SE - Dr. C.A. Wiggin - Nov 1907 - Medical Officer
Hobley - at Kisumu at time of building of hospital.
Roome - after reaching the highest position in the Uganda Medical Service came out at the request of the Mission to lepers and joined the CMS staff at N'gora, Teso. He and his elder daughter have been attending one of the 6 centres and treating some 400 lepers daily.
Debrett - appointed Medical Officer, EA Protectorate 1901 and Uganda 1909, Dep. Principal Med. Off. Uganda 1911, and Principal Medical Officer 1919 (retired 1923); sometime a MEC and MLC Uganda; was Dep. Assist. Director of Med. Sers. Uganda 1914-18 with rank of Major; Founder of Ngora (now Kumi) Leper Mission 1927; V. of Pyrton with Shirburn, Oxon 1944-50
EAHB 1905 - Medical Officer, Mombasa. Medical Officer, EAP, April 4th 1901; Late Casualty Officer, St. Mary's Hospital and Medical Officer, Fulham Infirmary W.
The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa Drumkey 1909 - Medical Dept. - Medical Officer
Advertiser - 16/10/1908 - Nairobi Golf Club - Bowring Monthly Handicap - Dr. Wiggins, handicap 8
Advertiser - 12/3/1909 - Nairobi Golf Club - Bowring Monthly Comp. - C.A. Wiggins
EA Diary 1902 - Listed as Doctor
EA Diary 1903 - Casualty Officer, St. Mary's Hospital; Medical Officer, Fulham Infirmary; Medical Officer, EA Protectorate July 1901
Beck - 1903 - Governor Eliot sent Dr. C.A. Wiggins to Nairobi against the wishes of Medical Director Moffatt who wanted Wiggins in Kavirondo.
Career: Asst. MO Fulham Infirmary (1900-01); MO Kenya (1901-09); MO Uganda (1909-11); DPMO Uganda (1911-19); Active Service East Africa Campaign (1915— 17); PMO Uganda (1919—22); Missionary Church Missionary Society Uganda (1927- 31); Missionary Uganda (1938-39); took orders of the Anglican Church (1943); priest South of England (1943-62)
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