North - Appt. Asst. Collector EAP 11/11/1895; Arr. Zanzibar from Europe to be asst. Collector Rabai 28/11/1895; Member of proposed EA Volunteer Force to be Adjutant, Mombasa 9/10/1896; Asst. Collector, Malindi July 1896; Transferred from EAP to Zanzibar Mil. but retained in EAP due to staff shortages 8/4/1897; Listed as Asst. Collector, Teita 22/3/1897; At Ndi, Acting Asst. District Officer 1/4/1897; Dep. Mombasa to be Acting Asst. District Officer Taveta 22/4/1897; moved from EAP to Zanzibar as 2nd in command of Zanzibar Forces 18/10/1897; In charge of Police on Pemba 1899; Chief of Police Zanzibar 1901

Web - son of the late Sir John Goldie-Taubman. B. at Edinburgh, Dec., 1868. Seconded to serve under the Foreign Office in East Africa, 1895. Appointed second in command of His Highness the Sultan of Zanzibar's Army in 1898. Commandant of Police, Zanzibar Protectorate, 1900. Order of the Aliyeh. Order of the Hamoudieh. On returning to England in 1908, Major Taubman was appointed to the prison service where he was Governor of several prisons until 1925, when he was appointed H.M. Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales. President of the World Manx Association; President of Yn Cruinnaght; and President of the Manx Legion.

Freemason Zanzibar Lodge 1903