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Name: BOAZMAN, Henry MBE, FRGS
Birth Date: 9.9.1878 Barnard Castle, Co. Durham
Death Date: 3.4.1958 Kampala
First Date: 1903
Last Date: 1958
Profession: Surveyor
Area: Uganda
Married: In Kampala 1916 Olivia Flora Farrell b. 1889 Johannesburg, d. 29 Sep 1949 [?18 July 1952) at Mbuya Hill near Kampala. Went to Uganda early in 1914 as nurse and carried on after war
Children: Rosemary Anne (1926)
Book Reference: Gillett, EAHB 1905, Hut, North, EA & Rhodesia, Drumkey, Red 22, EA & Rhodesia, EAHB 1906, UJ, EAHB 1907, Masonic, LG, Red 19
War Service: EA Transport Corps
General Information:
Initially an Asst. Surveyor, Uganda Protectorate, he later started his own business and became a very prosperous and influential business director in Uganda. For a number of years he was the Masonic District Grand Master of EA.
Mrs Boazman joined the Nursing Staff at Mengo Hospital as a VAD at the outbreak of WW1 and dealt with casualties from the EA campaign. Even after her marriage she continued her work with the hospital, and after the Armistice she took up Child Welfare work.
Hut has Mrs F. Boazman 1919 Lumbwa
North - From Penrith, Cumberland
EA & Rhodesia - 17/4/58 - Mr Harry Boazman, MBE, who has died in Kampala at the age of 80, had lived for many years in Uganda, where he had practised as a surveyor, with a large connexion among Africans. He had been District Grand Master of English Freemasonry in East Africa for some years, and in that capacity had travelled widely throughout the territories.
Uganda Journal - Vol 22, p. 186 - Group photograph of Uganda officials November 1907.
Masonic - Mau Forest Lodge, Kericho, consecrated 8 Sep 1961 by R.W.Bro. H. Boazman MBE, PDGM and Lodge of Nairobi, consecrated 3 Dec 1952 and Mwanza Lodge, consecrated 29 Mar 1957 and Hibernia Lodge, Nairobi consecrated 26 Feb 1951 Masonic - District Grand Lodge of East Africa - District Grand Master - 1949-57
Masonic - District Grand Lodge of East Africa - Deputy District Grand Master - 1943-49 London
Gazette - 18 Nov 1918 - MBE for distinguished service in connection with military operations in East Africa - Captain Henry Boazman, EA Carrier Corps
Red Book 1919 - Mrs F. Boazman - Lumbwa
Gazette 28 Apr 1953 probate