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Name: BOWRING, Walter Andrew
Nee: son of John Bowring, Forest Farm, Windsor, bro of Charles Calvert Bowring
Birth Date: 30.11.1875 Hastings
Death Date: 3.11.1950 London
Nationality: British
First Date: 1899
Profession: Appointed Asst. Auditor, EA Protectorate & Uganda Railway Feb. 3rd 1899, and later transferred to the Uganda Audit Dept. in 1902.
Area: Entebbe, Uganda
Married: In Tisbury, Wilts. 3 Nov 1909 Nita Maud Howey b. 25.11.1887 Carlisle, d. 31 Oct 1966 Tangiers
Children: Joan; Andrew John Presgrave (21 Mar 1912-1987)
Book Reference: Gillett, EAHB 1905, EAS, North, EA & Rhodesia, EA Diary, Drumkey, EAHB 1906, UJ, Eton, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907
School: Eton
General Information:
EAHB 1905 - Officer of IBEA Co. who served in EA as Assistant Auditor
The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa
North - Detached Audit Officer with the Colonial Audit Branch of the Exchequer & Audit Dept.; Appt. Asst. Auditor, EAP, 13-2-1899; Appt. Local Auditor UP to replace J.H. Sinclair April/May 1899, arr. Uganda May/June 1899; In Uganda 15-12-1899; Arr. Mombasa 4-6-1900 from Uganda after acting as Local Auditor in absence of H.R. Phelips; Dep. for Kismayu 11-6-1900; Acting Local Auditor at Mombasa 17-6-1901; In Audit Office at Entebbe from 26-12-1901; Appt. Local Auditor UP 31-5-1902; Local Auditor UP, Entebbe, Dec 1903.
East Africa & Rhodesia - 23/11/50 - Mr W.A. Bowring, who has died in London at the age of 74, went to East Africa in 1899 as assistant auditor to the Uganda Railway. In 1902 he became auditor of Uganda, a post he held until 1909, when he was appointed treasurer of Cyprus.
Uganda Journal - Vol 22, p. 186 - Group photograph of Uganda officials November 1907.
EAHB 1905 - Local Auditor, Entebbe May 31st 1902