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Name: STEWART, William CBE 'Bill'

Birth Date: 1880

Death Date: 10 May 1958 Aberfoyle, Perthshire

First Date: 1912

Profession: Standard Bank manager

Area: Mombasa, 1922 Dar es Salaam

Married: 1930 Elizabeth Marion Macdonald

Book Reference: HBEA, EA & Rhodesia, Debrett, Red 22, SS, Red Book 1912, Gazette

War Service: European War 1914-18 as Major King's African Rifles (despatches twice)

School: Morrison's Academy, Crieff

General Information:

EA & Rhodesia - 22/5/58 - Mr William (Bill) Stewart, CBE, who has died suddenly at his home in Scotland at the age of 77, was manager of the Dar es Salaam branch of The Standard Bank of South Africa from 1920 until his retirement in the latter part of 1937. He was for some years a non-official member of the Legislative Council, and one of the two representatives of the general community of Tanganyika who were selected to attend the coronation of King George VI. He had served in the Standard Bank branch in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, from 1907 until 1910, when he was one of the four pioneers sent to Mombasa to open the bank's frist branch in East Africa. Throughout the 1914-18 war he served in the King's African Rifles
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Capt. W. Stewart, c/o Standard Bank of SA, Nairobi - Farm 1005
Red Book 1912 - W. Stewart - Mombasa
Gazette - 11 May 1937 - CBE - William Stewart, Esq. - For public services in the Tanganyika Territory

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