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Name: BROWN, Archibald
Death Date: Aug/Sept 1906 on ship en route to Mombasa, of a stroke, buried at Suakin, Red Sea
Nationality: British
First Date: 1890
Last Date: 1905
Profession: Trader and Transport Officer, Uganda. Took up appointment as Cashier of IBEA Co. at Mombasa on 14 May 1890
Area: Mombasa, Port Victoria, Kikuyu, Mumias, Port Ugowe Uganda
Book Reference: Gillett, Matson, EAHB 1905, EAS, Hut, North, EA Diary, IBEA, EAHB 1906, EAHB 1904
General Information:
Matson - Agent for Smith, Mackenzie & Co. - contractors for the transport of goods from Ravine to the Lake and Mombasa to Nzoi (intermediate section being operated by the EAP)
The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa
North - Trader/Smith, Mackenzie & Co./UP - IBEA Co. Cashier at Mombasa; Left Co. to become independent trader; Zanzibar Feb/Mar 1894 working for Smith, Mackenzie & Co.; Mombasa 14/5/1894; arr. Fort Smith 3/4/1895; Port Victoria July 1895; To manage Mombasa branch of Smith, Mackenzie June 1897; Joined UP as Transport Officer 12/4/1898; In charge of section of Uganda Road from Mtito Andei to Masongaleni at 13/6/1898; Mumia's 26/9/1898; Moved to Kikuyu Aug 1898; Transport Officer at Port Ugowe Nov 1900; Moved to Nile District Dec 1901; Leave extended on medical certificate, chronic gout, Nov 1903; Fit to return to EA '….. to be exceedingly temperate in his mode of living', due to retuirn to Uganda, Jan 1904.
IBEA Co. - Nominal List of British Born Subjects resident in IBEA Territories within the Sultans Domain, 30 April 1891 - Archibald Brown, England, Cashier Mombasa
IBEA - General Africa Staff - Appointed 14th May 1890 North - Dep. Naples for EA and arrives Mombasa 28-2-1904; to be invalided home 'should not return to Africa' dep. Entebbe for coast 13-1-1905; arr London 14-2-1905; end of appt.
Matson - Agent for Smith, Mackenzie & Co. EAHB 1905 - Transport Officer, Uganda Protectorate, April 12th 1898