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Name: FITZGERALD, William Walter Augustine
Birth Date: 24.11.1852 Worthing
Death Date: 29.4.1936 Weston super Mare
Nationality: British
First Date: 1891
Last Date: 1893
Profession: 1892 working for the IBEA Company on construction of the light railway from Mombasa
Area: Malindi
Married: In Chelsea 19 Apr 1881 Lady Clara Emma Whitaker b. 1855, d. 1921 Ennis
Author: 'Travels in the Coastlands of British East Africa' 1898
Book Reference: Permanent Way, EAHB 1905, North, IBEA, EAHB 1906, EAHB 1904
General Information:
North - Specialist in tropical agriculture; based at Magarini Plantation, near Malindi, travelled extensively; arr. Zanzibar from Mombasa, 16/3/1892 to report on cultivation in Zanzibar, returned to Malindi 10/4/1892; Exploration in Port Dunford area; engaged by Zanzibar Govt. to carry out agricultural experiments 17/3/1893; dep. for England 18/7/1893, ill
North - Company appt. dated 6-6-1891
EAHB 1905 - IBEA Co. General Africa Staff - appointed 6th June 1891
PO Directory 1905 living in Ashley Gardens, London, with Lady Clara