Gazette 4 Aug 1953 probate

Lillibullero - Wajir - 1933 - ...... J....... the DC, met us at the entrance to his house. He was tall and loose-limbed, his hair white before its time, lined and bronzed by the desert sun, a thorough-going, energetic, forthright man, he had at one time been in some business in London but, after serving through the last War, he refused to be tied again to the wheel of civilization; and so entered the Colonial Service. J....... had much to say about the ignorance and lack of imagination and furthermore, to use his energetic idiom, the lack of spunk, which he declared was invariably shown in Nairobi. The Secretariat, I remember he joyously denominated throughout as the 'Insectariat'.

Smeaton - Jennings discussed these matters at length, making me visualize the great tasks awaiting men of vision and courage. The life of a District Commissioner, unfettered by the bonds of red tape, can be wonderfully satisfying to men of his breed, men who see their endless difficulties as the outcome of a personal crusade for the salvation of one's own soul through aiding others. Britain has produced many such visionaries, men whose lives are quiet unsung sagas of devoted labour to her and her peoples. May she ever continue to breed them. I asked Jennings the origin of the old bridge I had discovered near the native village. It was, he told me, what remained of a military road built by the army during its campaign against German East Africa. Floods had destroyed the main section, leaving only the piers on the banks. It was interesting to find, even in this remote spot, evidence of our armies' operations in the first World War.

In reply to further questions Jennings told me that the gold reefs had not been discovered before now largely on account of the tsetse-fly and malaria which existed hereabouts. Gold had no meaning for the natives, and white men had been unprepared to risk disease merely to prove an unsubstantiated rumour.

Dominion - District Officer - 1930

mini-Sitrep XV - Wajir Yacht Club - The Club provided him with a measure of self-defence against the plundering of his hospitality by safari parties wishing to experience the Beau Geste magic of the remote NFD - which was mostly a closed district at the time.

Gazette 16/4/1919 - Appointed Asst. Dist. Commissioner Gosha

Tignor - DC Nyeri 1937.

KAD 1922 - Afmadu.

KAD 1922 - Asst. District and Resident Commissioner, Afmadu