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Name: COOPER, Philip Ward OBE
Nee: bro of Archibald Samuel and Henry Douglas Cooper
Birth Date: 8 Mar 1877 Marlborough, Wilts
Death Date: 25 Dec 1928 Maidstone, pneumonia
Nationality: British
First Date: 1900 (Oct)
Last Date: 1928
Profession: Appointed to the Admin. Service, Uganda, PC Buganda. Awarded OBE for services in WW1, particularly in Buganda Province. Buganda gave him the name 'Kitawa ow' Amagina' - The Father of Truth. Long farewell letter from Kabaka.
Area: Uganda - retired 1928. EAHB 1905 - Asst. Collector, Entebbe
Married: 1. In Hampton Hill, Middlesex 10 Nov 1906 Katherine Foster b. 24 Dec 1877 Marylebone, d. Kampala 12 Mar 1917; 2. In Addiscombe, Surrey 13 Mar 1924 Hester May Dickinson b. 27 May 1898 Oudtshoorn. Cape Colony, d. 1971 Islington
Children: Phyllis Katherine (Mottram) (3 Dec 1911 Mengo-27 Apr 1989 Wilton, Salisbury); Dorothy Margaret (Webb) (20 Apr 1914 Fort Portal-13 June 1975 St Albans); Charles Foster (6 Mar 1917 Namirembe-27 Sep 1990 Broad Chalke, Salisbury); Barbara Joan (Burbridge) (6 Mar 1917 Namirembe-16 Feb 2012 Chalfont St Peter)
Book Reference: Gillett, EAHB 1905, EAS, North, EA Diary, Drumkey, Red 22, EAHB 1906, Harmony, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907, Barnes, Richardson
School: Marlborough College
General Information:
Buganda gave him the name 'Kitawa ow' Amagina' - The Father of Truth. Long farewell letter from Kabaka.
Letter from Kabaka recalling his work in Sesse Islands. Sleeping sickness had ravaged the islands and he played a prominent part in removing the people until medical assistance was obtained. Uganda Herald of Fri. Jan. 4th 1929 said, on his retirement "During his long service of close on 28 years he had been in charge of all the Provinces in the Protectorate as their PC which, we believe, is a record"
EAHB 1905 - Assistant Auditor, EAP, Oct. 9th 1900; detached for duty in Uganda
The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa
EAHB 1906 - Assistant Collector, Uganda Protectorate April 1st 1902; Collector April 1st 1905
Member of Lodge Harmony - Initiated 16/10/08, age 31, District Commissioner, Entebbe
North - Detached Audit Office with the Colonial Audit Branch of the Exchequer & Audit Dept appt. to temporary duty at Mombasa - 'looking at areas in the East Africa Protectorate Accounts' (FO 2) 9-10-1900; arr Mombasa 31-10-1900; appt. Comptroller & Auditor General for Somali Coast & Uganda to be resident at Mombasa 1-4-1901; appt. Asst. Collector UP 14-12-1903; Assumed duties as Acting Sub-Commissioner Western Province 5-1-1904; Asst. Collector Wadelai Oct 1904; Transferred from Wadelai to Gondokoro 21-2-1905; promoted to Collector 1-4-1905
St Paul's Namirembe cemetery - Katharine the beloved wife of Philip Ward Cooper, died 1917
Gazette - 27/8/1929 - Probate and Administration - Philip Ward Cooper who died at Maidstone, England on 25 December 1928. Applied for by Henry Douglas Cooper of Kirawa Farm, Nairobi
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