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Name: BELL, Henry FitzGerald
Birth Date: 1877 Muncaster, Cumberland
Death Date: 3.7.1910 St. Jean-de-Luz, Basse Pyrenees, France
Nationality: British
First Date: 1901
Last Date: 1910
Profession: Appointed Asst. Collector EAP in 1901, and was Asst. Secretary to the Administration in 1903.
Area: Nairobi, EAHB 1905 - 2nd Asst. Sec. Mombasa (H.F.G. Bell)
Book Reference: Gillett, Golf, EAHB 1905, EAS, North, Playne, EA Diary 1903, Drumkey, Advertiser, EAHB 1906, EA Diary 1902, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907
School: Marlborough College, & University College Oxford, Honours in history 1898
General Information:
Golf - Present at the first recorded committee meeting of Nairobi, later Royal Nairobi, Golf Club in 1908 ......... During the years 1910 to 1914 and 1920 to 1922 players from EA met yearly to play on the Course of the Nairobi Golf Club for the amateur Championship of EA. The winners had their names engraved on a shield presented by brother officers and friends in honour of the late Henry Fitzgerald Bell ..…..
At one time he was Secretary of Nairobi Golf Club and Captain of Nairobi Cricket Club.
EAHB 1905 - Assistant Collector, EAP, April 29th 1901; 2nd Asst. Secretary to the Administration April 1st 1903
The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa (H.F.G. Bell)
Playne - Committee member of Nairobi Golf Club, Hon. Secretary [Playne has H.F.G. Bell]
Drumkey 1909 - Printing Dept. - Editor of "Official Gazette" - H.F.G. Bell
Drumkey 1909 - Captain, Nairobi Golf Club - H.F.J. Bell
Advertiser - 16/10/1908 - Nairobi Golf Club - Bowring Monthly Handicap - H.F.G. Bell, handicap 6
Advertiser - 27/11/08 - Nakuru Agricultural Show - donation from - H.F.G. Bell
North - Editor of the official 'Handbook for East Africa, Uganda & Zanzibar, 1905'
EA Diary 1902 - On the Committee for producing the diary - H.F.G. Bell - Hon. Sec.
EA Diary 1902 - Listed as Assistant District Officer
EA Diary 1903 - Assistant Collector April 1901; Acting Registrar Oct 1901 to Feb 1902
Gazette 15/7/1910 - Obituary - His Excellency deeply regrets to announce the death at St. Jean-de-Luz, Basses Pyrenees on the 3rd inst. of Mr H.F.G. Bell, 1st Assistant Secretary to the Administration. Mr Bell joined the Protectorate service in 1st July 1901 and was attached to the Secretariat throughout his career. He always showed great ability in his Official work and his place will be hard to fill. In social life and in the world of sport he was universally and deservedly popular and his loss will be mourned by a host of friends.
EAHB 1906 - H.F.G. Bell, Mombasa