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Name: McKEAG, Victor Malcolm (Capt.)
Birth Date: 25 Mar 1897 Dublin
Nationality: Irish
First Date: 1920
Profession: Appointed a DC in 1920
Area: 1922 Kacheliba, 1930 Nairobi, 1931-32 Kisumu
Married: 1930 Kathleen Dorothy Vicars b. 4 July 1901, d. 1987 Taunton Deane, Somerset, buried at North Petherton, Somerset
Children: Sally (26 Dec 1934 Mombasa); Moyra Kathleen (Pollard) (1936 Aldershot-2014); Hugh (1938)
Book Reference: Staff 39, Irish, Tignor, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Colonial, Red 22, Dominion, Witchmen, Gazette
War Service: Prince of Wales's Leinster
General Information:
Dominion - District Officer - 1930
Witchmen - Mckeag's background was military, including several years' service in the KAR. He had neither Lambert's linguistic talent nor his anthropological inclination. He did, however, take a lively interest in the peoples he was asked to rule and spent much time studying their traditional institutions. McKeag thus found himself thoroughly caught up in the spirit of Lambert's earlier research and eager to carry out the latter's goals. ……….. [more]
Gazette 7/7/1920 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Asst. District Commissioner - 26/6/1920
Tignor - DC Kajiado in 1927.
KAD 1922 - Administration Cadet, Kacheliba.
Colonial - Ag. Sec. Secretariat 1927
Winner of the first Irish Society Golf Tournament at Royal Nairobi GC in 1936.
DC Meru 1937-39, 1943-5
1939 England and Wales Register living with wife in Bath
Was in Canada before he went to Kenya
President, Mombasa Club 1944, 1947