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Name: CRAWFORD, Frederick KCMG, OBE, Sir
Birth Date: 9 Mar 1906 Norham-on-Tweed, Northumberland
Death Date: 27 May 1978 Geneva
First Date: 1929
Profession: Colonial Civil Service. Cadet Tanganyika 1929, ADO 1931, DO 1941, Sec EA Governors' Conference 1942-43 and 45-46, Econ. Sec. N. Rhodesia 1947, Dir. of Devel. 1948-50 Governor and C in C Seychelles 1951-53, Dep. Governor Kenya 1953
Area: Tanganyika, Nairobi
Married: 1936 Mamie Alice Green b. 1908, d. 11 Sept 1959 Entebbe
Children: Francis (1937); Robin (1941)
Book Reference: Who's Who, Debrett, Colonial, O&C, Rhodesia, Barnes
School: Hymer's College and Balliol College Oxford 1925-29
General Information:
Colonial - Governor and C-in-C Uganda 1957-61
Rhodesia - Governor of Uganda since 1956, joined the Colonial Service in Tanganyika in 1929 after leaving Balliol College, Oxford. In 1942 he was seconded to the East African Governors' Conference and for the latter part of the war had executive charge of economic warfare matters in East Africa as chairman of the War Supplies Board and the Production and Supply Council and Director of Imports and Disposals. He went to Northern Rhodesia in 1947 as Economic Secretary, and was later Director of Development. He was Governor of Seychelles, 1951-53, and Deputy Governor of Kenya 1953-56.
Entebbe European cemetery - Mamie Alice, dearly beloved wife of Frederick Crawford, GCMG, OBE, and mother of Francis and Robin, who died at Government House Entebbe, 11th September 1959, aged 53