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Name: JOHNSON, Eric Townsend BA
Nee: son of Peter Johnson
Birth Date: 13 Nov 1875 Salford, Lancs.
Death Date: 17 June 1942 Little Stretton, Shropshire
First Date: 1915
Profession: Magistrate.
Area: Mombasa
Married: In Steyning 1904 Ruby Violet Yates b. 4 Mar 1880 Sydney, Australia, d. 24 Aug 1964 Lymington, Hants.
Children: Alan Yates (4 Feb 1904 Timperley, Cheshire-2000); Nora Townsend (12 July 1909 Timperley-1987)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Red 22, Gazette, CO, Dominion, Alumni, Red 19
School: Sedburgh
General Information:
Gazette - 25/8/15 - appt. Resident Magistrate, Lamu - arrived Mombasa 14/8/15
CO 533/371/3 - Confidential Reports 1927 - OAG considers him lacking in decision and well balanced judgement and not sufficiently intelligent to be a judge.
Dominion - Resident Magistrate 1930
Alumni - In business until 1898; Called to the Bar, Inner Temple 1902. On the Northern Circuit. Resident Magistrate in Kenya 1915-29; Acting Judge, Kenya 1915-29 and at other times. Puisne Judge, HBM Court at Zanzibar 1929034. Judge High Court Nyasaland 1934-7. Retired 1937 and resided latterly at Ragleth House, Little Stretton, Shropshire where he died June 17 1942
Red Book 1919 - Magistrate - E.T. Johnson
KAD 1922 - District and Resident Commissioner and Resident Magistrate, Barrister at Law (Middle Temple), Mombasa.
Red 25 has E.V. Johnson, Vice-Commodore, Mombasa Yacht Club.