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Name: MADDEN, Angus
Birth Date: 18 Jan 1876 Cloneygowden, Kings County, Ireland
Death Date: 31 Aug 1946 Honiton, Devon
First Date: 1905
Profession: Superintendent of Police EAP
Area: Nairobi, Mombasa, 1925 Machakos
Married: Dolores Consuela Lucia Arranz-Gomez b. 12 Dec 1905 Canary Is., d. 1995 Honiton
Children: 10, including Angus Patrick Ambrose (5 Dec 1931 Tenerife-5 Dec 1931); Noel Raymond (15 Jan 1933 Canary Is.-1982); Charles Miguel Guillermo (4 Nov 1936 Budleigh Salterton-1939); Anthony (1928); Mary (1930); Ian J.F. (7 Nov 1938)
Book Reference: Gillett, HBEA, Cuckoo, Police, KAD, Red 25, Hut, Playne, Drumkey, Red 22, EAHB 1906, North, EAHB 1907, Red Book 1912, Red 19
General Information:
Police - Appointed an Inspector in the BEA Police in 1905 (15th June) from the Royal Irish Constabulary.
Drumkey 1909 - Police - Inspector
EAHB 1907 - Appointed Royal Irish Constabulary Oct 15 1894; served in Counties Tipperary, Kerry and Wicklow; attached R.I. Constabulary Reserve March 21 1902; H.M.'s Civil Service Nov 6 1901; Inspector, Weights & Measures (Board of Trade) Aug 26 1902; Inspector of Police, EA Protectorate June 15 1905
Red Book 1912 - A. Madden - Nairobi
Red Book 1912 - Police Dept. - Inspector
Red Book 1919 - Police Dept. - Inspector
HBEA 1912 - Inspector, Nairobi.
Cuckoo - 1905 Inspector of Police, Mombasa - from the Royal Irish Constabulary. 1906 - Inspector Nbi.
KAD 1922 - Inspector of Police, Nairobi
Michael S. Silvestri: Angus Madden (RIC Service Number 56708) was appointed to the RIC on 15 Oct. 1894. He served in Tipperary (North Riding), Kerry, the Reserve at the RIC depot in Dublin, Wicklow, and the Reserve, where he was stationed when he accepted the appointment in the EAP. He was promoted to Acting Sergeant in 1902 and “obtained promotion to his rank as a result of a competitive examination conducted by the Civil Service Commissioners in literary subjects, and by a Board of Officers in police subjects.” (J.B. Dougherty, Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, to Undersecretary of State, Foreign Office 30 March 1905, CO 533/3, The National Archives.
Madden received the African General Service medal with a clasp for his participation in the 1905-6 Nandi expedition. (Directory of East Africa, Uganda, and Zanzibar (1909), 71; East African Standard, 4 April 1908). Madden was back in Ireland in 1907 on leave and attended “a short course of instruction in Drill and Police Duties” (Constabulary Gazette, 28 Sept. 1907) (Apparently the terms of Madden and Riley’s appointment in the EAP Police inadvertently gave them the same terms as gazetted officers, so they enjoyed more frequent leave than officers of their rank normally would.)
Madden’s duties brought him into contact with big game hunters. While in charge of the police station at Kericho in 1910, Madden was one of the guests at a dinner hosted by local deputy commissioner L.A.F. Jones for American sports hunter Edgar Beecher Bronson. Bronson later offered the following description: “In stalwart Angus Madden, commanding the Boma Askaris, I found a ripping Irishman with a heart his big body must have vast trouble holding and a brogue almost as rich as the wit it adorns.” (Edgar Beecher Bronson, In Closed Territory (Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1910), 176.
Madden was also an avid chess player and a member of the Nairobi Chess Club.
He seems to have never advanced in rank, though from what I can tell he was a well-regarded officer and popular among the European community.
When he arrived at Liverpool (from West Africa) on 4 Aug. 1931 aboard the Accra, Madden was accompanied by his wife Dolores and his three children, Anthony Angus (3), Mary Catherine (1), and Angus Patrick (1). He gave his address as c/o F. (Francis) Shiel, Rathkeale, Limerick, Ireland. Shiel was a railway station master, according to the 1926 Irish Census. I’m not sure of his connection to Madden. Just a few months later, the family traveled to Argentina. According to the 1939 Register, just after the beginning of the Second World War, Madden was living with his wife and family at 38 Greenway, Budleigh, Devon. He was listed as a “Police Inspector Retired Invalided.” Madden died in 1946.
Madden received the African General Service medal with a clasp for his participation in the 1905-6 Nandi expedition. (Directory of East Africa, Uganda, and Zanzibar (1909), 71; East African Standard, 4 April 1908). Madden was back in Ireland in 1907 on leave and attended “a short course of instruction in Drill and Police Duties” (Constabulary Gazette, 28 Sept. 1907) (Apparently the terms of Madden and Riley’s appointment in the EAP Police inadvertently gave them the same terms as gazetted officers, so they enjoyed more frequent leave than officers of their rank normally would.)
Madden’s duties brought him into contact with big game hunters. While in charge of the police station at Kericho in 1910, Madden was one of the guests at a dinner hosted by local deputy commissioner L.A.F. Jones for American sports hunter Edgar Beecher Bronson. Bronson later offered the following description: “In stalwart Angus Madden, commanding the Boma Askaris, I found a ripping Irishman with a heart his big body must have vast trouble holding and a brogue almost as rich as the wit it adorns.” (Edgar Beecher Bronson, In Closed Territory (Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1910), 176.
Madden was also an avid chess player and a member of the Nairobi Chess Club.
He seems to have never advanced in rank, though from what I can tell he was a well-regarded officer and popular among the European community.
When he arrived at Liverpool (from West Africa) on 4 Aug. 1931 aboard the Accra, Madden was accompanied by his wife Dolores and his three children, Anthony Angus (3), Mary Catherine (1), and Angus Patrick (1). He gave his address as c/o F. (Francis) Shiel, Rathkeale, Limerick, Ireland. Shiel was a railway station master, according to the 1926 Irish Census. I’m not sure of his connection to Madden. Just a few months later, the family traveled to Argentina. According to the 1939 Register, just after the beginning of the Second World War, Madden was living with his wife and family at 38 Greenway, Budleigh, Devon. He was listed as a “Police Inspector Retired Invalided.” Madden died in 1946.