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Name: FITZGIBBON, Henry Elliot
Birth Date: 22 Aug 1889 Dublin
Death Date: 29 Sep 1971 Surrey
First Date: 1928
Last Date: 1933
Profession: Secretariat. Municipal engineer
Area: Nairobi
Married: 1. In Cairo 15 Apr 1921 Marion Kathleen Wordsworth Jameson b. 28 Nov 1894 Hull, d. 28 Oct 1943 Ashtead; 2. In Surrey 1948 Dorothy Isabel Francesca Devenish b. 16 Jan 1909 Maldon, Essex, d. 21 May 1999 Ashtead
Children: 1. Jeremy Elliott (22 Mar 1926 Farnham-2011 Gwynedd, Wales)); Michael Elliott (11 Nov 1927 Farnham-25 Feb 1988 Warwickshire); dau.
Book Reference: Red 31, Dominion, Nicholls
General Information:
Dominion - Municipal and Town Planning Engineer 1927-33 - H.E. Fitzgibbon
1933-1935 Inspector and Senior Inspector Housing and Planning, and Regional Planning Controller Ministry of Health, Planning, Housing and Local Government
Nicholls - Feetham's report on local government finally appeared in 1929 and its recommendations were put into effect the same year. H.T. Martin, the Municipal Engineer of Nairobi so despised as a town planner by his subordinate Henry Elliot Fitzgibbon, left Kenya and things began to improve.
Gazette - 6/8/1928 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Municipal Engineer - H.E. Fitzgibbon
Gazette - 20/6/1933 - Departed on leave pending termination of appointment - H.E. Fitzgibbon
Papers of Henry Elliot Fitzgibbon Bodleian Library Mss Afr.s.1231 Martin refused to meet Fitzgibbon - 'destructive designs which Mr Martin appears to entertain against me and my work'.My annual report for 1929 was suppressed by him. Martin tried to transfer me secretly to the Survey Dept. Martin refused to put me on a permanent and pensionable basis after my last tour of service. I appealed to the Secretary of State. Government threatened to suppress my post. Martin prepared the Town Planning Scheme for Mombasa which would cost £300,000, and this would exhaust the municipal credit of Mombasa and there is no need for it. Martin is responsible for inexpert town planning adventures in Mombasa and Nairobi.