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Name: SANDYS, James Stuart MA
Nee: 4th son of Rev Timothy Sandys, CMS; brother of Sir John Edwin Sandys
Birth Date: 10.4.1857 Calcutta
Death Date: 31.8.1889 murdered, buried at Shela, Lamu
First Date: 1889
Last Date: 1889
Profession: Civil engineer
Area: Lamu
Book Reference: North, Kiewiet, F. McCartney, Henry Wright
School: Harrow and St. John's College, Cambridge
General Information:
Kiewiet - 1888 - British Company Agents - Pigott and Sandys - making treaties like mad around Witu!
North - Civil Engineer; arr. Zanzibar from Europe on private expedition to EA c. June 1888; appt. British Consular Agent Lamu, unpaid position but to keep 75% of duty collected 28/1/1889; Local appt. as IBEA Co. Agent Lamu 3/3/1889; at Lamu 22/6/1889; died 31/8/1889 off Lamu, on board 'ss Mecca' (BI) aged 32.
Fergus McC - buried at Shela, Lamu aged 32
Cambridge Univ Alumni Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, Aug. 25, 1876. S. of the Rev. Timothy, Church Missionary Soc. (and Emily Guthrie). B. Apr. 10, 1857, in Calcutta. Bapt. May 17, 1857. School, Harrow. Matric. Michs. 1876; Scholar; B.A. 1880; M.A. 1883. Assistant Master at Lancaster School, 1881-6. Entered the service of the British East Africa Co.; Agent and Vice-Consul. Died of fever in East Africa, Aug. 31, 1889.
IBEA Co. - Appt. IBEA Co. Agent, Lamu 3/3/1889; d. 31/8/1889 off Lamu on board s.s. Mecca.
Gazette - 7/6/1927 - Buried in graveyard at Shela - J S Sandys MA, His Majesty's Consular Agent 1889; he was murdered by an Arab
Shela cemetery, Lamu in / loving memory / of / J Stuart Sandys M.A. / H.M. Consular Agent and / Representative of the / Imperial British East African Company / at Lamu / died 31st August 1889 / aged 32 / faithful in that which is least