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Name: COWPER-COLES, Commerell Markham
Birth Date: 17.9.1869 Wandsworth, London
Death Date: 21.7.1903 Kamagambo, Kisumu, sleeping sickness
Nationality: British
First Date: 1902
Profession: Senior Prospector to the EA Syndicate
Area: Kisumu
Book Reference: Gillett, North, Nicholls, Gazette
General Information:
North - sometimes known as 'Couper Comeril Coles'
Nicholls - Commerell Cowper-Coles, senior prospector for the East Africa Syndicate, died of blackwater fever. …
North - arr. Mombasa from SA on prospecting expedition led by F.R. Burnham, May 1902; at Kisumu 22-11-1902
North - Mining Engineer; Kisumu 22/11/1902
Gazette - 1-9-1903 - Probate and Administration - Commerell Cowper Coles late of Kamagambo, deceased who died at Kamagambo (Kisumu) on the 21st day of July 1903
C.A. Wiggins, 'Early Days in British East Africa and Uganda', Bodleian Library Mss. 740.12.r.44 He was brought into Kisumu on a stretcher one evening from his camp up in the Maragoli. He was unconscious on arrival and never regained consciousness. |He died of blackwater fever. He was one of the BEA Syndicate, led by Major Burnham and had been in and out of Kisumu for several months.