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Name: HOWES, Richard John Clyde 'Jack' MBE

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Birth Date: 4 Apr 1906 Southsea

Death Date: 12 July 1960 Hawkhurst, Kent

First Date: 1929

Last Date: 1953

Profession: Appointed Administrative Cadet 1929, Private Secretary to the Governor Sir Robert Brooke-Popham in 1939. Secretary for Health, Lands and Local Government in 1953; Cadet Offr. Cl. I Hong Kong 1953; Deputy Colonial Secretary 1955

Area: Nairobi, 1930 Machakos, 1934 Moyale

Married: In Nairobi 15 Mar 1940 Rosemary Barbara Jamieson b. 8 Nov 1912 Bromley, d. 17 Dec 2006 N. Ireland

Children: Jennifer Caroline Jamieson (5 Feb 1941 Nairobi-7 Dec 2022 Enniskillen) (1941); Jonathan Alexander (b. and d.1943 Kabete); Prudence (11 Feb 1945 Salisbury, Wilts.-2013)

Book Reference: Juliet Reynolds, Staff 39, Staff 53, Red 31, Hut, Colonial

War Service: Military service 1941-42; Hon. Capt.

School: King Edward VII School, Lytham and Jesus College Cambridge; BA (Cantab)

General Information:

 
MBE 1939
Was in the Colonial Administrative service in Kenya until 1953, as DC at different stations, as Private Secretary to two Governors, and a Secretary to the Minister for Health, Lands and Local Government. He then transferred to the Hong Kong Secretariat, in which he served first as establishment officer and then as Deputy Colonial Secretary. In 1956 he retired from the administrative service, but was sent by the Colonial Office on special missions to British Honduras in 1956, Mauritius in 1957 and British Somaliland in 1958. He then settled at Hawkhurst, Kent where he died.
Gazette - 13 Aug 1929 Arrived on 1st Appointment - Cadet, Administration - R.J.C. Howes
Gazette 24 Apr 1945 Secretary to High Commissioner for Transport, KUR&H appointment
FindaGrave Johnathan [sic] Alexander Jamieson Howes BIRTH 1943 DEATH 1943 (aged less–than 1 year) BURIAL St Mary's Church, Kabete Kabete, Nairobi, Kenya. Inscription: J.A.J.H. / 1943
1956 appointment to British Honduras, and also was briefly in Hongkong
Publications Physical and regional geography, Mauritius and her neighbours, by S. Maudho. ... the salaries of senior officers of the Mauritius civil service, by R. J. C. Howes.
War, Contests and Conflicts: A Brief Collapse of an Imperial Frontier, 1939–1942 In: Nomads in the Shadows of Empires Author: Gufu Oba Type: Chapter Pages: 209–230
 

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