Curtis - (Paddy Schofield) - as a DO arrived in Lamu with a wife and three children and an English nanny - description of life in Lamu in inter-war years

Colonial - Comsnr. of the Interior, B. Guiana 1946; Res. Comsnr. B. Sol. Is. Prot. 1950

Gazette - 13/8/1929 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Cadet, Administration - H.G. Gregory Smith

Foster - Gregory G.H. Smith - 1944-45 DC Kericho

Bwana - DC at Lodwar 1936

1950-1953 Resident Commissioner, Solomon Is.

Charles Chenevix Trench, Men Who Ruled Kenya, 1993 Most officers posted to Lama were bachelors, either on eve of retirement or youngsters in charge of their first district. A surprising choice of DO was that of Major Gregory Smith, recently married to a widower with three children. He came into the administration in 1930, older than most cadets but by no means through the back door - Black Watch, ADC to the Viceroy of India and to the governor of Southern Rhodesia. For the Gregory Smith children there were lessons in the morning, a rest in the afternoon, then a walk with lots to see and smell... He was a very capable DC and a great improver. When in Lodwar he improved it no end, replacing houses and offices constructed of termite-ridden palm trunks and thatched with cool, airy, wide-verandahed buildings, each house having a mosquito-proof sleeping cage on its roof. They were built mainly of bricks baked in kilns which he constructed. He made a swimming pool. He arranged for every officer and clerk to receive from Kapenguria a weekly box of fresh fruit and vegetables. He improved the Lodwar prison, which was constructed from the most advanced penological principles, with neither locks nor bars. By Turkana standards it was luxurious, and it had to be surrounded by barbed wire, not to keep the prisoners in, but to keep their friends and relations out. He stopped large Merille raids for some years by building a chain of five forts, each garrisoned by 15 Kenya police and 15 frontier tribal police.