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Name: LEWIS, Jack Haydon 'Taxi' CMG, OBE
Birth Date: 18 Oct 1904 Molepolele, Bechuanaland Protectorate
Death Date: 14 Sep 1971 Colchester
First Date: 1931
Profession: Appointed as a DO in 1931. Commissioner of Prisons, Kenya - 1952. Admin Cadet, Kenya 1931, DO 1933, Senior DC 1951.
Area: Nairobi
Married: 1. In Westminster 31 Mar 1931 Mary Christina Chandos Pole b. June 1903 Kirk Langley, Derbyshire, d. 1931 Radbourne; 2. 1935 Doris Gwendoline Turner née Edwards b. 10 May 1900 Liverpool, d. 1979 Peterbotough (widow of Arthur Turner 1886-1932)
Book Reference: Staff 39, Who's Who, Staff 53, Reece, Colonial, O&C, Jerry Rilling, Foster
School: Plumtree School, Rhodes Univ. SA and Fitzwilliam House, Cambridge 1928-31; BA (Cantab)
General Information:
Commissioner of Prisons - 7 Apr 1952 - On leave 10 Mar 1960, Retired 23 Apr 1961
Rilling - Administration Cadet 16/7/1931; District Commissioner 2/4/1948; Commissioner of Prisons 1952-61
1939 England and Wales Register living in Bexley with mother and Roy W.E. Lewis (his bro.) b. 19 Aug 1915, as District Officer, on leave
Terence Gavaghan, Of Lions and Dungbeetles, 1999 He was Commissioner of Prisons in 1957. His mild temperament and health weakened by facial surgery rendered him unsuited to the rough and tumble of mass detention, which had fallen to his lot after he had been transferred from the provincial administration to enjoy a stable career up to retirement.