North - Boustead Ridley & Co., Smith Mackenzie & Co./UP; arr. Zanzibar 27/9/1894; in charge of assembly of steam launch Ruwenzori for Boustead, Ridley & Co. at Mwanza on Lake Victoria c. 1896; with Smith, Mackenzie & Co. July 1897; dep. Ravine with UP troops on operation in Kamassia country 22/6/1897; appt. 3rd Class Asst. UP 20/11/1897; appt. to UP Dec 1901, to supervise Hut Tax labour building road between Mengo & Lake Albert; recommended for next 3rd Asst. vacancy, Dec 1901; Acting Collector Toru, July 1902; transferred from Fort Portal to be Acting Collector Masaka 4/3/1903; Appt. Magistrate 16/3/1903; appt. Asst. Collector 1/4/1903; transferred to be in charge of Kakumiro Station 13/7/1903; placed on "Special Duty" 29/8/1903; to be on special duty in Unyoro 21/2/1905; moved to Mbale 6/7/1905; 'A quite remarkable power of acquiring native languages' (F.J. Jackson, FO 2)

Uganda Journal - Vol. 2 No. 2 - Further Memories of Uganda by Sir Albert Cook - In the closing months of 1901 a good cart-road from Entebbe to Lake Albert was commenced. On that road enormous numbers of labourers worked doing one month in lieu of the Rs. 3/- hut tax. Mr Pordage, Mr Ormsby and Quartermaster Ramsay supervised the construction.

Uganda Journal - Vol 22, p. 186 - Group photograph of Uganda officials November 1907.

EAHB 1905 - Asst. Collector, Uganda. Temporarily engaged for Road Construction, Sept. 23rd 1901; Transport Officer, April 1st 1902; Asst. Collector, April 1st 1903.

Drumkey 1909 - Directory of Residents - O.C. Ormsby, Kiu

Bell - Was with Charles Stokes on the original Central African trail, Dar es Salaam to Ujiji. W.D.M. Bell hunted for some time under Ormsby's hospitality.

UK Foreign and Overseas Registers for date of death as 22 Jan 1909 at Mumias