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Name: SWAYNE, Harold George Carless (Lieut. RE)
Nee: brother of Eric John Eagles Swayne
Birth Date: 14.2.1860 St Helier, Jersey
Death Date: 14.4.1940 Guernsey
First Date: 1888
Profession: Royal Engineers
Married: 1. In Westminster 10 Feb 1894 Katherine Aimee Holmes b. 1862 British Guiana, d. 2 Jan 1905 Aden; 2. In Kensington 1907 his cousin Amy Christina Swayne b. 1869 Mathern, Worcs., d. 1936 Hertfordshire
Children: Helen May (Winder) (1895 Chatham-1985 Wadhurst)
Author: 'Early Days in Somaliland & Other Tales' 1896; Seventeen Trips through Somaliland, 1903
Book Reference: EAHB 1905, North, Kiewiet, IBEA, Kingsley-Heath, EAHB 1906, EAHB 1904, Chandler, Wikipedia
General Information:
Kiewiet - 1888 - First Company Caravan led by Lieut. Swayne RE. ……. Swayne found to be unsuitable so Frederick Jackson given the post while Swayne remained at the coast to survey the first few miles of railway route.
Kingsley-Heath - Famous Somaliland and southern Ethiopia explorer and hunter. Gave his name to hartebeest he discovered in Somaliland and southern Ethiopia. Author of 'Seventeen Trips in Somaliland'.
EAHB 1906 - Lieut. H.F.C. Swayne (RE)
North - 'Lt. Swayne is wanting in originality' (G.S. Mackenzie, Mackinnon Papers); 'Big game hunting was an obsession with him and he could think and talk of nothing else' (F.J. Jackson, 1930)
EAHB 1905 has H.F.C. Swayne - IBEA Co. General Africa Staff - appointed 13th September 1888.
North - Royal Engineers; serving British Army Officer seconded to IBEA Co.
John S. Galbraith, Mackinnon and East Africa 1878-1895, 1972 He set up from Mombasa on 18 October 1888 bound for Baringo on the northeast of Lake Victoria. He was a poor choice. Frederick Jackson said he was obsessed with the thrills of big game shooting to the point of monomania. He would run about the camp with heavy guns and when tired would point it at an object about the height of an elephant's vitals and shout 'Am I steady Jackson, am I steady?' George Mackenzie removed him from the expedition and put Jackson in charge.Swayne however was not discharged and instead was sent on another expedition to the territories between the Tana and Juba rivers to conclude treaties with the chiefs in that area.