Gazette - 14/6/16 - Lieut. Herbert Harvey Rushton - appt. Acting Deputy Chief Accountant, Uganda Railway

Gazette - 12/11/1919 - Register of Voters - Nairobi, South Area - Herbert Harvey Rushton - Civil Servant - Whitehouse Road and Mrs Marte Mary Elisabeth Rushton - Whitehouse Road

Red Book 1919 - Railway Dept. - Asst. Chief Accountant

Gazette - 14/1/1920 -Appointment - To be Deputy Treasurer, EA Protectorate wef 3/1/1920

Gazette - 15/4/1930 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Treasurer - H.H. Rushton

EAS 24 Nov 1938 He was Treasurer of Kenya 1926 to 1933. A native of Worcester, with which he had many associations, he had returned there recently for the Cathedral Guild reunion and died about a week after his return to Bournemouth. He spent nearly 40 years in the colonial service, undertaking official missions to Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, as a result of which many colonial products entered new markets. He was responsible for a dairy farming scheme for ex-soldiers in Fiji which now exports butter in large quantities, and he also aided the introduction of the pineapple industry. He began his colonial service in Gibraltar in 1897 on the accountancy staff. In the Great War he served on the East African campaign, being made assistant chief accountant on the Uganda Railways. After the war he was promoted rapidly and in 1920 he became Deputy Treasurer of Kenya. While in this position he was engaged in the important work of carrying through the scheme for changing over from the Indian to the African coinage, being chairman of the Currency Committee. He was transferred to Fiji in 1922, remaining seven years, during which time the present king and Queen visited the capital, Suva. He also acted as colonial secretary and deputy governor. Returning to Kenya in 1929 as Treasurer, he was, during the ensuing four years chairman of the Land Bank, Agricultural Advances Board and Expenditure Advisory Committee, and on his retirement in 1933 he was made CBE. He had a sympathetic understanding of the unofficial point of view and the position and needs of settlers. Brought from his retirement in 1937, he made a year's mission to British Honduras to reorganize the colony's finances, returning in the spring of this year.

 

In Jan 1940 he was engaged to Kathleen Gladys Esme Lewis