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Name: HOPE, John Owen Webley 'Hopo' CMG
Nee: son of Rear Admiral Charles Webley Hope
Birth Date: 1875 Stoke Damerel, Devon
Death Date: 15.9.1927 Bramshott, Hampshire
Nationality: British
First Date: 1899
Profession: DC in 1901, later PC, Jubaland Province
Area: 1903 Dagoretti; HBEA 1912 - DC Marsabit, Nyeri, Kiambu, PC Jubaland
Author: Further Bookref: EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907, Leader14, Chandler, Red Book 1912, Red 19
Book Reference: Gillett, SE, HBEA, Cuckoo, Permanent Way, Women 1/95, Golf, Police, Kill, Borderland, Lillibullero, White Man, EAHB 1905, KAD, Red 25, EAS, Hut, North, EA Diary 1903, Drumkey, Red 22, Advertiser, EAHB 1906, Burke, Nicholls, Medals, EA Diary 1902
General Information:
SE - John O.W. Hope - Jan 1908
Cuckoo - "Johnny" Hope - or more popularly known as "Hopo" - had spent many years in BEA, being an official who won great popularity among all classes of the community. He was liked and trusted by all, and the ideal man to administer a European settler region. He did not suffer from a superiority complex.
Permanent Way - was instructed to demarcate a line through southern Kikuyu which would divide the land believed to be occupied by the Wakikuyu from that which appeared to be unoccupied. ........ Mr Hope had to tackle his task in a hurry, and it was no easy task.
Golf - First President of Nyeri Golf Club in 1922 when the Club started and the present Club House was built. President of Nyeri GC from 1922-1927
Lillibullero - N. Frontier - Hope, whose genial authority still pervaded the desert mind ...…
EAHB 1905 - 3rd Treasury Assistant, EAP, May 17th 1899; Assistant Collector, April 1st 1900; Collector, April 1st 1903.
KAD 1922 - Senior Commissioner and Senior Resident Magistrate, Nyeri
Red 25 - President, Nyeri Club and Nyeri Golf Club and Nyeri Polo Club
The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa
North - Appt. 3rd Asst. Treasurer EAP; based Mombasa June 1899; Appt. Asst. Collector & District Officer at Taveta 14/4/1900; transferred to Ndi Sept 1900; Asst. Dist. Officer Taveta 9/6/1901, Oct 1901; home leave; Appt. Collector 1/4/1903; District Collector Dagoretti at 7/8/1903
Red 22 - Vice-President, Nyeri Gymkhana Club and President, Nyeri Golf Club
Web - British Perspectives on Aulihan Somali Unrest in the East Africa Protectorate, 1915-18 by George L. Simpson Jr. - '………. John Hope, one of the first British officials to serve in the NFD …..
Advertiser - 1/1/09 - The popular late DC of Kiambu. Mr Hope will be stationed at Kismayu
Nicholls - J.O.W. Hope was one of those rare officials who was universally liked and respected by both his colleagues and the settlers.
Medals - East African Political Department - EA Unattached & Miscellaneous List, Honorary Major
North - From Bristol; appt. 3rd Asst. Treasurer EAP 17-5-1899; arr Mombasa from England 3-8-1899
EA Diary 1902 - Listed as Assistant District Officer
EA Diary 1903 - 3rd Treasury Asst., EA Protectorate May 17 1899; Asst. Collector April 1 1900
EAHB 1907 - Collector - Kitui
Red Book 1912 - J.O.W. Hope - Northern Frontier
Red Book 1919 - Jubaland Club, Kismayu - President
Cuckoo - DC at Kiambu in 1906. A nicer man it would be difficult to meet. Died in harness as a Senior PC in Tanganyika. Police - DC Kiambu in 1904.
EAHB 1905 - Collector, Dagoretti
Gazette - 27/9/1927 - Obituary - His Excellency the Governor desires on behalf of Government to express the deep regret felt by all branches of the Service at the death of John Owen Webley Hope, Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George, on September 15th 1927.
Mr Hope retired on pension on August 2nd 1927 after 28 years service in the Kenya Administration during which he filled with distinction the posts of District and Provincial Commissioners. For 2 years during the East African Campaign he was Chief Political Officer and was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1918 in recognition of that service. In 1925 he was appointed as a British Commissioner on the Anglo-Italian Boundary Commission. He was a member of the Legislative Council from April 1924 to December 1926.
Mr Hope earned the affectionate regard of all races by his admirable qualities, and his sound judgment and knowledge of the country. His loss will be greatly felt by his many friends throughout Kenya.
Gazette - 26/9/1923 - Voters Register - Kenya Province - John Owen Webley Hope, Civil Servant PO Nyeri