View entry
Name: HUSSEY, Eric Robert James CMG
Birth Date: 26 Apr 1885 Blandford, Dorset
Death Date: 19 May 1958 Cuckfield, Sussex
First Date: 1912
Last Date: 1929
Profession: Uganda Admin as DC, Education Dept. as Chief Inspector
Area: Uganda, Director of Education 1928, Nigeria, retired to UK 1936
Married: In Chelsea 19 July 1922 Christine Elizabeth Justice Morley b. 19 Dec 1891 London, d. 10 Oct 1977 Cuckfield, Sussex
Children: Marmaduke James (later Lord, chm of BBC, 29 Aug 1923 Guildford-27 Dec 2006 London); one dau.
Book Reference: Gillett, Debrett, EA & Rhodesia, Richardson, Snoxall, ODNB
School: Repton; Hertford College, Oxford
General Information:
Debrett - entered Sudan Civil Service 1908; became Director of Education, Uganda 1925, and Nigeria 1929; appointed Sec. National So. 1936, and Educational Adviser to Emperor of Ethiopia 1942; was on staff of British Council 1945-9
Snoxall - 1928 - The then Director of Education in Uganda, Eric Hussey, was a forceful and energetic man given to early rising. Soon after 6 am each morning he would take a constitutional walk around the hillside, throwing stones onto the roofs of his still slumbering officers and exhorting them by name to "rise and shine". These gentlemen were then expected to assist in the training of college athletes exercising for the forthcoming Protectorate games. Hussey himself was rather better qualified than his subordinates in this respect, since he was an Oxford blue and an Olympic hurdler (!908)
1939 England and Wales Register living in Westminster as Secretary, National Society of Religious Ed...[illegible]