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Name: HYDE-BAKER, Harold

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Nee: nephew of Sir Samuel Baker

Birth Date: 6 Feb 1867 Avranches, France

Death Date: 15 Oct 1910 Parkstone, Dorset

Nationality: British

First Date: 1899

Profession: EAP Administrative Service

Area: Uganda, Taveta, Soba, Baringo, Ribo, 1909 Embu

Book Reference: Gillett, Cuckoo, Hobley, Moyse, Percival, White Man, EAHB 1905, EAS, Hut, North, EA Diary 1903, EAHB 1906, EAHB 1904

General Information:

Hobley - established first post at Baringo on a ridge by the lake shore.   
Gillett - Joined the Uganda Protectorate Administration and in 1902 transferred to the EAP  
Moyse - The affair at Ribo Post 1900-01 - message to Capt. C.E. Bagnall at Eldama Ravine - "Dear Bagnall, I am having a bad time, fever bad, and having to fight all the time. The natives are one too many for us, bad rifles and too few men. Hope to hold out. Yours urgently, H. Hyde Baker." scribbled on a piece of paper. Ribo was 140 miles north of Eldama Ravine. .... Hyde Baker had been appointed to command Ribo post. ..... May 1900 Capt. C.E. Bagnall, the Acting Collector, Baringo District marched from Eldama to punish Cheptulel people. ....... In Jan 1901 a military expedition left Ravine under the command of Capt. E.H. Gorges for Ribo ..... soon after the post at Ribo was abandoned! ................ after the 1903 expedition against the Nandi an adminsitrative station was set up at Sobat, about 7 miles from Muhoroni, under Hyde Baker   Percival - mentions hunting wart hog on a Saturday afternoon - like his uncle, Sir Samuel, a beautiful shot and a great sportsman   
White Man - Opened station at Lake Baringo as an assistant Collector - attacked by Suk and relieved a year later by Capt. Bagnall. ...... 1905 - Nandi trouble - only one settler had ventured anywhere near their country. He took up a farm on the opposite side of the railway from their territory. Collector in charge of Nandi district - Mr Hyde Baker. ....... the Nandi tried to poison the settler with honey - he gave it to his monkey who spat it out. .......... There is a story that the Collector's native clerk was sent to the chief's boma with a demand for hut tax. He was murdered and his head sent back to the Govt. station with a message: "This is the hut tax of the Nandi."
EAHB 1905 - 3rd Assistant, Uganda Protectorate, July 27th 1899; Asst. Collector, EAP 1st April 1902
The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa
North - From Newton Abbot, Devon; Appt. 3rd Asst. Collector UP 27-7-1899; Arr. Mombasa 27-9-1899; "Recently stationed north of Baringo - reported giving way to intemperance" 10-10-1900 (Sir H. Johnston FO2); Moved to Baringo and member of a punitive expedition against the Suk and Turkana Jan 1901; Sub-Collector Baringo Nov 1901; transferred from UP to EAP 1-4-1902; transferred from Baringo to Takaungu 5-1-1903; listed as Asst. Collector Soba 1-4-1904; 'Baker - a thoroughly unprincipled scamp and is unfit for any position of responsibility' (F.J. Jackson FO 2)
EAS - 29/1/1903 - Mr Hyde Baker, D.O. leaves for up-country by todays mixed.
EAHB 1906 - Resigned during 1905
North - Resigned, end of appt. 9-12-1905
EA Diary 1903 - 3rd Asst. Uganda July 27 1899; Asst. Collector, EA Protectorate April 1 1902
Moyse - commanded post at Ribo 140 miles north of Eldama Ravine 1900
Cuckoo - In charge of Sobat Boma 1904. A man much after his uncle's kidney. Sobat boma abandoned after the Nandi Rebellion in 1905-06.
UK Registers of Births from British Consulates

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