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Name: LEAKEY, Ernest William

Nee: bro of Richard Herbert and Frederick Henry and cousin of Harry and Arundell Gray Arundell Leakey

Birth Date: 1.12.1873 Parracombe, Devon

Death Date: 28.3.1958 Uplyme, Devon

Nationality: British

First Date: 1899

Last Date: 1905

Profession: Asst Treasurer, Uganda Prot. April 1st 1902; later Postmaster-General

Area: Entebbe, Uganda, retired in 1922

Married: In Mombasa 13.6.1899 Minnie Isabella Culverwell, CMS missionary b. 29 May 1867 Clapham, London, d. 1 Apr 1949 Dawlish, Devon

Children: Horace Grosvenor Nettleton (5 Mar 1900 Mombasa, bapt Mombasa 3.4.1900-8 Aug 1980 Newton Abbot); Isobel Margery Bazett (Haskins) (27 May 1904 Uganda-11 Jan 1979 Eastbourne)

Book Reference: Gillett, EAHB 1905, North, EA Diary 1903, Drumkey, EAHB 1906, UJ, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907

School: Eastman's Royal Naval Academy and Pritchard's Army Tutors; passed Woolwich Obligatory Exam, Nov. 1889

General Information:

Uganda Journal - Vol 22, p. 186 - Group photograph of Uganda officials November 1907.

North - Boustead Ridley & Co./UP - based Mombasa June 1899; Appt. Asst. Treasurer UP 8/4/1902; dep. Mombasa for Uganda 5/6/1902; Based at Entebbe Feb 1903; Listed as Treasury Asst., UP Dec 1903; Chief Cashier UP dep. Mombasa for England with wife & child 6-4-1905

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