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Name: LEGGETT, Edward Humphrey Manisty RE, DSO (Major), Sir
Nee: son of George Edward Leggett
Birth Date: 7 Dec 1871 Southsea
Death Date: 17 May 1947 Kensington, London
First Date: 1907
Profession: Member of Legislative Council, Managing Director of BEA Corporation, seconded from Colonial Office. Council of British Cotton Growing Assoc. in EAP
Area: Nairobi, HBEA 1912 Mombasa
Married: In Mombasa 4 July 1907 Ada Mary Dyson b. 28 July 1864 Plympton, Devon, d. 9 Sep 1959 Alyth, Perthshire
Children: None in Who's Who
Book Reference: Gillett, HBEA, Debrett, Playne, Drumkey, Red 22, Land, DSO, Leader14, Red Book 1912, African World
School: Clifton College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and on staff of London & North Western Railway
General Information:
Debrett - entered RE 1890, became Capt. 1901, and Brevet Major 1902, retired 1911; served in S. Africa 1899-1902 as Dep. Assist. Director of Railways on HQ Staff (despatches, 2 medals with 6 clasps, Brevet Major, DSO); was Director of Burgher Land Settlement in S. Africa 1902-5, and a Staff Officer RE, E. Command 1906-7, since when he has been employed in EA Protectorate and Uganda on special duty under Colonial Office and British Cotton Growing Asso.; has Order of the Crown of Belgium
Playne - British EA Corporation Ltd. - The Corporation, with nominal capital £100,000 was registered in London in December, 1906, with, as its principal object, the prosecution in British EA and Uganda of the work and policy of the British Cotton Growing Association. The latter, as is well known, is a society incorporated under Royal Charter to spread cotton growing within the Empire etc. ...... engaged in ancillary activities to promote cotton growing ...... in view of the Government interest in the development of the countries, the Colonial Office lent the Association the services of Major Leggett DSO, Royal Engineers, who had previously been employed in S. Africa under Lord Milner on land settlement work; and this officer was appointed General Manager of the Corporation in EA.
Work commenced early in 1907 ........ The rubber estates of Mr Hugh Barclay (of Barclays' Bank Ltd.), of Mr Tonks, and other well-known [absentee] owners of land in East Africa, are thus managed by the BEA Corporation Ltd. Drumkey - Member of Land Board
Drumkey 1909 - Committee Member, The Chamber of Commerce, Mombasa (B. Cotton Growing Association)
Land - 1908 - Mrs A.M. Leggett - Residential, 5 acres, Parklands, Nairobi, 4-10-07, Registered 21-9-08
DSO - London Gazette 27/9/1901 - In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa …….. {more on his military career} ……. was employed in the East African Protectorate 1 Feb 1907 to 1910 being lent to the Colonial Office for special duty under the Council of the British Cotton-Growing Association in East Africa and Uganda 1907-10; retired from the Army with the rank of Major 4 Feb 1911. Member of the Legislative Council of British East Africa 1908-9
Red Book 1912 - E.M.M. Leggett - Mombasa ?
African World 31/10/1913 - His first official appointment was as Board of Trade Delegate to the International Railway Congress in 1895. During the War he did conspicuous wwork as a Special Service Officer on the HQ Staff. In 1907 he was lent to the Colonial Office for Special Duty under the Council of the British Cotton Growing Association in East Africa and Uganda. He is a useful member of the Legislative Council of BEA. During the last 5 years - as Managing Director of the British East Africa Corporation he has played an increasingly important and noteworthy part in the development of the Protectorate which he has made his home.
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