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Name: FITZGIBBON, Henry Elliot

Birth Date: 22 Aug 1889 Dublin

Death Date: 29 Sep 1971 Surrey

First Date: 1928

Last Date: 1933

Profession: Secretariat. Municipal engineer

Area: Nairobi

Married: 1. In Cairo 15 Apr 1921 Marion Kathleen Wordsworth Jameson b. 28 Nov 1894 Hull, d. 28 Oct 1943 Ashtead; 2. In Surrey 1948 Dorothy Isabel Francesca Devenish b. 16 Jan 1909 Maldon, Essex, d. 21 May 1999 Ashtead

Children: 1. Jeremy Elliott (22 Mar 1926 Farnham-2011 Gwynedd, Wales)); Michael Elliott (11 Nov 1927 Farnham-25 Feb 1988 Warwickshire); dau.

Book Reference: Red 31, Dominion, Nicholls

General Information:

Dominion - Municipal and Town Planning Engineer 1930 - H.E. Fitzgibbon
Nicholls - Feetham's report on local government finally appeared in 1929 and its recommendations were put into effect the same year. H.T. Martin, the Municipal Engineer of Nairobi so despised as a town planner by his subordinate Henry Elliot Fitzgibbon, left Kenya and things began to improve.
Gazette - 6/8/1928 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Municipal Engineer - H.E. Fitzgibbon
Gazette - 20/6/1933 - Departed on leave pending termination of appointment - H.E. Fitzgibbon

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