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Name: MORRISON, Alexander
Birth Date: 30.12.1879 Boharm, Banff
First Date: 1904
Profession: Barrister & Advocate, Magistrate Kisumu 1904, Town Magistrate Msa. 1905-9.
Area: Kisumu, later in practice in Mombasa, Pres. Coast Planters Assoc., Dar es Salaam, 1930 Mombasa
Married: In Mombasa 28 Sep 1906 Harriet Isabella Susan Duguid b. 1880 Glenmuick, d. 5 June 1914 Mombasa
Children: Allan Duguid (Nairobi 29.3.1908)
Book Reference: North, Gillett, SE, HBEA, Permanent Way, Golf, EAHB 1905, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Playne, Drumkey, Red 22, Advertiser, EAHB 1906, North, EAHB 1907, Leader14, Red Book 1912
War Service: Hon. Lieut. Arab Rifles
School: Aberdeen University & Middle Temple, called to Bar 1903, MA, BSc.
General Information:
SE - A. Morrison - Town Magistrate - Nov 1907 Served on many other public and charitable committees at the coast.
Golf - Present at the formation meeting of Mombasa Golf Club in 1911
EAHB 1905 - Magistrate, Kisumu. Cert of Honour, C.L.E., and J.J. Powell Prize in Common Law; Magistrate, Kisumu, EAP, July 9th 1904.
Red 25 - President, Mombasa Law Society Mr Morrison, who was educated at Aberdeen University, was called to the bar in 1903. On July 9th of the following year he became Magistrate at Kisumu, and was Acting Town Magistrate at Mombasa in 1905 (March 15th to May 6th). Mr Morrison became Magistrate at Nairobi in 1906 (July 27th)
Drumkey - Visiting Justice of HM Principal Prison at Mombasa
Drumkey 1909 - Judicial Department - Town Magistrate, Nairobi
Red 22 - President, Coastal Planters' Association, Mombasa
Advertiser - 4/9/1908 - Subscribers for St. Andrew's Church Building Fund - A. Morrison - Rs. 100
Advertiser - 2/10/1908 - Nairobi Amateur Dramatic Society - "Bluebeard in East Africa" - A. Morrison - Grand Vizier
Advertiser - 16/10/1908 - Nairobi Golf Club - Bowring Monthly Handicap - A. Morrison, handicap 7
EAHB 1906 - Acting Town Magistrate, Mombasa, March 15th to May 6th 1905
North - Appt. Magistrate, Kisumu 9-7-1904
Red Book 1912 - A. Morrison - Mombasa
P.W. - A Nairobi Lawyer, was approached to take up the Masai case re the move, in June 1912.
'East Africa' - 1934 - Director of Boustead & Clarke Ltd.
President, Mombasa Club 1929
W.A. Kempe diary 7 Feb 1906 Morrison the judge – a rum & rather dirty looking chap with appearance of the bookworm & rather blunt Scotch way but not bad chap arrived to stay with Pearson