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Name: DOGGETT, Walter Grimwood
Birth Date: 26.8.1876 Cambridge
Death Date: 3.1.1904 Kagera River, Nsongezi, drowned
Nationality: British
First Date: 1899
Last Date: 1904
Profession: Employed by Sir Harry Johnston as natural history collector; arr. Mombasa 30/9/1899, dep. for Uganda 4/10/1899; Appt. Acting Keeper of the Elephant Farm 1/4/1900; Asst. Scientific & Forestry Dept. March 1901; Permanent appt. to Uganda 16/6/1901
Area: Uganda
Book Reference: North, EA Diary 1903, EAHB 1904, Chandler
General Information:
EA Diary 1903 - Uganda, 1903 - Director of Elephant Farm
North - d. 3-1-1904, Kagera River, drowned, collecting fish when canoe capsized.
EAHB 1904 - Walter Grimwood Doggett - Keeper of elephant farm, Uganda Protectorate April 1st 1900
https://millroadcemetery.org.uk/anderson-mary/ Walter Doggett drowned in the River Kagera, Uganda on 3 January 1904. He was ‘engaged in fishing from a native canoe in order to collect specimens of fish for the British Museum….The canoe, in which there were several native boatmen, drifted on to a submerged rock and was capsized. The natives, it is regrettable to observe, appear to have made no attempt to save their European companion and swam off to the short – no doubt in a panic lest they might be snapped up by crocodiles’.