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Name: STURROCK, John Christian Ramsay CMG, MA, Sir
Birth Date: 20 Mar 1875 Madras
Death Date: 13 Feb 1937 Torquay
First Date: 1905
Profession: Initially tutor to the Kabaka of Buganda. Later PC in Uganda
Area: Uganda
Married: In Paddington 19 Apr 1917 Blanche Elizabeth Walker b. 13 Aug 1877 West Calder, Midlothian, d. 3 June 1950 Herne Bay, Kent
Children: John George Ramsay (1919)
Book Reference: Gillett, Lorimer, Debrett, Red 25, Drumkey, Red 22, EAHB 1906, UJ, North, EAHB 1907, Leader14
School: Charterhouse & Balliol College, Oxford
General Information:
Debrett - appointed Dist. Commr. Uganda 1914, and Provincial Commr. 1921 (acted as Ch. Sec. 1924); has been Resident Commr., Basutoland since 1926
Uganda Journal - Vol. 21, No. 1 - Early Days in Kampala by W.E. Hoyle - …. Until about 1906 the guardianship of the Kabaka was in the hands of that very fine chief of Kyagwe, Hamu Mukasa, and then a European tutor, Mr John Sturrock, a Scotsman, took charge of him. He was an Oxford University man and keen on football. He resided in the Lubiri, and in my house adjoining the Uganda Company Stores I often, on a quiet evening, heard the strains of his bagpipes across the valley. He had a football ground made within the Lubiri on which he taught the Baganda youth, including the Kabaka, the rules of the game. ……..
Red 25 - Vice-President, REAAA, (Uganda)