Land - 1907 - G.G. Longden - Building, 2 acres, Nairobi Hill, 12-5-04, Regsitered 3-5-07

Land - 1907 - G.G. Longden - Grazing, 5000 acres, Rift Valley, 20-9-04, Registered 20-5-07

North - arr. Mombasa from England 1903/4; at Nairobi Jan 1905; wife listed as new member of the Settlers' Association Nairobi 14-1-1905; Mrs Longden confined to her room at 'The Masonic Hotel', Nairobi, ill 4-2-1905; at meeting of settlers protesting at death sentence on Max Wehner Nairobi 10-2-1905; at Mombasa with wife on way to Europe after eighteen months in EA 22-4-1905

Chandler - Commander George Gerald Longden, formerly of the Royal Navy, arrived in East Africa with his wife around 1910. He purchased some land in the Nairobi area and apparently did quite well financially with his first investments. After getting some pointers from John Boyes and becoming friendly with the Belgian administrators of the Eastern Congo, he took to elephant hunting. Longden shot an elephant with tusks of 139 and 141 pounds in Uganda and was also listed in early editions of Rowland Ward for a trophy white rhino. After some initial success in the Lado Enclave, he was injured by an elephant and died after 3 days of intense pain.

Gazette 1/9/1913 - Probate and Administration in respect of the estate of George Gerard Longden late of Nairobi who died on the way from the Belgian Kongo to Koba Africa on 9/3/1911.

A white rhino Longden shot is at the Museum Koenig, Bonn