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Name: SCOTT, Herbert Septimus KB, CMG, Sir
Birth Date: 6 Sep 1873 Polmont, Stirlingshire
Death Date: 16 Feb 1952 Woking, Surrey
First Date: 1922
Last Date: 1935
Profession: Director of Education 1928-35
Area: Nairobi, Limuru
Married: In S. Africa 1906 Ada Gertrude Latchford b. 1869, d. 6 July 1954 Nairobi
Children: Howard Wardlaw Scott (9 July 1908 Pretoria-1993 Durham); 2 dau.
Book Reference: EAWL, O&C, Perham, Tignor, EA & Rhodesia, Barnes, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Dominion, Eton, Foster, Beck
War Service: Worked in War Office, London
School: Eton & Hertford Coll. Oxford
General Information:
President of the Oxford & Cambridge Society - 1934.
Source: Mrs P.J. Trueman
Tignor - had served for many years in the Transvaal Education Dept. where he rose to be Director in 1924.
East Africa & Rhodesia - 21/2/52 - Sir Herbert Septimus Scott, CMG, who died in Woking, Surrey on Saturday, aged 78, had been Director of Education in Kenya and the Transvaal. He was born in London, educated at Eton and Hertford College, Oxford, and when 29 went to the Transvaal during the Milner regime to become a lecturer, and eventually a district headmaster and inspector. Having learnt Afrikaans, he was made secretary for Education in 1913. He held the post for 16 years, and was then for 4 years Director of Education. During the 1914-18 war he was in the Ministry of Munitions and the financial department of the Board of Trade, and in 1928 was appointed Director of Education in Kenya. On his retirement in 1936 he was made CMG. In the last war he served in the Ministry of Information and was knighted in 1948. He was a member of the Committee on Nutrition in the Colonial Empire and of the Colonial Office Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies.
Barnes - Nairobi City Park Cemetery - Lady Ada Gertrude Scott, died 6 Jul 1954 aged 85
Perham - 1929 - Dir. of Education - in every way a substantial man deeply committed to Africa.
Tignor - succeeded J.R. Orr as Dir. Of Education
Dominion - Education Department - Director of Education - 1930 Eton (1892) - Herbert Septimus Scott (K.S.) - Assistant Master, Westgate-on-Sea; Sch. of Hertford Coll. Oxford, 2nd cl. Mods, 4th cl. Finals 1897
Foster - 1931 to 1933 Director of Education, Kenya
Red 31 has H.S. Scott, Education Dept., Nairobi
S Africa Biographical Index: Other: Bachelor of Arts (Oxford), Classical Hons. Secretary and Examiner Transvaal Education Department. Seventh son. Educated at Eton and Hertford College, Oxford. 3 children. Came to South Africa April 1902. Joined the Education Department at Normal Coll