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Name: BOULDERSON, George Henry Carne BA
Birth Date: 5 Aug 1889 Kensington
Death Date: 9 Jan 1969 Mombasa
First Date: 1912
Profession: EAP Administration
Area: Nyanza, Turkana, Masai, Central, Coast - a keen yachtsman, Mombasa, 1922 - Eldoret, 1925 Nandi, 1930 Kisumu
Married: 1. In London 1923 Doris Cornforth; 2. (by 1939) Coralie G. Stanford b. 30 Dec 1905, d. 26 Aug 1945 Mombasa
Children: John (b. and. d. 26 Feb 1935 Mombasa); Geoffrey C. (1936); Ian (1939)
Book Reference: Gillett, Eldoret, Staff 39, Rayne, Staff 53, Perham, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Mombasa, Hut, Colonial, Red 22, O&C, Gazette, Dominion, Leader14, Red 19
War Service: WW1 joined Carrier Corps, and later with Intelligence with Masai Scouts on GEA border.
School: Clare College, Cambridge 1908-11
General Information:
Stationed for some years in the Nyanza Province. He was closely concerned with the establishment of local Native Councils. In 1931 he was acting PC at Turkana.
After service in Masai, Central and Coast Provinces, was PC at the Coast for 8 years before retiring in 1941. In WW2 he was with the EA Pioneer Corps in the Middle East until 1944. After serving as a Magistrate in Mombasa, he retired in 1962. He was a keen yachtsman.
Eldoret - was resident Commissioner in Eldoret in Dec. 1921 when the first Race Meeting took place, and relates this happening there. Whilst waiting for a race to begin, he and Mr Townsend saw the father of a well known Afrikaans resident, who has recently left, who had entered for a race and had been weighed in, ride his horse to his wagon, take off the weights and hide them inside his wagon. These two observers reported the matter to the stewards. The horseman won the race and then went through the motions of being unable to stop his horse, eventually pulling up by the wagon and regaining his weights.. In the meantime the stewards streamed after the galloping horse and saw the reclamation of the weights. The stewards afterwards debated the punishment in a marquee reserved for their use, and whilst the debate was in progress the marquee was burnt down! The horseman's own people beat him up, but in the evening when the races were over and he was having a drink with a friend in the Pioneer Hotel, and Daddy Tate caught his eye, strode over and threw the culprit out, so all in all it could not have been a very pleasant race meeting for him.
Staff 39 - Appointed PC 1934. Originally Asst. DC 1912.
Rayne - 'On arrival at Lokiriama we learned that Boulderson, the civil officer, had intercepted, but 2 days previously, a party of Swahili raiders returning from a foray in Karamoja, a Uganda district a few miles to the west. With a scratch team, collected from the small garrison (mostly recruits) Rainsford had left behind in Lokiriama, the plucky Boulderson surprised the Swahili camp at dawn ...…
Staff 53 - Resident Magistrate at Mombasa in 1953. Served in the Administration 1912-41. Re-engaged as Temp. Res. Magistrate 1946
Perham - DC at Kisumu in 1929 - had been under my brother-in-law Major Rayne when he was in command of the Turkana expedition.
KAD 1922 - Asst. District and Resident Commissioner, Eldoret, also shown as at Voi
Mombasa - President, Mombasa Sports Club in 1935
Colonial - Asst. DC Mar 1912; 1st grade administrative officer 1924; Provincial Commissioner 1934
Gazette - 4/11/1914 - Appt. - Carrier Corps - To be Lieutenant - C.H.C. Boulderson
Dominion - District Officer - 1930
Gazette 1/5/1912 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Asst. District Commissioner - 20/4/1912
Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Kenya Area - George Henry Carne Boulderson - Civil Servant, Nyeri
Red Book 1919 - G H C Boulderson - Asst. Dist. Commissioner - Nyeri
Gazette, 6 Dec 1938 Msa Voters List next to Coralie Stanford
Gazette 11 Apr 1969 probate
1939 England and Wales Register - on leave in Bournemouth with wife
Mombasa Mbarabi cemetery BOULDERSON Given Name: Coralie Stanford Birth: Death: 26 Aug 1945 , Place of Death: Mombasa Nursing Home AGED: YR: 39 Date of Burial: 26 Aug 1945 Cause of Death: Anaemia & heart failure. Also baby John buried there.