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Name: HILL, Clement Lloyd KCB, KCMG, FRGS, Sir
Nee: related to Viscount Hill
Birth Date: 5.5.1845 Wem, Shropshire
Death Date: 9.4.1913 London
Nationality: British
First Date: 1900
Profession: FO official in charge of Africa
Married: 1. In Paris 10 July 1889 Mrs Charlotte Eliza Mary Jane Waring née Denys b. 1847 Inverness, d. 11 Jan 1900 London; 2. In London 6 Dec 1906 Muriel Mary Campbell b. 2 Aug 1874 London, d. 4 Aug 1958 Burgess Hill, Sussex
Children: 1. Rachel (1891-1892) 2. Clement Walter Rowland (22 Feb 1909-1997); Primrose Agnes (13 Dec 1907-1971)
Book Reference: Hobley, Kenya Diary, Kelly, North, Burke, Fox Davies
General Information:
Kenya Diary - Jan 1904 - Sir Clement Hill, who recently visited the colony on behalf of the Foreign Office, remarked that "so long as Civil Servants were enlisted from the gutter" we could not expect a high standard of administration. When such men are given unlimited power over uneducated and simple-minded natives it is not extraordinary that they should abuse their powers, suffer from megalomania and regard themselves as little tin gods.
Kelly - entered Foreign Office 1867, Actg. Sec. of Legation in Diplomatic Service 1886, on special service in Hayti June to Sept. 1886 and in 1887.
Hobley - arrived at Fort Ternan on an inspection of the country - story of beast of Lake Victoria (p. 113)