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Name: CALDWELL, Keith Farquhar Townley (Capt. RA)
Nee: son of Col. Robert Townley Caldwell, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Birth Date: 21 Nov 1886 Cambridge
Death Date: 3 May 1956 Westminster, London [Christ Church, Kincardine O'Neil cem Scotland]
First Date: 1918
Last Date: 1958
Profession: ADC to Governor Sir Henry Belfield
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Nairobi Cathedral 7 Jan 1929 Isabel Kathleen Bingham b. 1895 Liverpool, d. 21 June 1984 Kincardine
Book Reference: Nellie, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, EA & Rhodesia, Red 22, Elephant, Kingsley-Heath, Chandler, Fox-Davies, Red 19
War Service: 1910 commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery; severely wounded in France at end of 1914
School: Clifton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge
General Information:
Red 25 - Committee Member, REAAA
Red 25 - Assistant Game Warden, Nairobi; formerly Captain, Royal Artillery; Aide de Camp to H.E. the Governor, Kenya. Regular Officer, commissioned 1910; France 1914-15, severely wounded.
Last Chance (1948) - late Game Warden of Uganda and formerly Asst. Game Warden of Kenya
EA & Rhodesia - 22/5/58 - Obituary - Captain Keith Parker Townley Caldwell ? …….. When Sir Edward Northey was made Governor of Kenya at the end of the war he invited Caldwell to accompany him as private secretary. Three years later he became assistant game warden under Archie Ritchie, and in 1925 he was appointed to Uganda as warden. A few months later he was back in Kenya as senior assistant warden. He had to retire in 1929 through illness, and was appointed an honorary game warden of Kenya, an office which he continued to hold. ………. [more]
Elephant - By Captain Keith Caldwell's retirement from Kenya through ill-health East Africa lost one of the finest organisers a Game Department could have. During his spell of duty as Acting Game Warden he brought in reforms and laws which reduced poaching in the most effective way - prohibiting the indiscriminate sale of hides and trophies. He inspired amongst officials and settlers a most wonderful sympathy for the preservation of game in Kenya, and was the originator of a few large Reserves for game rather than a number of small ones. He will also be remembered as the pioneer of the new motor route from Nairobi to Paris, being the first man to do the complete trip, passing via the Sudan, Darfur, French Equatorial Africa and across the Sahara to Gibraltar, Spain and Paris.
Fox Davies 1902 - Keith Farquhar Townley Caldwell - son of Robert Townley Caldwell Esq., and Ellen Philippa Mary Farquhar (d. 1886)
Gazette 5/4/2938 - Honorary Game Warden
Red Book 1919 - Capt. K F T Caldwell - Private Secretary to HE the Governor - Nairobi
KAD 1922 - Aide-de-Camp to Maj.-Gen. Sir Edward Northey.
KAD 1922 - Asst. District and Resident Commissioner, Nairobi.
Red 25 - Assistant Game Warden, Ag. Game Warden 1923
Blue Book 1926 appt Asst. Game Warden 18.12.1918
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