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Name: LINDSAY, Kenneth Gordon OBE
Photo Source: Phyllida Cockell photo album
Birth Date: 20 Jan 1899
Death Date: 15 Apr 1971 Kensington, London
First Date: 1921
Last Date: 1950
Profession: Appointed a DO in 1921. DC Eldoret in 1939.
Area: Eldoret, Embu, 1922 - Meru, 1930 Kiambu, 1922 Nyeri
Married: Helen Eckford Pearson Douglas b. 19 July 1901 S. Africa, d. 9 Apr 1976 London
Children: Ian Douglas (1935-1998)
Book Reference: Golf, Staff 39, Tignor, KAD, Red 31, Hut, Colonial, EA & Rhodesia, Red 22, Dominion, Gazette
War Service: Military service 1917-19, Lieut., Rifle Brigade
School: Merchiston Castle and New College Oxford
General Information:
Winner of Horne Cup, Nyeri Club Championship in 1932.
Colonial - Cadet, Kenya 1921; PC 1944; Dep. Ch. Sec. 1946; C.S. Comsnr. Palestine 1947; Asst. to Comsnr. for Transport, EAHC 1949.
East Africa & Rhodesia - 13/7/50 - Mr Kenneth Gordon Lindsay, who has arrived in London to take up his duties as secretary of the East African Club now in process of establishment, joined the Colonial Service in Kenya early in 1921, and served in the district and provincial administration for 25 years, latterly as Provincial Commissioner at the Coast, before Sir Philip Mitchell decided to transfer him to the Secretariat as Deputy Chief Secretary to the Government. There can have been few cases of the appointment to such an office of someone who had never previously served in a secretariat, and there was general regret when, in order to broaden his experience, Mr Lindsay went to Palestine in 1947 as Civil Service Commissioner, a new and difficult post. After the withdrawal of British Administration from the mandated territory he returned to Nairobi as personal assistant to Sir Reginald Robins, Commissioner of Transport in the EA High Commission, who has released him so that he may devote himself to the work of the new club. ….
Mr Lindsay was an elder of St. Andrew's (Scottish) Church in Nairobi.
Dominion - District Officer - 1930
Gazette 27/7/1921 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Asst. District Commissioner - 18/7/1921
Tignor - 1934 - DC Embu.
KAD 1922 - Administration Cadet, Meru.
Hut - Col. Swinton-Home's brother-in-law