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Name: McKEAN, James Douglas Michael OBE
Birth Date: 1 Sep 1891 Scotland
Death Date: 11 Aug 1956 Marylebone, London
First Date: 1917
Profession: Appointed Senior DC 1938. Originally Asst. DC 1917. Acting PC Coast in 1939
Area: Mombasa, 1922 Loitokitok, 1925 Secretariat, Nairobi, 1930 Lodwar
Married: Nora Beatrice b. 1888, teacher
Book Reference: Staff 39, Tignor, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Colonial, EA & Rhodesia, Red 22, Dominion, Gazette, Red 19
War Service: East African units
General Information:
East Africa & Rhodesia - 30/8/56 - Mr James Douglas Michael McKean, OBE, who has died in London at the age of 65, served in East Africa during the 1914-18 war, entered the Colonial Administrative Service in Kenya in 1917, became Acting Provincial Commissioner at the Coast in 1939, and in 1941 joined the Occupied Enemy Territories Administration in Somalia. He retired from the Colonial Service at the end of the war, but was re-employed from 1947 to 1951, for part of the time as District Commissioner, Nairobi.
Dominion - District Officer - 1930
Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Ukamba Area - James Douglas McKean - Civil Servant, Fort Hall
Tignor - 1932 - DC Kiambu.
KAD 1922 - Asst. District and Resident Commissioner, Loitokitok
Gazette 28 Aug 1956 probate
Nora Beatrice is possibly his sister.