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Name: MULLINS, Aubrey Charles Madgewick 'Mug'

Birth Date: 7 Mar 1903 Johannesburg

Death Date: 24 Aug 1965 Henley, Oxfordshire

First Date: 1926

Profession: Appointed as a DO in 1926. DC Rumuruti in 1939.

Area: Rumuruti, 1930 Lokichar, P.O. Kitale

Married: In Johannesburg 29 Apr 1933 Dorothy Mary Otley b. 22 June 1906 Pinner, d. 3 Nov 2004, Constantia, Cape Town

Book Reference: Staff 39, Bwana, Staff 53, Red 31, Hut, Colonial, Bellers, Dominion, Nicholls

School: St. Andrew's Coll., Grahamstown SA and Keble College Oxford; BA (Oxon)

General Information:

Colonial - Cadet 1926; Asst. DC 1928; Dep. PC 1946; PC 1947
Bellers - Chap. 4 - District Headquarters was at Moyale, about 160 miles to the west. There resided the District Commissioner, Major 'Mug' Mullins. Letters were exchanged between them, taken by lorry or camel Dominion - District Officer - 1930
Nicholls - 1928 - My house is made of mud with holes of various sizes and shapes to represent doors and windows. The floor is nothing more than mother earth … … Everything is continually covered in sand, mud or white ants and consequently any degree of comfort is impossible …… It is remarkable how much the office owes to petrol boxes and tins …… The insects at night are most trying and appear in large numbers in the form of moths and beetles of all descriptions, that it is almost impossible …… to read or write, and quite futile to consider any supper but bread and cheese. Scorpions, tarantulas and snakes are also numerous.
Nicholls - It is unsurprising that when A.C.M. ('Mug') Mullins, the PC, retired from his Nyeri posting a number of missing files, presumably those concerning intractable problems, were found hidden in his office lavatory.
Bwana - DC at Maralal 1938. On leave pending retirement as a PC in 1953.
Hut has A.C. Mullins 1937 Thika
Gazette 9 Aug 1966 probate
1945 DC Kiambu, 1941 DC Digo, 1930 Magistrate in Meru, 1926 ADC Kiamu, 1928 ADC Turkana, 1948 PC Central Province

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