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Name: HYDE-CLARKE, Ernest Meredyth CBE

Nee: youngest son of Percy Clarke LLB

Birth Date: 3 May 1905 Barnet, Middlesex

Death Date: 10 Oct 1972 Hatfield

First Date: 1927

Last Date: 1950

Profession: DO 1927. Seconded to the Secretariat in 1939. Asst. Secretary, Secretariat, Kenya in 1939, Originally Admin Cadet 1927

Area: Nairobi, 1930 Kacheliba, Kitale

Married: 1. In Wimbledon 30 Sep 1930 Edith Margaret Stevenson b. 1906 Disley, Cheshire, d. 1957 Manchester; 2. In Hatfield 1970 Barbara Joan Gilmore b. 17 Dec 1924, d. 1972 Hatfield

Children: Janet (1932); Susan R. (1936)

Book Reference: Staff 39, Cobbold, Red 31, Hut, Colonial, Dominion, Janet Hyde Clarke

School: St. George's School Harpenden, London School of Economics and Wadham College Oxford

General Information:

Dominion - Administration Cadet - 1930
Cobbold - 1934 - DC at Marsabit.
Colonial - Labour Comsnr. 1945; Ret. & re-app. establishment sec. (temp) 1952
Janet Hyde Clarke - in 1946 he was a founder member of the United Kenya Club. Left Kenya in 1950 for Ghana
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Trans Nzoia Voters List expunged
Director of Manpower and Labour Commission, MLC Kenya, 1945-50
Ghana 1950-3
Kenya Constitutional Commission (Boundaries) 1962
 

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