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Name: LEWIS, Jack Haydon 'Taxi' CMG, OBE

Birth Date: 18 Oct 1904 Molepolele, Bechuanaland Protectorate

Death Date: 14 Sep 1971 Colchester

First Date: 1931

Profession: Appointed as a DO in 1931. Commissioner of Prisons, Kenya - 1952. Admin Cadet, Kenya 1931, DO 1933, Senior DC 1951.

Area: Nairobi

Married: 1. In Westminster 31 Mar 1931 Mary Christina Chandos Pole b. June 1903 Kirk Langley, Derbyshire, d. 1931 Radbourne; 2. 1935 Doris Gwendoline Turner née Edwards b. 10 May 1900 Liverpool, d. 1979 Peterbotough (widow of Arthur Turner 1886-1932)

Book Reference: Staff 39, Who's Who, Staff 53, Reece, Colonial, O&C, Jerry Rilling, Foster

School: Plumtree School, Rhodes Univ. SA and Fitzwilliam House, Cambridge 1928-31; BA (Cantab)

General Information:

Commissioner of Prisons - 7 Apr 1952 - On leave 10 Mar 1960, Retired 23 Apr 1961
Rilling - Administration Cadet 16/7/1931; District Commissioner 2/4/1948; Commissioner of Prisons 1952-61
1939 England and Wales Register living in Bexley with mother and Roy W.E. Lewis (his bro.) b. 19 Aug 1915, as District Officer, on leave
 

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