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Name: WALTER, Albert OBE
Birth Date: 6 July 1877 Blackheath, London
Death Date: 1972 Thanet
First Date: 1926
Profession: Director of EA Meteorological Service in 1939, appointed 1939. Originally Statistician to Governors' Conference 1926. Transferred from Mauritius
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Port Louis, Mauritius 8 Oct 1900 Louisa Ernestine Garrioch b. 1882 Mauritius, d. 2 Feb 1983 Canterbury, Kent
Children: Sydney Grant (1904-1993); Philip Lucien (1907-2002); Maurice William (1907-1964); Albert Joshua (1910); Norman Edward (1910-1992); Lindsay Jean Joseph (1916); Clifton Ignatius (1921-2005). All born in Mauritius
Book Reference: Staff 39, Red 31, Nicholls
War Service: War service 1943-47, G/Capt.
School: Roans School, Blackheath
General Information:
Colonial - Royal Observatory Greenwich 1892; Asst. Dir. Royal Alfred Observatory Mauritius 1897; Census Commissioner Mauritius 1911 and 1921; Dir. Royal Alfred Observatory 1911; Food, Trade and Export Contr. 1920-22; Mem. of Council of Govt. 1922; Statistician Kenya 1926; Dir. Br. EA meteor. service 1928.
Nicholls - Walter was born on 14 July 1877, the son of a stationer on Blackheath Hill, London. He went to Nairobi as head of the Statistical Department, one of the functions of which was to provide statistics for the East African Governors' conferences. He created censuses, including the agricultural census; migration, crime, bank and price statistics; and statistics of births and deaths. When air services started he had to furnish them with meteorological information, and as a result became director of meteorological services.
Nicholls - Albert Walter, the country's statistician and a keen Catholic, formed a Kenya European Catholic Association in 1926, its object being 'to bring Europeans together to organise Catholic action in all its forms and eventually to embrace all classes and races of Roman Catholics in Kenya.'
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