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Name: BOYLE, Alexander George KCMG, CBE, Sir

Birth Date: 6 Mar 1872 Rathmines, Dublin

Death Date: 18 Apr 1943 Chard, Somerset

Nationality: British

First Date: 1895 former Private Secretary to the Senior Puisne Judge in the Straits Settlements

Last Date: 1910

Profession: Joined the Uganda Administration Service and acted as Secretary to HM Commissioner Uganda from 1899-1900. He then alternated between the Administration and Audit Depts. of Uganda. Finally promoted to PC

Area: Uganda. EAHB 1905 - Asst. Secretary, Uganda Prot.

Married: In Kingston, Surrey 5 Oct 1898 Sibyl Blanche Hodgson b. 8 Jan 1876 Charterhouse, Godalming, d. 17 June 1941 Yeovil

Children: Edward Alexander Vigars (1899 Brentford- Mombasa 6.10.1899); Archibald Alexander Vigars (d. Mombasa 1902 aged 7 mths); David Alexander James (1903 Uganda-1952); John Desmond (14 Mar 1905 Brighton-1970); Robert Verelst (17 Dec 1907 Brighton-1988); Elizabeth E. (4 Nov 1909)

Book Reference: Gillett, Moyse, Purvis, Fitzgerald, Roosevelt, EAHB 1905, EAS, North, Colonial, Debrett, EA Diary, Drumkey, UJ, EAHB 1906, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907

School: Charterhouse, Clifton College and RIEC Coopers Hill

General Information:

Moyse - 1904 - Political Officer, Central Province, Uganda  
Fitzgerald - Observations of the variations in the level of Victoria Nyanza at Port Alice 1896
Roosevelt - At Entebbe we stayed with the acting-Governor, Mr Boyle  
EAHB 1905 - Private Secretary to the Senior Puisne Judge, Straits Settlements, 1893; resigned 1895; Assistant Treasurer, Uganda Protectorate, Sept. 18th 1895; Acting Secretary to H.M. Commissioner, Uganda Protectorate, Feb. 1896 to April 1898; Acting Treasurer, March 1899 to Feb. 1900; Deputy Treasurer, April 1st 1900; Acting Secretary to the Administration, May 1901 to Jan. 1902; appointed Collector with seniority of Sept. 18th 1895, April 1st 1902; Assistant Secretary, April 1st 1902.
The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa
North - Appt. 3rd Asst. Accountant UP 18-9-1895; arr. Fort Smith 5-1-1896; Acting Sec. UP from Feb 1896; Dep. Ravine on operation in Kamassia country 21-6-1897; 2nd Accountant UP May 1901; Appt. Sub-Comm. Central Province 30-11-1903 based at Jinja
Uganda Journal - Vol. 2 No. 2 - Further Memories of Uganda by Sir Albert Cook - The first English ladies to arrive in the country [Uganda] were 5 CMS ladies in 1895, followed by 3 more in 1896. The first Government lady (I speak from memory only) was, I think, Mrs Foaker in 1898. Mrs Boyle was the first lady in Entebbe in 1903.
North - Mrs Boyle 'Pretty little thing' (Moffat, RH); at Entebbe with wife and child Oct 1901; child died at Mombasa aged 7 months, convulsions, Nov 1902
1939 England and Wales Register living in Wincanton with wife and dau Elizabeth

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