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Name: HEATON, George Herbert OBE
Birth Date: 8.3.1896 Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk
Death Date: 1967 Bournemouth
First Date: 1935
Profession: Commissioner of Prisons, Prisons Dept., Kenya in 1939, appointed 1938. Transferred from Tanganyika Territory
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Reading 1929 Gertrude Emily Scott b. 8.7.1901 Grantham, Lincs., d. 25.2.1986 Newbury, Berks.
Book Reference: Staff 39, Colonial, Aero, Jerry Rilling
War Service: Military service 1915, Lieut.
School: Privately and Oxford University
General Information:
Colonial - HM Borstal Institutions 1924; Supt. Prisons Uganda 1927; Commissioner Tanganyika Terr. 1931; Kenya 1938; Principal Probation Officer Kenya 1946; Mem. Prob. of offenders, cost of living and habitual offenders committees, all Kenya, Chmn. Kenya Asian Civ. Serv. Advsy Board 1946
Aero - President of the Aero Club of East Africa in 1946 Commissioner of Prisons - 12 Nov 1938 - On leave 5 Apr 1951, Retired 15 Oct 1952
Rilling - Home Prisons Service 1924-27; Uganda Prisons Service 1927-31; Tanganyika Prisons Service 1931-38; Commissioner of Prisons, Kenya 1938-51