Gazette - 12/11/1919 - Register of Voters - Lake Area - Ronald Delabere Barker - Government Official - Mumias

Gethin - served in WW1 and was quite amusing but not much use at his job.

Papers in Rhodes House Library, Oxford

Ronald Bacon de la Bere Barker in passenger list of 6 Dec 1928 London-Tanga, born 1889, 'hunter and farmer'

UK Registers of Habitual Criminals and Police Gazettes Ronald Bacon de la Bere Barker b. 1886 Christchurch, NZ, 'criminal intimidation (threat being to cause death)- Tanganyika High Court, 3 years rigorous imprisonment 2.5.1928. Freed 30.7.1930  London, Hunter and planter

National Library of New Zealand Ronald Delabere Barker, who sometimes signed his middle name as 'de la Bere', was born in Christchurch on 29 May 1889, the son of Samuel Delabere Barker (1848-1901) and his wife Frances Harriette Lean (d 1939). Barker spent more than 25 years living in remote parts of East Africa. Described as a jungle hermit and big game hunter, he was the author of a number of books, some of which were published under the pseudonym 'Rufiji'. Papers consist of one letter and two printed articles. The typescript letter with manuscript annotations and signature, is addressed to fellow New Zealander Eric Arnold Temple-Perkins (1890-1972), of Mbarara in Western Uganda, and is dated Utete Tanganyika, 5 October 1958. The letter includes the statement 'I am a New Zealander' in the opening sentence, and goes on to discuss various past and forthcoming publications, including both Swahili and English editions of Barker's books and a series of his weekly articles published in the Tanganyika Standard from 1931 onwards. Also provides biographical details, including broadcasting from Dar es Salaam, looking after the Sekenke Gold Mine, driving in the Serengati and Mara area recruiting labourers for the Geita Gold Mine and living at the Rufiji River in the midst of the Selous Game Reserve.