Red 22 - W.M. Keatinge, Admin. Genl., Zanzibar

Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - William Maybury Keatinge, British, age 57, died 22/8/37 - William Maybury Keatinge / "underneath are the everlasting arms" ; also Alice Maude Keatinge / March 30th 1941 / "underneath are the / everlasting arms"

Dominion - Registrar-General, Official Receiver and Public Trustee - 1930

Red 31 - Registrar General

Gazette 16 Nov 1936 Voters List 1936 - Nairobi South - William Maybury Keatinge, Registrar General, Gymkhana Rd and Mrs Alice Maude Keatinge, married woman, Gymkhana Rd., Nbi.

EAS 21 Aug 1937 He joined the Kenya service as Registrar General, Public Trustee and Official Receiver in June 1924 but his connection with East Africa began nearly ten years earlier when at the age of twenty-six he was appointed Administrator General, Registrar of Deeds and Secretary of the Waqf Commission in Zanzibar in March 1915. He was educated at Monmouth Grammar School and Trinity College Dublin where he had a distinguished scholastic career and was the Jellett prizeman. He was BA, LLB and took his LLD in 1906 when he was only twenty-four. A year later he qualified as a solicitor and practised until the outbreak of war. Shortly thereafter he accepted the Zanzibar appointment where the East African campaign added to the normal duties many difficult problems. Six months after he entered office he was appointed Joint Custodian of Enemy Property and Liquidator of enemy firms, a post which he held until the close of hostilities. In 1919 he became Official Trustee in Zanzibar and in 1920 was also Controller of the local clearing office. He was a familiar figure in Kenya Civil Service circles, at Nairobi Club and on the golf course. Golf was his principal recreation. He has Irish geniality in full measure and those who enjoyed his intimate acquaintance relished the cynical flavour of his humour and knew him for a good friend who was essentially kindly. With the business community whose affairs came within his orbit both in conditions of success and failure, he was a strict disciplinarian but one who knew also went to turn a half-seeing eye on legal sins of omission when such were the outcome either of ignorance or genuine error. For the others whose offences were due to neglect, carelessness or deliberate attempts to evade the law, he had very little mercy and no fine phrases.