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Name: COOTE, John Methuen OBE

Nee: son of Sir Algernon Charles Plumptre Coote 12th Bt

Birth Date: 13.3.1878 Cambridge

Death Date: 4.10.1967 Chelsea

First Date: 1901

Profession: Official at Mbale in 1901, DC

Area: Entebbe

Married: In Montreal 24 Sep 1912 Leonore Wray Trench b. 3 Sep 1885 Kenmare, Co. Kerry, d. 7 June 1969 Stepney, London

Children: Joanna Frances (Montreal 6 Aug 1913-2003); Diana Jean (Montreal 14 Nov 1914-2004)

Book Reference: Adventurers, Drumkey, UJ, Gazette, North, Medals, EAHB 1907, LG, Peerage

General Information:

Drumkey 1909 - Asst. Collector, U.P., Nov 1905.
Uganda Journal - Vol 20 (1956), 105 - The Kivu Mission, 1909-10 by J.M. Coote - I got back to Uganda from European leave towards the end of December 1908 and was posted for a second tour to the old Bukedi District. Almost at once my District Commissioner, Ormsby, died, and I had to take charge at Mbale in his place. It was at Mbale at the end of May 1909 that I received an urgent summons by runner (no telegraph lines or telephone in those blissful days!) to report at Entebbe. I bicycled through to Jinja at speed (2-4 June), was picked up there by the Government steamer, and taken to Entebbe where Boyle was at the time Chief Secretary, Stanley Tomkins having just become Acting Governor on Sir Hesketh Bell's departure. I was told that I was to go as Political Officer in charge of a mixed force of Sikhs, KAR and Police whom I would find awaiting me at Mbarara, and was to establish a post on Lake Kivu and administer the surrounding district. ……….. [argument between us, the Belgians and the Germans] John Methuen Coote. Uganda Administration from 24 November 1905; District Officer 1909; resigned 2 January 1912. For a while in 1917 during the German East Africa campaign he was Liaison Officer with the Belgians following the occupation of Tabora.
Gazette - 6/10/15 - appt. Political Officer, S. Kavirondo
Medals - East African Political Department - EA Unattached List, Honorary Lieutenant
EAHB 1907 - John Mathew Coote - Asst. Collector, Uganda Protectorate Nov 1905
London Gazette - 18 Nov 1918 - OBE for distinguished service in connection with military operations in East Africa - Hon. Major John Methuen Coote, Political Department
Ancestry, Ireland Visitation

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