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Name: FOAKER, Frederic George
Birth Date: 1863 Thorpe le Soken, Essex
Death Date: 19.8.1912 Chelsea
Nationality: British
First Date: 1889
Profession: Attached to the IBEA Co. in 1889, he was in charge of the Caravan and Transport party that took Sir Gerald Portal to Uganda on his mission there in 1893. An official with the Uganda Administration in 1894, a Collector EAP and the Sub-Commissioner in 1902
Area: Uganda, HBEA 1912 - DC Mombasa; Guaso Masa, Ravine, Port Victoria, Mumia's
Married: In London 1893 Grace Henrietta Mary Latham b. 1860, d. London 22.5.1945
Book Reference: Gillett, HBEA, Hobley, Permanent Way, Adventurers, Kenya Diary, Fitzgerald, Matson, EAHB 1905, EAS, North, EA Diary 1903, Drumkey, Web, IBEA, UJ, EAHB 1906, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907, Red Book 1912
School: United Services College, Westward Ho! & King's College, London
General Information:
Awarded the IBEA Co. Medal, Uganda 1897-98.
Hobley - 1894 - A large caravan, conducted by the famous James Martin, was then fitting out, in which the late R.J.D. Macallister and F.J. Foaker were fellow travellers. ............. 1896 - (after punitive expedition against Nandi) An administrative station was founded in the Nandi country and Mr Foaker was placed in charge.
Permanent Way - Attached by the Company to the Railway Survey in 1891
Adventurers - 1902? - Ravine ........ well entertained by Mr & Mrs Foaker, who were in charge of the Government station.
Kenya Diary - May 1905 - We arrived at 11 a.m. at the Ravine Station, where we lunched with Jack Foaker and his wife, both of whom I had met before. He is the Administrative officer in charge .....…..
Matson - joined the Company on 10/10/1889; caravan leader, railway survey 1891-2 and Portal's commission 1893-4; returned to Kampala Jan 1895 as 2nd Class assistant and served in Bunyoro and Busoga before the 1895 Nandi expedition. ..... 1897 - 2nd Nandi expedition - Foaker was accompanied by his wife the first 'official' lady to enter the Protectorate (Ravine).
EAHB 1905 - Collector, Eldama Ravine. IBEA Co. General Africa Staff - appointed 10th October 1889.
IBEA Co. Oct. 1889 to March 1894; 2nd Class Asst., Uganda Aug. 31st 1894; Collector, EAP, April 1st 1902; IBEA Co. Medal, Uganda 1897-98.
The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa (Mr & Mrs Foaker)
North - Transport Dept. IBEA Co.; Taveta as Company Supt. early 1891; attached to the Maj. J.R.L. Macdonald Uganda Railway survey which departed Mombasa 16/12/1891, at Mazeras end of 1892; Kikuyu 8/8/1892 returning to coast; no longer with IBEA Co. when he dep. Zanzibar with 200 porters for the Sir Gerald Portal "Special British Mission" to Uganda.; dep. Mombasa for Uganda as caravan leader for Portal Dec 1892; Appt. 2nd Class Asst. UP 31/8/1894, Transport Dept.;in charge of Guaso Masa station 3/3/1896; returned from leave with wife arr. Ravine 26/5/1897; Collector of Ravine with wife June 1897; Port Victoria Oct. 1898; Collector at Mumia's May 1901, Oct. 1901; Listed as Collector, Ravine 1-4-1904; ' ….. unfortunately lacking in energy or initiative' (Ternan, FO 2)
Drumkey 1909 - DC Ukamba
Web - Warriors in Heart of Darkness by Dennis Bishop - description of Foaker's part in the Nandi expedition of 1895
IBEA Co. - Nominal List of British Born Subjects resident in IBEA Territories within the Sultan's Domain, 30 April 1891 - F.G. Foaker, England, In charge Takaungu Dist.
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
EA Diary 1903 - Imperial British East Africa Company Oct 1889 to March 1894; Imperial British East Africa Co. Medal, Uganda 1897-98
Red Book 1912 - F.G. Foaker - Mombasa - Seyidie Province - DC at Mombasa
Gazette 15/10/1912 - Obituary - His Excellency the Governor deeply regrets to announce the death on August 19th last of Frederic George Foaker, late District Commissioner. Mr Foaker entered the service of the Uganda Protectorate in 1894 having previously been in the employment of the IBEA Co. since 1889. He was transferred to East Africa in 1902. He was thus one of the most senior administrative officials in the service and his ripe experience was of particular value in a Magisterial capacity the patient and exhaustive manner in which he dealt with native cases being specially noticeable.