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Name: SPEKE, Augustus Grant

Nee: nephew of John Hanning Speke, son of Rev Benjamin Speke of Washfield and Dowlish Wake

Birth Date: 1872 Dowlish Wake, Somerset, bapt. 18 Aug

Death Date: 1922 East Africa

Nationality: British

First Date: 1903

Last Date: 1922

Profession: Asst. Collector, Uganda Protectorate, 1903.

Area: Wadelai, Gondokoro, Kakumiro

Book Reference: EAHB 1905, North, Drumkey, EAHB 1906, Burke, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907, Red 31, Hut, Red 22

School: Uppingham and Jesus College Cambridge

General Information:

North - Appt. 3rd Class Magistrate 25/8/1903; Entebbe Dec 1903; Temporary appt. as Asst. Collector Kampala 5/3/1904; Asst. Collector, Wadelai, seriously ill with blackwater fever 13/6/1904; Appt. Asst. Collector Masindi 14/8/1904; To be transferred from Masindi to Fort Portal 21/2/1905; To be moved from Toro to be Asst. Collector Hoima 6/7/1905
Red 22 - A. Speke, Kampala
Cambridge Univ. Alumni pens. (age 19) at JESUS, Oct. 1892. S. of the Rev. B[enjamin] (Christ Church, Oxford, 1849), of Dowlish-Wake, Somerset. [B. 1873.] School, Uppingham. Matric. Michs. 1892; B.A. 1895. Died in East Africa in 1922. (Burke, L.G.)

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