North - Company appt. 4-2-1889; Set up Company station at Machakos Aug. 1889; Company Supt. Taveta 1891-2; in Taveta area with Carl Peters attempting to establish border with GEA 26-10-1891. Arr. Zanzibar from Mombasa 26-3-1892.

IBEA Co. - Nominal List of British Born Subjects resident in IBEA Territories outside the Sultan's Domain, 30 April 1891 - C.S.L. Bateman, England, Commanding Machakos

Uganda Journal - Vol 23, p.146 - Captain Smith's Expedition to Lake Victoria - January 1891 - " …. Subsequent experience confirms what I wrote you on my way up; that Machako's is in the wrong place and scandalously badly managed. Leith has gone there now, and Bateman, who in my opinion is in every way entirely unreliable, goes to Taveta to cope with Dr. Peters

Uganda Journal - Vol 23, p.146 - Captain Smith's Expedition to Lake Victoria - 1884-6 Captain of Gendarmerie, Congo Free State; 1885 first ascent of R. Kasai; 1889-92 with IBEA Company; August 1889 in charge of Machakos station when Jackson set out for Uganda; 5 August 1892 died in East Africa.

Uganda Journal - Vol 23, p. 175 - George Wilson and Dagoretti Fort by H.B. Thomas. - [after discussion of Wilson's abandonment of Dagoretti at Gedge's instigation] ….. Leith who was met by Gedge near Tsavo on 14 April can hardly have reached Machakos before the end of the month when he seemingly took over charge from A.T. Brown. Ainsworth (pp. 18-19) clearly designates Leith (he speaks in error of "Mr Leigh") as the non-co-operating officer in charge of Machakos who denied ammunition to Wilson. Nevertheless Wilson must have scraped together enough men and supplies to enable him to re-occupy Dagoretti - perhaps with Sudi in company; and here on 13 June Eric Smith found him with 29 men doing his best to re-build the devastated station. Smith counselled Wilson once more to abandon Dagoretti, and together they reached Mombasa on 16 July 1891 - whereupon the Company terminated Wilson's employment. A private letter from Jackson among Gedge's papers dated Lamu 28 August 1891 suggests that his dismissal followed aspersions made "through spite" by Bateman and Leith. It seems clear that it was not in disapproval of Wilson's conduct in the abandonment of Dagoretti.

Nicholls - Sir Frederick jackson's Expedition 1889 - Jackson reached Machakos, where the Kamba people lived, without serious incident. There he made a treaty with the local chief, who clearly failed to understand the implications or he would have never put his mark to it. Latrobe Bateman was left in the village, with orders to build a stockade for IBEAC. As a lone white man unable to summon assistance, he must have been very frightened. ……… [later when Lugard] pushed inland to Machakos, where he found Bateman despised as a drunkard by the local people, who refused to sell food to the caravan. Lugard settled the disputes and pushed on across the Athi plains ….. [Dagoretti fort] Wilson was visited in January 1891 by Captain Eric Smith, of the 1st Life Guards, a man sent inland by IBEAC to explore a route for a possible railway. It may have been the behaviour of some of the men in Smith's caravan which poisoned relations with the local Kikuyu, for on 30 March Wilson felt it prudent to retire from Dagoretti fort, a wise move as the Kikuyu then overrran and burnt it. When new supplies arrived with a caravan led by George Leith, who took over Machakos from Bateman, Wilson reoccupied Dagoretti but soon left it and joined Smith on the way back to the coast. There he was dismissed from the Company - according to Ernest Gedge, for 'seduction, and flogging a man to death' on the evil report of the blackguards Leith and Bateman.

North - 'Bwana Katembo' (hard drinker); Engagement terminated by Company following many complaints about his treatment of natives and offered passage to England or Australia but preferred to stay in East Africa, end of appt Feb 1892; employed to run a Bishop Tucker caravan to Uganda but died before it left coast. Buried at Kisauni

North - former Capt. gendarmerie Congo Free State; dep. Mombasa April 1889 with 104 loads for Emin Pasha relief column but only got to Ndi. Signed treaty with Ukambani 4-8-1899

Ancestry says he died 5 Aug 1892 in Carlisle, Cumberland and is buried in Carlisle cemetery. He is in Channel Is 1861 and 1871 census. He seemed to be living in Carlisle in Jan 1889?