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Name: WALKER, Edward Eaton
Birth Date: 1878 Chaddesden, Derbyshire
Death Date: 1.3.1903 Kisumu, erisypelas
First Date: 1902
Last Date: 1903
Profession: Geologist. Officer of IBEA Co. who served in EA as geologist
Area: Kisumu
Married: Sarah
Book Reference: EAHB 1905, North, EA Diary 1903, EAHB 1906, Gazette, Nicholls, EAHB 1904
School: Trinity Coll, Cambridge
General Information:
Gazette - 15/4/1902 - Mr A. Whyte has been appointed to be Director of Agriculture in the EA Protectorate and Mr E.E. Walker to be Geologist to the East Africa Protectorate.
Nicholls - the government geologist, Edward Eaton Walker, [died] of an infected mosquito bite. ..
Gazette - Issued with Bird Licence at Mombasa during semester ending 30/6/1902 - E.E. Walker
North - Appt. Asst. Geologist EAP 10/3/1901; arr. Mombasa from Zanzibar 3/4/1902; arr. Kisumu 24/1/1903; d. 1/3/1903 Kisumu, erysipelas EA Diary 1903 - Geologist, EA Protectorate 1902
Gazette - 15-3-1903 - It is with extreme regret that we have to announce the death of Mr E.E. Walker, Geologist of the East Africa Protectorate. Mr Walker died of Erysipelas on Sunday the 1st inst. At Kisumu.
Mr Walker was appointed Geologist on the 10th March 1902. Since then he visited many parts of the East Africa Protectorate and worked conscientiously and indefatigably in the exercise of his duties. His untimely death is a loss to his profession and to the Government he was serving.