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Name: WHITEHEAD, Richard
Birth Date: 1871 Maidstone
Nationality: British
First Date: 1897
Last Date: 1901
Profession: Officer of IBEA Co. who served in EA as Assistant Collector - resigned from the service
Area: 1899 Takaungu, Hut 1909 Kariandus, Gilgil, Drumkey - Elburgon ???
Book Reference: EAHB 1905, Hut, Drumkey, EAHB 1906, Nicholls, North, EA Diary 1902, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907
General Information:
North - From Maidstone, Kent; Appt. Asst. Collector EAP 7/5/1897; Asst. Collector Taveta Oct. 1897, Feb 1898; Tsavo at 3/3/1898; Asst. Collector at Ndi June 1899; Asst. Collector at Takaungu Dec 1899; took over as Collector Nairobi 16/4/1900; moved from Nairobi to Rabai 27/7/1900; Rabai Feb 1901; resigned 6/11/1901, ill; 'Not fit for further service in EA - 'mental depression and enlargement of the spleen' (FO 2) 1/10/1901; 'Met young Whitehead at Voi, drunk as usual' (Cooper, RH), 24/5/1899
Nicholls - In 1898 J.H. Patterson, engaged in constructing the railway, entered in his diary: 'Sleep in same hut as Whitehead [Richard] [the District Officer at Ndi] and his temporary Swahili wife.'
EA Diary 1902 - Listed as Assistant District Officer