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Name: GIBBONS, Archibald
Birth Date: 3 Oct 1879 Bow, London
Death Date: 8 May 1943 London
Nationality: British
First Date: 1900
Profession: Chief Accountant, Uganda Railway, and a well known figure in Nairobi
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Marylebone 1936 Edith Frances Chambers b. 27 Feb 1899, d. 11 Apr 1944 London
Book Reference: Gillett, Cuckoo, EAHB 1905, North, Drumkey, EAHB 1906, Harmony, Gazette, EAHB 1907
General Information:
North - Uganda Railway - Travelling Insp. Of Accounts
Drumkey 1909 - Railway Dept. - Accounts Dept. - Travelling Inspector of Accounts - 1900
Member of Lodge Harmony - Initiated 3/12/06, age 27, Accts. Dept. Uganda Railway
Gazette - 17/12/1902 - Plague compensation after bubonic plague in March 1902 - A. Gibbons - Rs 90
North - Railway appt. 27-12-1900; stock verifier, Chief Accountant's Office May 1902; Stock Verifier 1-4-1903; returned to Mombasa from Nairobi 'staying some time' (EAS) 16-5-1903; Travelling Inspector of Accounts 1904; Member of the Railway Section of he EAP Volunteer Reserve June 1905
Cuckoo - mentions a J. Gibbons of the Uganda Railway as being a jockey at the 2nd race meeting in Nbi., 1904.
Freemason, Nairobi 1906
1939 England and Wales Register living with wife in St Pancras, as accountant, retired
Also worked in Nigeria