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Name: HADDON, Ernest Balfour MA, FRAI
Birth Date: 26.9.1882 Kingstown, Dublin
Death Date: 6 9.1976 Cambridge
First Date: 1905
Profession: Joined Uganda Administration, DC 1912, PC 1923, retired 1937
Area: Uganda
Married: Yes
Children: Robert Cort (12 Mar 1943 Sheffield-21 Apr 2021 USA)
Book Reference: Gillett, Red 25, Drumkey, EAHB 1906, North, EAHB 1907, Richardson
School: Giggleswick School and Christ's College, Cambridge
General Information:
Drumkey 1909 - Asst. Collector, UP, March 18th 1905
North - From Cambridge; arr. Mombasa from England 21-5-1905; Firearm registered, Mombasa 23-5-1905; dep. Mombasa for Uganda 26-5-1905; Bird Licence, Entebbe 13-6-1905; to be Asst Collector Kampala 6-7-1905
Red 25 - Asst. Collector, Uganda 1905, DC, Uganda 1912
Cambridge Univ. Alumni pens. at CHRIST'S, Sept. 29, 1900. S. of Alfred Cort (1875). B. [Sept. 26, 1882], at Kingstown, Co. Dublin. Schools, Perse, Cambridge and Giggleswick. Matric. Michs. 1901; B.A. 1904; M.A. 1911; diploma in Anthropology, 1912. Appointed Assistant Collector, Uganda Protectorate, E. Africa, 1905; District Commissioner in charge of ‘sleeping sickness’ areas. During [p.185] Great War, 1914-19, Hon. Capt. in Uganda Carrier Corps. Retired. Returned to Africa on outbreak of World War, and acted as Postal Censor in Uganda, 1939-45. Of 3 Cranmer Rd, Cambridge, in 1947. (Giggleswick Sch. Reg.; Peile, II. 843.)
Had moved to Cambridge by 1939 (electoral register - no wife with him)