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Biographical entries for an unpublished 'East African and Rhodesian Who's Who' compiled by Ferdinand Stephen Joelson: Garnett - Gill, Harold

MSS. Afr. s. 2365/22

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Title

Biographical entries for an unpublished 'East African and Rhodesian Who's Who' compiled by Ferdinand Stephen Joelson: Garnett - Gill, Harold

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MSS. Afr. s. 2365/22

Summary

Name: Garnett, Christopher Bradshaw; Occupation: Deputy Director of Agricultural Department; M.A.; Date of Birth: 1903; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Cambridge; Tanganyika; Nyasaland

Name: Garneys, Eric George; Occupation: Manager; Date of Birth: 1901; Address at time of submitting biographical data: India; Portugal; Azores; Suez; Port Sudan; St. Helena; Zanzibar; E. Africa; Hong Kong; Cape Town; Nairobi, Kenya

Name: Garrad, Robert Milne; Occupation: Land Surveyor; Date of Birth: n. d.; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Livingstone, N. Rhodesia

Name: Garrad, S. R.; Occupation: Auctioneer ; Date of Birth: 1870; Address at time of submitting biographical data: London; Durban; Zululand; Umtali; Sinoia

Name: Garratt, William Lawellyn ; Occupation: Secretary, Department of Mines and Transport; O.B.E.; Date of Birth: n. d.; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Salisbury, S. Rhodesia

Name: Garret, Cuthbert; Occupation: Engine Driver; Date of Birth: 1902; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Yorkshire; Livingstone; N. Rhodesia

Name: Garrett, Charles Cuthbert; Occupation: R.N.R.; Date of Birth: 1876; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Brighton, Sussex; Kenya

Name: Garrod, J. M. B.; Occupation: Med. Officer, N.R.; M.B.; Ch. B.; B.A.O.; Date of Birth: n. d.; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Lusaka, N. Rhodesia

Name: Garvey, John; Occupation: Branch Manager; Date of Birth: 1909; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Kent; Kenya; Ethiopia; Ceylon; India; Nairobi

Name: Garvey, Ronald Herbert; Occupation: Governor and C. in-C.; K.C.M.G.; M.B.E.; M.A.; Date of Birth: 1903; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Boston; Cambridge; Fiji; Nyasaland; British Honduras

Name: Garwood, Albert Wells; Occupation: Probation Officer; Date of Birth: 1914; Address at time of submitting biographical data: London; Birmingham; S. and N. Rhodesia; Altrincham, Cheshire

Name: Gasim, Ibrahim; Occupation: Owner of Omdurman Pharmacy; M.L.A.; Date of Birth: 1908; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Omdurman; Beirut; Sudan

Name: Gasson, Sydney George Haycraft; Occupation: Chief Medical Officer Rhodesia Railways; Date of Birth: 1896; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Kimberley, S. Africa; Cape Town; Edinburgh; Bulawayo

Name: Gater, George Henry ; Occupation: Director of Education; G.C.M.G.; K.C.B.; D.S.O.; M.A.; J.P.; Date of Birth: 1886; Address at time of submitting biographical data: West - End, Southampton; Oxford; France; Gallipoli; Egypt; London; France

Name: Gathani, Bachulal Tribhovan; Occupation: Merchant; Date of Birth: 1908; Address at time of submitting biographical data: India; Nairobi, Kenya

Name: Gauld, Alexander Cram; Occupation: Geodesic Computer; B.Sc.; M.I.L.S.(S.R.); F.R.I.C.S.; Date of Birth: 1910; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Edinburgh; Cape Town; E. Africa; Burma; Salisbury, S. Rhodesia

Name: Gauldie, Robert Douglas; Occupation: Medical Officer; M.B., Ch.B.; C.P.H.; Date of Birth: 1916; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Cape Town; Benchuanaland

Name: Gaunt, James Harold; Occupation: Managing Director; Date of Birth: 1910; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Ayr, Edinburgh, Scotland; Burma; Middle East; E. Africa; Mombasa, Kenya

Name: Gaunt, John; Occupation: Director of African Affairs; Date of Birth: 1905; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Oxford; Mankoya; Livingstone; Lusaka, N. Rhodesia

Name: Gauron, Sidney Frederick; Occupation: A.M.I. Senior Mech. Engineer; Date of Birth: 1915; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Punjab; London; Lusaka, N. Rhodesia

Name: Gavin, Norman David Ian; Occupation: Branch Manager; Date of Birth: 1895; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Glasgow; Cambridge; France; India; Burma; Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika

Name: Gavin, William; Occupation: Dip. Agric.; C.B.E.; M.A.; Date of Birth: 1886; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Edinburgh; Uppingham; Cambridge; Jamaica; West Hoathly, Sussex

Name: Gawler, Alex Edward James; Occupation: Chairman; B.A.; Date of Birth: 1893; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Malaya; Cambridge; Twickenham, Middlesex

Name: Gawthorne, Peter Patrick; Occupation: District Commissioner; Date of Birth: 1919; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Surrey; Singida; Rungwe; Shinyanga, Tanganyika

Name: Gayer, Charles Murray Acworth; Occupation: Director of Public Relations and Social Welfare, Uganda; M.A.; M.L.C.; Date of Birth: 1904 - 1953(?); Address at time of submitting biographical data: Kent; Cambridge; Kampala, Uganda;

Name: Gaymer, W. D.; Occupation: Farmer's Rep. on Cttee. to investigate growing of malting; Date of Birth: n. d.; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Gilgil, Kenya

Name: Gebbie, W. ; Occupation: Headmaster; Date of Birth: n. d.; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Salisbury, S. Rhodesia

Name: Gee, Charles Dalton; Occupation: Farmer; Date of Birth: 1887; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Leicester; Tanganyika; Kiambu, Kenya

Name: Geili, Sheikh el Tayeb Adam; Occupation: Member (Tegale), Sudan Legislative Assembly; M.L.A.; Date of Birth: n. d.; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Tegale, Sudan

Name: Gelfand, Michael; Occupation: Med. Serv.; O.B.E.; M.D.; Ch. B.; M.R.C.P.; D.M.R.; Date of Birth: 1912; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Wynberg, Cape Province; Cape Town; Salisbury, S. Rhodesia

Name: Gellert, Alexander; Occupation: Medical Specialist; Date of Birth: n. d.; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Prague; Nairobi, Kenya

Name: Gelman, Abe; Occupation: Constructural Engineer; Date of Birth: 1892; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia; Congo; Durban, S. Africa

Name: Gelsthorpe, Alfred Morris; Occupation: Bishop in Sudan; D.S.O.; M.A.; L.Th.; D.D.; Date of Birth: 1892; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Notts, England; Canterbury; Durham; London; France; Mesopotamia; Sunderland; Nigeria; Egypt; Sudan

Name: Gelston, R. T. H.; Occupation: Lt.-Col.; Date of Birth: n. d.; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Nairobi, Kenya

Name: Gemmell, J. ; Occupation: Ass. Supt. Of prisons; Date of Birth: 1902; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika; Uganda

Name: Gemmill, William; Occupation: General Man, Witwatersrand Native Labour Assoc. ; F.I.A.; Date of Birth: n. d.; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Salisbury, S. Rhodesia; Glasgow; Geneva

Name: George, Albert Laurence; Occupation: Lt.-Col.; Date of Birth: 1894; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Watford, Herts, England; France; Italy; India; Sudan; Ethiopia; Kongwa, Tanganyika; Sudan

Name: George, Betty; Occupation: Housewife; M.A.; B.A.; Date of Birth: 1922; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Rochester, New York; Moshi, Tanganyika

Name: George, John Benjamin; Occupation: Associate Institute of Current World Affairs; Date of Birth: 1918; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Missouri, U.S.A; Oxford; Burma; China; Moshi, Tanganyika

Name: George, William John Hastings; Occupation: ?; Date of Birth: n. d.; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Sotik, Kenya

Name: Georgiadis, Evan ; Occupation: Civil Engineer; Date of Birth: 1913; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Alexandria; Glasgow; Kampala, Uganda

Name: Gerakos, G.; Occupation: Director Tanganyika Sisal Marketing; Date of Birth: n. d.; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Tanganyika

Name: German, Ronald Ernest ; Occupation: Postmaster General, E. Africa, High Commission; Date of Birth: 1905; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Plymouth, Devon, England; S. Wales; Sudan; London;

Name: Germond, Jean Daniel Amault; Occupation: District Officer; Date of Birth: 1904; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Bechuanaland; Solomon Islands

Name: Germond, Robert Charles; Occupation: Medical Officer; M.D.; M.R.C.S.; Date of Birth: 1897; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Botsabelo; Basutoland

Name: Gersohn, Heyman Edward; Occupation: Dental Surgeon; L.D.S.; R.C.S.; Date of Birth: 1903; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Smithfield; Zastron; Edinburgh; Umtali; Salisbury, S. Rhodesia

Name: Gethin, Peter; Occupation: Col.; Date of Birth: n. d.; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Namangavia Nairobi, Kenya

Name: Geyer, Albertus Lourens; Occupation: Farmer; Ph.D.; Date of Birth: 1894; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Somerset East; Berlin; Cape Twon; London; Barrdale, S. Africa

Name: Gharr, Hammad Abu Shalluka; Occupation: Schoolmaster; Date of Birth: 1921; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Curri; Sudan

Name: Ghersie, Maurice William; Occupation: Dir., Produce Disposal, E.A.; O.B.E.; Date of Birth: n. d.; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Eldoret, Kenya

Name: Ghersie, Stanley George; Occupation: Lt.-Col.; Date of Birth: 1895; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Nairobi, Kenya

Name: Gibb, A. N.; Occupation: Deputy Mayor of Salisbury; Date of Birth: n. d.; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Salisbury, S. Rhodesia

Name: Gibb, Alexander; Occupation: G.B.E.; C.B.; LL.D.; F.R.S.; F.R.S.E.; M.I.C.E.; M.I. Mech. E.; M. Cons. E.; M. Inst. T.; F.Inst.W.; M.I.Chem.E; E.Inst.F.; A.Inst.N.A.; F.R.G.S.; F.G.S.; F.Z.S.; F.S.A.; Date of Birth: 1872; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Skipton, Yorks; London; Singapore; Persia; Turkey; France; Belgium; Canada; Scotland

Name: Gibb, Alistair Monteith; Occupation: Snr. Partner in Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners; Date of Birth: 1901 - 1955; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Cambridge; Iraq; Syria; Lebanon; Cyprus; Kenya

Name: Gibb, Eric James Gordon; Occupation: Shipping Agent; M.C.; Date of Birth: 1895; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Surrey; St. Paul's; Mombasa; East London, S. Africa

Name: Gibbens, Vivian Ellis Maritz; Occupation: Farmer; Date of Birth: 1908; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Orange Free State; S. Rhodesia

Name: Gibbings, Reginald John; Occupation: Dental Surgeon; L.D.S.; R.C.S.; Date of Birth: 19?-1952 ; Address at time of submitting biographical data: London; S. Africa; Salisbury, S. Rhodesia

Name: Gibbon, Geoffrey McKay; Occupation: Medical Officer; Date of Birth: 1896; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Aberdeen; Edinburgh; Uganda

Name: Gibbon, Nathaniel Alcock; Occupation: Deputy Chief Secretary; M.B.E.; M.A.; Date of Birth: 1904; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Waterford, Ireland; Dublin; Bulawayo, Salisbury, S. Rhodesia

Name: Gibbon, Robert Geoffrey; Occupation: Reverend; Rector of Highlands; M.A.; Date of Birth: 1901; Address at time of submitting biographical data: New Barnet, England; Oxford; Bulawayo; Salisbury, S. Rhodesia

Name: Gibbons, Arthur Charles; Occupation: Dir. Anglo-Rhodesian and General Investment; Date of Birth: n. d.; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Bulawayo

Name: Gibbons, G.; Occupation: Senior Forester; Date of Birth: 1896; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Maziori, Kenya

Name: Gibbs, Geoffrey Cokayne; Occupation: Partner in Firm of Anthony Gibbs and Sons; C.M.G.; M.A; J.P.; Date of Birth: 1901; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Oxford; Abingdon-on-Thames, Berks

Name: Gibbs, George Howard; Occupation: Chief Commissioner, Northern Territories; Date of Birth: 1889; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Canada; France; Penhalonga, S. Rhodesia

Name: Gibbs, Humphrey Vicary; Occupation: Landowner, Farmer; Date of Birth: 1902; Address at time of submitting biographical data: London; Cambridge; Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia

Name: Gibbs, Peter Bawtree; Occupation: Commercial Mgr., Metal Pressing Enamelling; Date of Birth: 1903; Address at time of submitting biographical data: London; Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia

Name: Gibril, Hassan; Occupation: M.H.R.; Date of Birth: 1916; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Geneina; Sudan

Name: Gibson, Archdeacon Paul O'Bryen; Occupation: Priest; M.A.; O.B.E.; Date of Birth: 1890; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Cambridge; Egypt; Juba, S. Sudan

Name: Gibson, Gerald Mercier; Occupation: Director, Dept. of Lands and Mines, Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika; Date of Birth: 1902 - 1956; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Cork, Ireland; Dublin; Uganda

Name: Gibson, Gordon; Occupation: Chief Mechanical Engineer; A.M.I.Mech.E., A.M.Inst.T.; M.I.Loco.E.; Date of Birth: 1902; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Nigeria; Tanganyika; Kenya; Uganda

Name: Gibson, John Paul Stewart Ridell; Occupation: Missionary; F.I.A.; M.A.; C.M.S.; Date of Birth: 1880; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Paris; Bath; Cambridge; Ceylon

Name: Gibson, Lawson Murray; Occupation: Director, Teita Concessions; Date of Birth: n. d.; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Kampala, Uganda; Kenya

Name: Gibson, Peter Robert; Occupation: Assistant District Officer; Date of Birth: 1920; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Northam, Devon; Cheltenham; Cambridge; Uganda

Name: Gibson, Ralph; Occupation: Director Standard Bank of South Africa; Date of Birth: n. d.; Address at time of submitting biographical data: E. Africa; New York; London

Name: Gibson, William Laurence; Occupation: Director of Information, Kenya; Date of Birth: 1899; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Middlesex; Transvaal; Canterbury; France; Flanders; Germany; Ireland; U.K.; W. Africa; Kenya; Suffolk

Name: Gichuru, James Samuel; Occupation: Principal; Date of Birth: 1914; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Thogoto; Kampala, Uganda; Kikuyu, Kenya

Name: Giffard, George Godfrey; Occupation: Chief Accountant, Tanganyika; Date of Birth: 1892; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Louth; Tanganyika; Nigeria; Sierra Leone

Name: Giffard, George James; Occupation: G.C.B.; D.S.O.; Col. Comdt.; Date of Birth: 1886; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Surrey; Winchester; E. Africa; Palestine; Transjordan; W. Africa; India; S.-E. Asia

Name: Giffard, Jack; Occupation: Lieut.-Col.; O.B.E.; Farmer; Date of Birth: 1884; Address at time of submitting biographical data: England; Marlborough; France; London

Name: Giffard, John Lawrence; Occupation: Coffee Planter; Date of Birth: 1889; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Englefield Green, Surrey; Bradfield; S. America; France; E. Africa; Palestine; Kiambu, Kenya

Name: Giffard, Vivian St. George; Occupation: N. Rhodesia Police; Date of Birth: 1922; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Kensington, London; Surrey; Dorset; Palestine; Nakaru and Mombasa, Kenya; Lusaka, N. Rhodesia

Name: Gifford, Charles Maurice Elton; Occupation: Chairman and Managing Director; Date of Birth: 1899; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Lincolnshire; Surrey; London; Italy; North Sea; Baltic; Russia; Australia;

Name: Gifford, P. H.; Occupation: Chief Inspector of Schools; O.B.E.; B. Sc. (vict.); F.C.S.; Date of Birth: n. d.; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia

Name: Gikonyo, M.; Occupation: Legislative Council; Date of Birth: n. d.; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Nairobi, Kenya

Name: Gilbert, Barton; Occupation: Gynaecological Surgeon; B.Sc.; M.D.; B.S.; F.R.C.S.; F.R.C.O.G.; Date of Birth: 1908; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Wembley, London, England; Salisbury, S. Rhodesia

Name: Gilbert, Francis Walter; Occupation: Medical Officer; M.D.; M.R.S.; L.R.C.P.; D.P.H.; D.T.M.&H; Date of Birth: 1903; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Durban, S. Africa; London; Ndola, N. Rhodesia

Name: Gilbert, Joseph Trounsell; Occupation: Chief Justice; Date of Birth: 1888; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Bedford; Oxford; Zanzibar; Bermuda

Name: Gilbert, Samuel Moore; Occupation: Coffee Grower; O.B.E.; N.D.A.; Date of Birth: 1892; Address at time of submitting biographical data: London; Nigeria; Trinidad; Mbozi, Mbeya, Tanganyika

Name: Gilchrist, James; Occupation: Auctioneer; Date of Birth: 1901; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Scotland; Salisbury, S. Rhodesia; Kenya; Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia

Name: Gilchrist, Robert Dunipace; Occupation: Land Owner ; Date of Birth: 1872 - 1953; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Lanarkshire; S. Rhodesia; Canada

Name: Giles, A. F.; Occupation: Provincial Admin.; Date of Birth: 1915; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Oxford; Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika

Name: Giles, Charles Malcolm; Occupation: Architect; F.R.I.C.S. (Hon.); Date of Birth: 1889; Address at time of submitting biographical data: London; Lamu, Kenya

Name: Giles, Hilda Margaret; Occupation: Inspector of Schools; B.A.; Date of Birth: 1908; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Lausanne; Paris; Oxford; Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika; Seychelles; London; Cambridge;

Name: Giles, Laurence Cranmore; Occupation: District Officer; Date of Birth: 1909; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Birmingham; Oxford; Nigeria

Name: Giles, Walter Wilfried Edwin; Occupation: Headmaster; M.A.; Dip.Ed.; Date of Birth: 1907; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Barbados; Canterbury; Uganda; Seychelles; Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika; Norfolk

Name: Gilfillan, Robert Clark; Occupation: Chairman; Date of Birth: 1890; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Northampton, Mass., USA; Yale; Nairobi, Kenya

Name: Gilges, W.; Occupation: Medical Officer; M.B.; B.Ch.; Date of Birth: 1906; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Bochum, Germany; N. Rhodesia

Name: Gilks, John Langton; Occupation: Medical Service; C.M.G.; M.R.C.S.; L.R.C.P.; Date of Birth: 1880; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Kenya; Peterfield, Hants

Name: Gill, Benson; Occupation: Medical Officer; L.R.C.P.; L.R.C.S.; L.R.F.P.S.; Date of Birth: n. d.; Address at time of submitting biographical data: Glasgow; Manchester; Salisbury, S. Rhodesia

Name: Gill, Harold Warren; Occupation: B.Sc.; F.R.I.C.; Date of Birth: 1891; Address at time of submitting biographical data: London; Nairobi, Kenya

Date

1949-1957 and n.d. [c.1947-1957]

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box

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Archive of Ferdinand Stephen Joelson (1893-1979), author, editor of East Africa and Rhodesia journal

Papers relating to the compilation of an 'East African and Rhodesian Who's Who' by Ferdinand Stephen Joelson

Biographical entries for an unpublished 'East African and Rhodesian Who's Who' compiled by Ferdinand Stephen Joelson: Garnett - Gill, Harold

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