Papers of Ernest Gedge 1890-1929

Jackson, Frederick John, 1860-1929

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Gedge, Ernest

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Ernest Gedge (1862-1935) was born in Ludborough, Lincolnshire, England. When he was 17 years old he went to Assam in India to work as an assistant manager on a tea estate. He left India in 1888 when he joined the Imperial British East Africa Company (IBEAC). In 1889, Gedge assisted Sir Frederick Jackson when the latter led the IBEAC pioneer caravan into Uganda. When Sir Frederick Lugard arrived in Uganda, in 1891, Gedge voluntarily placed himself under his command. Durin...

East African Estates Limited

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Imperial British East Africa Company

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Gedge Ernest 1862-1935

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Great Britain Colonial Administrative Service

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Lugard, F. D. (Frederick Dealtry), Sir, 1858-1945

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Frederick John Dealtry Lugard (1858-1945), soldier, administrator and author was born in Madras, India but raised at Worcester and educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Entering the Army, he received his commission in 1878 in the 9th Foot (the Norfolk Regiment), joining the second batallion in India. In 1884 he secured secondment to the Military Transport Service, which was dispatched the following year to support the campaign for the relief of Khartoum in the Sudan. Fo...