Charles William Hobley

Charles William Hobley CMG
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Born	1867
Died	1947
Residence	Uganda [1901] Kisumu, British East Africa [1905] Nairobi, British East Africa [1911] Mombasa, British East Africa [1913] The Chale, High View Road, Sidcup, Kent [1923] Woodfield, Quarry Road, Oxted, Surrey [1937]
Occupation	civil service administrative
Society Membership membership Local Correspondent from 1901 Ordinary Fellow from 1923 elected_AI 1901.11.12 1923 societies Royal Geographical Society Geological Society Institution of Civil Engineers

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RAI Council 1924 Member
RAI Council 1925 Member
RAI Council 1926 Member
RAI Council 1931-32 Member
RAI Council 1932-33 Member

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Charles William Hobley, CMG (b. Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England in 1867; d. Oxted, Surrey on 31 March 1947) — known as C. W. Hobley — was a pioneering British Colonial administrator in Kenya. He served the Colonial Service in Kenya from 1894 until his retirement in 1921 and published a number of monographs on a variety of subjects.

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Hobley, C.W., "Eastern Uganda, an Ethnological Survey" Anthrop. Inst., Occasional Papers, No. I, London, 1902. Hobley, C.W., 1903, "Notes Concerning the Eldorobo of Mau, East Africa", Man, 3.17:33-35.
Hobley, Charles William, Ethnology of Akamba and other East African Tribes, Cambridge: The University Press, 1910; Reprinted 1971, London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd. (Series: Cass Library of African Studies: General Studies No. 96).
Hobley, C.W., 1918, "The Lubwa and Elgon Caves, with some remarks on their origin and the geology of the region", Journal of East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society, v. 13, p. 280.
Hobley, Charles William, Bantu Beliefs and Magic with Particular Reference to the Kikuyu and Kamba Tribes of Kenya Colony, Together with Some Reflections on East Africa After the War (1922, Reprinted 1938, New York: Barnes & Noble; Reprinted 1967, London: Cass; Reprinted 1992, London: H. F. & G. Witherby).
Hobley, C.W., Kenya: From Chartered Company to Crown Colony, Thirty Years of Exploration and Administration in British East Africa (1929; Reprinted 1970, London: Frank Cass, with new introduction).
Hobley, C.W., "Soil Erosion: A Problem in Human Geography", A Paper Read at the Afternoon Meeting of the [?Royal Geographical] Society on 8 May 1933, Geographical Review 82 (1933): 139-46. Hobley, C.W., "The Preservation of Wild Life in the Empire", Afr Aff (Lond), 1935, XXXIV: 403-407.
Hobley, C.W., "Inland Waters of Africa", Afr Aff (Lond), 1935, XXXIV: 469-470.

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