Harry R. ('Arm Swinger' or Bwana Kongoni) Tate

Harry R. ('Arm Swinger' or Bwana Kongoni) Tate
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Residence	Hampton Court Palace [1901] Kitsia, via Mombasa, British East Africa [1903, 1915] Mombasa, British East Africa [1909] Church House, Shillingstone, Dorset [address on letter from him in photo collection]
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow 1901 Local Correspondent 1911 left 1911 asked to resign and become Local Correspondent 1915 last listed elected_AI 1901.10.29 societies East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society African Society

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House Notes

proposed 1901.10.15
1908.02.25 It was resolved to give Mr C. Hayavadana Rao warning that unless his arrears were paid he would be struck off, to suspend Messrs Barclay, Collyer and Tate and to approach the proposers of Messrs Duff and Temple.
1909.02.09 Members more than three years in arrears. It was resolved that Messrs C.L. Temple and H.R. Tate should be warned; that Mr W.S. Barclay should be put into the hands of the LAPT and that Messrs C.T. Collyer, Creighton Duff and Hayavadana Rao should be struck off.
1910.02.08 ... Messrs H.R. Tate, R.B.S. Sewell, R.C. Swinhoe, E. Giblin and E.F. Martin be suspended for one year, pending enquiries.
1910.04.26 A letter was read from Mr H.R. Tate regarding his arrears of subscription and questioning his liability for subscriptions when he had not received the Journal. He also expressed his desire to continue his Fellowship and to receive Man instead of the Journal.
1911.02.07 It was resolved that Messrs E.F. Martin, Paul Radin, R.B.S. Sewell and R.C.J. Swinhoe be struck off the list of Fellows. That Capt. Pope Hennessey be threatened with expulsion. That Messrs F. Eyles, Hewitt, Oman Hadji Johari, E.W. Elkington and Sheldon Ridge be suspended for one year. That Prof. Juettner be threatened with suspension for a year. And that Mr H.R. Tate be asked to pay his arrears and resign, and then be appointed a Local Correspondent

Notes From Elsewhere

District Commissioner Kiambu
harry r. tate

H.R. Tate, educated at Sherborne, had ranched in North Dakota and had been in business in London for two years ........ Tate in 1902 covered a thousand miles in three months – and wore out two pairs of boots – pursuing European dacoits. [from STUDIES IN DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION IN THE EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE (1895-1918) By T.H.R. Cashmore]

Publications

External Publications

H.R. Tate, Some Early Reminiscences of a Transport Officer: Ashanti Field Force and Ogaden Punitive Force, in Journal of the Royal African Society, Vol 41, No. 163, April 1942

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