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Name: WARING, Edward Lamplugh Lennon

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Birth Date: 8 Aug 1874 Herne Hill, London

Death Date: 31 Jan 1909 suicide or accident at Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford

Nationality: British

First Date: 1900

Profession: Appointed Asst. Engineer, Uganda Railway in 1900, Asst Chief Surveyor and Land Officer of EAP in 1903

Book Reference: Gillett, EAHB 1905, North, EA Diary 1903, Drumkey, EAHB 1906, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907, Gazette

School: St Paul's School & Crystal Palace Engineering School

General Information:

EAHB 1905 - Hydraulic Engineering Co.'s Shops, Chester, 1893; Chief Assistant Engineer to Messrs. P.W. and C.S. meik, Westminster 1894-1900; Port Talbot Railways and Docks Co.; Seaham Harbour Works; Burntisland Harbour; Hebburn Graving Dock; Assistant Engineer, Uganda Railway, 1900; Asst. Chief Surveyor, EAP, July 23rd 1903.
North - From Richmond, Surrey; UK Appt. as Junior Asst. Engineer 5/10/1900; Travelling on trolley near Fort Ternan with James Baass when it crashed into a train & Baass was killed 20/3/1902; Land Grant application 14/12/1903 Kikuyu Road; 1905 Asst. Chief Surveyor, Nairobi; Listed as member of the Nairobi Mounted Section of the EAP Volunteer Reserve June 1905; Transferred from Survey Dept. back to Railway, Asst. Engineer 27/9/1905
Drumkey 1909 - Survey Department - Cadastral Survey - Deputy Director
Gazette - 15/1/1906 - Member of Nairobi Township Committee - 1906
North - Junior Asst. Engineer; arr. Mombasa 21/11/1900; Appt. Asst. in Survey Dept. EAP 27/7/1903; Nairobi 18/9/1903. Assumed to have shot himself and fallen into sea - gun found with one barrel discharged but no body.
1908 -ill at Nairobi 'queer in his head'.
Blue Book 1908-9 appt. 1 Apr 1906 Dep. Director of Surveys, Cadastral Branch
St Michael and All Angels Church, Bedford Perk, London W4, info from David Beresford: 'In the All Souls Chapel of our church, built in 1909, is a window dedicated to Edward Waring, commissioned and donated by his family and designed and made by John HW Bonnor (1875-1917). The lower panels show the risen Jesus in the garden, with S. Mary Magdalene on his left.  The complex and in parts poorly discernible inscription, shows, on the left panel, the saint addressing Christ in Aramaic: “Rabboni”, and, above,  the words “For Love is stronger than Death : many waters cannot quench Love, neither can the floods drown it” ( Song of Solomon 8:6-7)On the right panel with the resurrected Christ  is the dedication: To the greater Glory of God and in memory of Edward LL Waring died February 1909.
Western Chronicle 12 Feb 1909 Coroner's report: The body of Mr Edward Lang Waring, engineer, of Priory Road, Bedford Park, who left the house where he was staying in Wexford on January 31st to go wild duck shooting, has been recovered from the sea at Kelmore Quay, Wexford County. His gun had previously been found with one barrel discharged and the other at full-cock. There was a gunshot  wound under his right ear. At the inquest on Tuesday evidence was given that Mr Waring had no trouble, financial or other. The coroner said he probably slipped on the rocks, the gun being thus discharged. The jury found that death was caused by an accidental gunshot.
Daily Mirror 5 Feb 1909 It is now certain that Mr E.L. Waring, engineer, of Bedford Park, Chiswick, late Director of Surveys in East Africa, who has been missing since last Sunday, has met his death either through an accident with his gun or by drowning. He was visiting an uncle at Kelmore Quay (Co. Wexford), and last Sunday went to a point named Patrick Bridge to shoot wild duck. Since then he has not been found. A reef of rocks runs out at Patrick Bridge, and on this reef his gun, with one barrel discharged, has been found. The ground there is covered with large slippery boulders, exposed only at low tide, and from these, it is thought, he may have slipped and been carried away by the tide.
Irish Times 6 Feb 1909 The accounts which have appeared in the press with regard to the disappearance of an English gentleman at Kilmore Quay, County Wexford, on Sunday morning last, have been in some respects incorrect. Your correspondent has been requested by the friends of the young gentleman, who, it is believed, has lost his life, to publish the correct details. Kilmore is a fishing village on the Atlantic Coast, which provides attractions in the shape of shooting and yachting. As a health resort it is recommended for those who can stand the vigour of the western gale. Mr C.D. Lennon of London has been living at Kilmore for some time for the benefit of his health. His nephew, Mr Edward Lang Waring, had come to Ireland to spend a holiday with his uncle. The young gentleman was a railway engineer, and had been in Uganda. He intended to leave on Monday to take up the post of Resident Harbour Engineer at Kirkcaldy. On Sunday morning he was desirous of shooting some duck to bring back to his London friends, and made his way along a perilous ridge of rock, known as St Patrick's Bridge, which is supposed to stretch from Kilmore Quay to the Saltee Islands, and which is usually covered by the flowing tide. On his way to the fowling place Mr Waring met an old sportsman, whom he asked to accompany him, but who declined to do so. What really happened can only be conjectured. Mr Waring's gun was found in a rocky ledge half a mile out at sea. It is supposed that in trying to reach a bird which he had shot he ventured out of his depth, and was drowned. Search parties have been out, whenever possible, since. It is only two months since Mr Waring returned from Uganda. He had served 10 years there on the government railway. He was on the threshold of a very promising career, and the utmost sympathy has been extended by the people of Kilmore and of Wexford County to his relatives.

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