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Name: CUMBERBATCH, Hugh Charles
Nee: son of Alphonzo Elkin Cumberbatch, aural surgeon, of 80 Portland Place
Birth Date: 4 Apr 1885 Marylebone
Death Date: 26 Apr 1957 Bournemouth
First Date: 1907
Profession: EAP Provincial Administration Service. Inherited a large fortune., incl Hamptworth Lodge. Left £100,000 to Trinity Coll, Oxford - Cumberbatch buildings opened 1966
Area: HBEA 1912 ADC, Sankuri, 1922 DC Kipini Tana River
Married: In Kensington 1912 Florence Maud Hazelwood b. 1891 Thetford
Children: Cecil Charles (21 Nov 1916 Iden, Rye-1998)
Book Reference: Gillett, HBEA, KAD, Hut, EA & Rhodesia, Red 22, Eton, Leader14, Red Book 1912, Gazette
School: Eton 1898-1904; Trinity College Oxford BA 3rd Cl. Mods 1906; 4th Cl. Mod Hist 1908
General Information:
East Africa & Rhodesia - 12/9/57 - Mr Hugh Charles Cumberbatch, a former assistant district commissioner in Kenya, who died last year, has left more than £100,000 to Trinity College Oxford, from which he graduated more than 50 years ago.
Eton - Eton XI 1904
Red Book 1912 - H.C. Cumberbatch - Lamu
Web - The Cumberbatch Building, Trinity College, Oxford - Hugh Charles Cumberbatch was born in 1885 in Marylebone, London. He was the eldest son of the eminent aural surgeon Alphonzo Elkin Cumberbatch FRCS who was born on Bridgetown Barbados 11 April 1847 and of Alice Lucy née Moffatt. Alphonzo and Hugh are descendants of John Edward Cumberbatch the son of a mulatto-slave, Elizabeth, once the property of Lawrence Trent Cumberbatch; and of Julia née Belgrave. Alphonzo's father was John Belgrave Cumberbatch. Lawrence Trent Cumberbatch was a joint owner of St. Nicholas Abbey in St. Peter, Barbados until his death in December 1833. On 3 Feb 1922 and 3 weeks before she died, his mother inherited £200,000 in the will of Col. W. Morrison as did her brother Harold Charles Moffatt. On 23 February 1922, Hugh's mother Alice Lucy née Moffatt died. ………………… In the past year the College has received its largest and most important benefaction since the foundation. Mr Hugh Charles Cumberbatch, of Hamptworth Lodge, near Salisbury, who died in April 1957, left the whole of his estate, valued at over £300,000 to Trinity, apart from a few minor bequests. ……. {more on inherited estate}
Gazette 7/4/1920 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Asst District Commissioner - 22/3/1920
KAD 1922 - Asst. District and Resident Commissioner, Tana River, Kipini
Web Cumberbatch Family Hist Mar 1913 Tana River District, Kenya Acting District Commissioner, Tana River District Occupation 22 Aug 1913 Tana River District, Kenya. Magistrate of the Second Class & Assistant District Commissioner Kipini Occupation. 9 Apr 1920 Tana River District, Kenya. Acting District Commissioner-in-Charge, Tanaland District Occupation.9 Jun 1920 Tana River District, Kenya Magistrate to hold a Subordinate Court of the First Class Residence..25 Apr 1929 Near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
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