Ainsworth - 1914 - on a tour of Lumbwa - 'Dobbs, the DC and his wife were both very popular with the Europeans and the native people.'  

Perham - Irishman, very simple in his manner, shy and unassuming.

Debrett - was Provincial Commissioner Kenya Colony 1925-31

KAD 1922 - District and Resident Commissioner and Resident Magistrate, Kericho

Red 22 - President, The Kericho Club

Dominion - 1930 - Nominated Official member of Legco

Dominion - Senior Provincial Commissioner, 1st Class - 1930

Nicholls - Archdeacon W.E. Owen, was an outspoken opponent of white settlement as well as a thorn in the flesh of his own colleagues. Owen was loathed by C.M. Dobbs, PC of Nyanza, who reckoned he put words into the mouths of Africans.

EAHB 1907 - Sub-Collector - Kisumu

Hut - BEADOC at Kericho - 'C.M. Dobbs, the local District Commissioner, organised parties of government porters to clear the bush on Beadoc's land, carrying in members' baggage, and pitch tents for them. This was just the start of Government aid to Beadoc ………….. More concrete and probably more useful, help was given by the District Commissioner's wife, who baked enough bread to keep the first Beadoc party from starving.'

Red Book 1912 - C.M. Dobbs - Kisii - Kisumu Province - DC at Kericho

Gazette - 20/7/1921 - Register of Voters - Lake Area - Cecil Moore Dobbs - District Commissioner - Kericho and Mrs Marion Watson Dobbs - Married woman - Kericho

Ainsworth - 1910 - Asst. DC - Kericho.

Gethin - PC at Kisumu in 1925 & still in 1929.

KAD 1922 - Committee Member, Kericho Sports Club

Gazette - 5/8/1925 - Voters Register - Kenya - Delete - Cecil Moore Dobbs, Civil Servant PO Meru and Marion Watson Dobbs, Married woman PO Meru

Redford Grove cemetery, Co. Wicklow, says he d. 5 July.

Eric Dutton, The Night of the Hyena, microfilm, Bodleian Library  He wore a pair of steel spectacles done up with sealing wax and a very old waterproof and a stained and battered soft hat. He was a silent man, a prisoner of the monosyllable.

M.W. Dobbs, 'Recollections of Kenya 1906-1931', Bodleian Library Mss Afr.s.504 He was a tall thin Irishman, appointed assistant collector BEA Kisumu in 1906 where there were 16 European inhabitants. In 1908 he moved to Kisii. June 1911 left Kisii for Lumbwa. He erected bridges and encouraged maize growing so famine seasons came to an end. Encouraged the planting of trees, introduced Rhode Island Red cocks, so there were finer fowls and bigger eggs. Then sent to Mombasa as Resident Commissioner - fine two-storey house with a tower and on its left was the Portuguese fort. 1923 riot in Mombasa when night soil carts were blocked on the road outside the mosque by praying Muslims. HMS Colombo and HMS Cairo entered Mombasa two months later as a warning to up country politicians and settlers who were planning rebellion. The European hospital had no operating theatre so his wife had her appendix out on a table in the waiting room. Then appointed DC in Meru. The location was dominated by Mount Kenya; white ants and jiggers were a pest. The KAR had a post there and there was a Methodist mission run by Hopkins. Young and Ayre had a saw- mill, Ayre being a white hunter. There were also two Italian missions in the district.

1924 he left for Kiambu, a difficult station to run because of the settlers.

1925 became Senior Commissioner.

Mar 1926 became Senior Comm. Nyanza Province, at Kisumu.

1928 became Acting Chief Native Commissioner, at Nairobi.

1930 Back to Kisumu. Airmen and Margery Perham descended.

11 Mar 1931 left Kisumu for the last time.