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Name: FAZAN, Sidney Herbert CMG, CBE (Brig.)
Birth Date: 27 June 1888 London
Death Date: 14 Feb 1979 Bexhill, Sussex
First Date: 1911 (Colonial); 1905 (Hut)
Last Date: 1964
Profession: Initially a Cadet in EAP Administration, he served in Nyanza Province 1912-15, Turkana 1916, Coast 1917-23, Machakos 1924-28 and Kikuyu 1928-32. He was Secretary of the Carter Land Commission 1932-33. RH s.1277 - at Kisii in 1915
Area: All over Kenya. HBEA 1912 ADC, Kisumu, Kisii, Limuru, 1925 Machakos, 1930 Kiambu
Married: 1. In Kensington 1924 Sylvia Hook b. 21 Nov 1897 Frencham, Surrey, d. 1996 West Sussex (dau of Bryan Hook) (div. 1946, she later m. Edmund George Arkwright Atkinson 1903-1992); 2. In Westminster 1949 Phyllis Patricia Jeffery b. 26 July 1912 Northumberland, d. 29 Mar 2004 Torbay
Children: 1. Stephen Charles B. (28 Sep 1932 Churt-1988 Hastings); Anthea (Venning) (12 Jan 1927 Totnes-6 Oct 2008 Croydon); Eleanor Henta (Myers) (29 May 1929 Kenya-20 Jan 2024 UK); Marion Valentine (Clarke) (31 May 1934 Wimbledon); Juliet (McMaster) (1937) 2. Jeffery Herbert (1950-28 Nov 1984 road accident, Transkei); 1 dau.
Author: Colonial Kenya Observed
Book Reference: Who's Who, Gillett, HBEA, Staff 39, EAWL, Staff 53, Perham, White African, Tignor, Debrett, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Colonial, Red 22, O&C, Dominion, Nicholls, Foster, Leader14, Telegraph, Beck, Childhood, Red Book 1912, Gazette, Red 19
War Service: WW1 - EA Campaign. WW2 - Burma & Palestine with KAR
School: Epsom College & Christ Church, Oxford 1907-11, BA (Oxon)
General Information:
Appointed OBE in 1931 and CBE in 1934. Provincial Commissioner, Nyanza, 1936-42, then Liaison Officer, with the rank of Brigadier, between EA Governments and EA forces serving overseas, 1943-46 in Middle East, Burma, Ceylon and Madagascar, he was awarded the CMG in 1946. A Liaison Officer, Government Structure, British Element, Germany 1946-48, he returned to Kenya in 1949 where he was Defence Secretary 1949-51 and Executive Officer and Member of Mau Mau Detainee Appeal Tribunal from 1952-55. A Foundation Member of Kenya Kongonis Cricket Club, he retired to Limuru. His daughter Valentine married Hugh Clark, a farmer in Eldoret District.
Staff 39 - Appointed PC Kisumu 1936. Originally Asst. DC 1911.
Letter from Mrs Anthea Venning (daughter) - " ..... one of his classic remarks when had up by the police for driving into a lamp post - "What a damn silly place to put a lamp post!""
Source - form - Gillian Fazan (daughter)
Staff 53 - Defence Secretary, Kenya. Originally Asst. Dist. Com. 1919
Perham - 1929 - Kiambu - He is an important, anthropologically-minded and able DC in charge of this key Kikuyu district. - beautiful, delicate Mrs Fazan, with her pale blue eyes and pale gold hair ...... I heard afterwards that she was not well enough to be driven by her husband. His method was simple and expeditious, if not very reassuring. He simply set his foot on the accelerator until the Chevrolet reached its limit of 40 to 45 miles per hour, kept his foot there and went straight forward. The chasms in the road that I always so carefully skirt, he simply jumped.
Tignor - DC Machakos in 1925 & 1927. DC Kiambu in 1929-1931.
Debrett - was Provincial Commissioner, Kenya 1936-42 and a MLC 1939-42; seconded as liaison officer between EA Governments and EA Forces serving overseas 1943-46; served with Control Commn., Germany 1946-48
KAD 1922 - District and Resident Commissioner and Resident Magistrate, Kisumu
Hut - Founder Kenya Kongonis
Dominion - District Officer - 1930
Nicholls - The witty and rather wicked Daphne Moore (her private comments on others were always funny but rather cruel - she said the wife of Sidney Fazan, PC at Kisumu, always reminded her of a wicker wastepaper basket which had not been emptied).
Telegraph - 1 Apr 2004 - Phyllis 'Pat' Fazan née Jeffrey, aged 91, died 29th March, late of Bexhill-on-sea and Kingsbridge. Loving wife of Sidney Fazan CMG, CBE of Kenya. Dear mother of Jeffrey and Gillian
Red Book 1912 - S.H. Fazan - Kisumu
Gazette 1/1/1912 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Asst. Dist. Commr - 18/12/1911
Gazette - 26/9/1923 - Voters Register - Coast - Sidney Herbert Fazan, District Commissioner, Kipini
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