Bird, Clifford Gordon, 1877-1947
- GB-2014-WSA-03285
- Person
- 1877-1947
Bird, Clifford Gordon, son of Charles Ellis Bird, of London, solicitor, by Ellen Lancaster, daughter of Alexander Henderson; b. Oct. 15, 1877; adm. Sept. 25, 1890 (G); left July 1894; St. Edmund Hall, Oxon., matric. Lent 1899; B.A. 1902; entered the South African Civil Service; seconded to the S. W. African Administration as Public Trustee; retired 1925; Senior Announcer, South African Broadcasting Corpn., Cape Town 1925-42; Property Manager of the Board of Executors, Cape Town; served in the Imperial Yeomanry in the South African War 1900, and as Capt., Cape Garrison Artillery, in Great War I; m. June 24, 1911, Joan Elizabeth, daughter of Andries Petrus Brink, of Worcester, Cape Province; d. 1947.