Jardine, Sir Douglas James, eldest son of James Jardine, M.B., of Richmond, Surrey, by Caroline Fanny, youngest daughter of John Hunt Gosling, of Richmond; b. Oct. 13, 1888; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 25, 1902 (A); left (with Triplett) July 1907; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1907; B.A. 1910; M.A. 1914; entered the Colonial Service as a clerk in the Chief Secretary's Office at Cyprus Nov. 1910; Asst. Secretary to the Government 1912-6; Secretary to the Administration of Somaliland 1916-21; accompanied mission to Abyssinia on the Coronation of Queen Zauditu 1917; in charge H. Q. Services, Somaliland Expeditionary Force, 1920; mentioned in despatches; Senior Asst. Secretary, Central Secretariat, Nigeria 1921; Govt. Secretary, Tanganyika, 1928-34; Governor of North Borneo 1934, and of Sierra Leone, 1937; British Representative on the Permanent Mandates Commission 1929-31; Governor of the Leeward Islands 1941; retired on account of ill-health 1943; Commander of the Order of the Most Brilliant Star of Ethiopia 1917; O.B.E. June 3, 1918; C.M.G. 1932; K.C.M.G. 1938; author of The Mad lvfullah of Somaliland (1923), and other works; m. 1st Jan. 21, 1913, Hilda Margaret, youngest daughter of Major John Edwards Werge Howey, of Chelsea; 2nd June 2, 1923, Jessie Mary, daughter of Lauchlan Andrew Macpherson, of Glen Urquhart, Inverness-shire; d. Dec. 11, 1946.
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Houses
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