Popplewell, Geoffrey Douglas, son of Herbert Alfred Popplewell, of Sidcup, Kent, by Norah Mabel, daughter of the Rev. George Smith, Vicar of St. Paul's, Bunhill Row, London; b. Aug. 7, 1904; adm. as K.S. Sept. 26, 1918; left (with Triplett) July 1923; Brasenose Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1923; B.A. 1926; M.A. 1962; Tanganyika Administrative Service, cadet 1927, asst. district officer May 1929; district officer 1940; senior D.O. 1950; deputy provincial commissioner 1955; acting prov. comm. 1955; retired 1957; author of several geographical, geological and ethnological articles on the Tanganyika Territory; m. 1st, 1931, Marjorie Helen, daughter of Kenneth Macdonald, of lnvernesshire; d. 1945; 2nd, 1947, Isabel Diana Elisabeth, daughter of Maj. Philip Mathews, O.B.E., commissioner of police, British Honduras; d. 18 July 1994.
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