Sir Geoffry Alexander Stafford Northcote, KCMG KStJ was a British colonial administrator.
11 Facts About Geoffry Northcote
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Geoffry Northcote was educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton and Balliol College, Oxford.
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Geoffry Northcote entered the Colonial Service in 1904 and served in Kenya from 1904 to 1927.
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Geoffry Northcote became Chief Secretary of Northern Rhodesia a year later, and served there until 1930.
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When he arrived in Kenya in 1904 as a political attache, Geoffry Northcote was posted to Nyanza Province which was then part of Uganda.
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In 1907, Geoffry Northcote was deployed as the District Commissioner of Kisii.
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On 18 January 1908, in the middle of a punitive expedition he was leading, Geoffry Northcote was attacked with a spear and injured by a warrior called Otenyo.
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Geoffry Northcote was then beheaded and his body shipped to London.
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Geoffry Northcote became Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Hong Kong in 1937.
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Geoffry Northcote proposed more provision of housing and social services to serve the needs of the poor.
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Geoffry Northcote married Edith Juliet Mary Adams on 27 October 1910; she was the daughter of James Adams.