George Beresford-Stooke was awarded the 2nd Class Order of Brilliant Star of Zanzibar, George Beresford-Stooke was created CMG in 1943 and knighted as KCMG in 1948.
10 Facts About George Beresford-Stooke
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In 1951, Sir George Beresford-Stooke revised the Constitution of Sierra Leone to expand the franchise to women in areas of the "interior" where, up until that point, only men were allowed the right-to-vote on local matters.
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George Beresford-Stooke ordered government resources to go towards building health clinics and repairing roads on Tasso, Kagbeli, and Tumbu Islands which had long been overlooked by the government.
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George Beresford-Stooke ordered all of those facilities to be desegregated, and all new facilities to be built without racial segregation in mind with respects to new structures.
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George Beresford-Stooke requested and received help in increasingly "rural literacy" programs in the colony's interior.
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George Beresford-Stooke ordered that signs which had hitherto only been painted in English, be painted in the Sherbro, Mende and Temne languages so that locals who did not speak English were able to read them.
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In 1954, after six months as Assistant, Sir George Beresford-Stooke, having been a Scout for many years, was appointed Overseas Commissioner for the Boy Scout Association.
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Also in 1954, Sir George Beresford-Stooke was appointed a Knight of the Order of St John of Jerusalem.
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In 1959, Sir George Beresford-Stooke was part of a team tasked by UK to investigate the detention camps in Kenya.
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George Beresford-Stooke's wife Creenagh was born on 14 May 1907 and died there, in November 1998.