Harold Baxter Kittermaster
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Sir Harold Baxter Kittermaster KCMG KBE |
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Photograph dated 16 June 1937
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| Governor of British Somaliland | |
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In office 26 January 1926 – 1931 |
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| Preceded by | Gerald Henry Summers |
| Succeeded by | Sir Arthur Salisbury Lawrance |
| Governor of British Honduras | |
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In office 9 March 1932 – 1934 |
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| Preceded by | Major Sir John Alder Burdon |
| Succeeded by | Alan Cuthbert Maxwell Burns |
| Governor of Nyasaland | |
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In office 21 September 1934 – 20 March 1939 |
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| Preceded by | Kenneth Lambert Hall |
| Succeeded by | Donald Mackenzie-Kennedy |
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| Born | 14 May 1879 |
| Died | 20 March 1939 (aged 59) |
Sir Harold Baxter Kittermaster KCMG, KBE (14 May 1879 – 20 March 1939) was governor of British Somaliland (now Somalia), British Honduras (now Belize), and then of the Nyasaland protectorate (now Malawi) in the period before the Second World War.
Kittermaster was born at Belmont, Shrewsbury, Shropshire on 14 May 1879, son of the Reverend Frederick Wilson Kittermaster (died 1906) of Coventry, England. It was the same year that his father moved from Coventry to take up his last post as Vicar of Bayston Hill near Shrewsbury.
He was educated at Shrewsbury School and at Christ Church, Oxford. He married, in 1923, Winifred Elsie, born on 25 April 1899 in Coventry, daughter of Richard Alexandra Rotherham, by whom he had one son and one daughter. At a height of six feet, eight and a half inches (2,05 meters) he was reckoned to be one of the tallest men in the British Colonial Service.
Kittermaster was a colonial official in British East Africa, now Kenya, before World War I, and assisted Theodore Roosevelt on his 1909 safari. Kittermaster was the officer-in-charge of the Northern Frontier District during the Aulihan Somali uprising, which started with a major cattle raid on the Samburu in December 1915 and was followed by the sack of the British post at Sarinley in Jubaland. The British had limited forces in the area and were distracted by military operations in German East Africa. Kittermaster was unable to persuade the authorities to undertake serious reprisals until September 1917. After ruthless military action and many deaths the Aulihan were forced to capitulate and pay compensation in cattle. Kittermaster said: "no further trouble need be feared from the Aulihan for some time to come".
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