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  1. Dec 6, 2019 · Six years before, in 1898, a 25-year-old man called John Ainsworth had disembarked from a ship at the Port of Mombasa. He was an employee of the colonising company called the Imperial British East African Company, and was ambitious to make a career for himself.

  2. Apr 3, 2013 · Called from Machakos to serve as a top civil servant at the swampy town populated more by lions, zebra, waterbuck, dikdik and frogs than by European settlers, Ainsworth arrived in Nairobi in 1898, three years after the region had become a protectorate of the United Kingdom. At that time, the swamp, which came right up to where the Kenya ...

  3. Jun 16, 2023 · John Ainsworth and the making of Kenya. by. Maxon, Robert M. Publication date. 1980. Topics. Ainsworth, John Dawson, 1864-1946, Imperial British East Africa Company, Colonial administrators -- Kenya -- Biography, Colonial administrators -- Great Britain -- Biography, Kenya -- History -- To 1895. Publisher.

  4. 1 day ago · Labour's Jonathan Ashworth has lost his Leicester South seat, which he has held since 2011.. Ashworth received 13,760 votes, but lost out to independent candidate Shockat Adam, who gained 14,739 ...

  5. Aug 25, 2016 · Colonel John Dawson Ainsworth was among the first colonial administrators to be faced with these competing interests. Born on June 16, 1864 in Urmston near Manchester, England, Ainsworth was...

  6. Describes the career of John Ainsworth (1864-1946) who in 1889 went out to Kenya as a servant of the Imperial British East Africa Company. He then became an administrator in the Colonial Service and from 1917 until his retirement in 1920 he was Military Commissioner for Labour, Adviser on Native Affairs, and Chief Native Commissioner.

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  8. John Dawson Ainsworth (6 June 1864 – 31 March 1946) was a British administrator in East Africa who played a significant role in the development of the East Africa Protectorate.