Percy W.H. Kettlewell (1869 - 1950) was an English priest and educationist in the early 20th century.
Kettlewell matriculated in 1888 and graduated from Keble College, Oxford University in 1890. He was ordained as a priest in 1896. In 1909 he was appointed as the headmaster of St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown. He held this office for 24 years.
St. Andrew's College is an Anglican school for boys located in Makhanda (Grahamstown), Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was founded in 1855 by the Right Reverend John Armstrong, the first Bishop of Grahamstown. It is a semi boarding school, with a number of day boys. St. Andrew's College caters to 480 pupils from around the globe. The school is also a member of the G20 Schools group and closely associated with its brother school, St. Andrew's Preparatory School, and its sister school the Diocesan School for Girls.
Following his retirement from the College, he became vicar of Buckland, Buckinghamshire, in England (1934–44). In 1945 he was appointed Canon Emeritus of the Grahamstown Cathedral.
Buckland is a village and civil parish in Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. The village is near the boundary with Hertfordshire, close to Aston Clinton. The hamlet of Buckland Wharf is in the parish. It takes its name from its wharf on the Wendover Branch of the Grand Union Canal that passes through the parish.
He was active as an archaeological collector at Kasouga and at Sugar-Loaf Hill, Grahamstown. He organised a transfer of archaeological material from the Albany Museum to the British Museum in 1922.
Kasouga or Kasuka is a small village in Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
The Albany Museum, South Africa is situated in Grahamstown in South Africa, is affiliated to Rhodes University and dates back to 1855, making it the second oldest museum in South Africa.
The British Museum, in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture. Its permanent collection of some eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence, having been widely sourced during the era of the British Empire. It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. It was the first public national museum in the world.
On 29 June 1914 he married he married Nina Mary Denison-Clarke at Grahamstown. [6]
William Guybon Atherstone (1814–1898) medical practitioner, naturalist and geologist, one of the pioneers of South African geology and a member of the Cape Parliament.
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Ernest Glanville was a South African author, known especially for his short stories which are widely read and taught in South Africa. He also wrote seventeen historical novels.
John Hewitt was a South African zoologist and archaeologist of British origin. He was born in Dronfield, Derbyshire, England, and died in Grahamstown, South Africa. He was the author of several herpetological papers which described new species.
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The Right Reverend John Garraway Holmes was an Anglican Bishop. He was buried at Broadwater Cemetery in Worthing.
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Bernard Williams was an Anglican priest. He was the son of the Rev. Henry Williams. Bernard was born on 14 December 1869 at Croxton, Norfolk. He went to school at Bury St Edmunds and Norwich. He matriculated in 1889.
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Frederick York St Leger was the Irish born founder of the Cape Times newspaper in South Africa, and Anglican priest.
John August Ion Agar-Hamilton was a South African historian and Anglican priest. He was born in Cairo to Scottish parents who migrated to South Africa in 1906. He studied at Pretoria Boys High School and Transvaal University College, whence he obtained a BA in 1914. He may also have studied at the University of the Cape of Good Hope and Keble College, Oxford.
Peter Bingham Hinchliff was a South African Anglican priest and academic. He was the Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 1995.
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Richard Wildman Kettlewell, (1910-1994), was a colonial agricultural officer who spent all his colonial career in Nyasaland apart from three years of wartime army service. He became Director of Agriculture in 1951 and Secretary for National Resources then Minister of Lands and Surveys between 1960 and 1962. He was influential in the late colonial administration of Nyasaland, and responsible for the introduction of several controversial agricultural and land-use policies that were highly unpopular with African farmers and which he accepted had promoted nationalist sentiments in the protectorate. After leaving Nyasaland in 1962 shortly before its independence, he settled in the Cotswolds for the remainder of his life and undertook part-time consulting work on tropical land use.
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