Sir Armigel de Vins Wade CMG

Order of St Michael and St George

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 OBE

Order of the British Empire

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 (17 October 1880 – 4 December 1966) was a British colonial official.

Life

Wade was born at Henfield

Henfield

Henfield is a large village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies south of London, northwest of Brighton, and east northeast of the county town of Chichester at the road junction of the A281 and A2037. The parish has a land area of . In the 2001 census 5,012...

, Sussex

Sussex

Sussex , from the Old English Sūþsēaxe , is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded on the north by Surrey, east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for local government into West...

 on 17 October 1880 the son of Charles Wade, a solicitor, and his wife Sarah.
Wade was educated at Lancing College

Lancing College

Lancing College is a co-educational English independent school in the British public school tradition, founded in 1848 by Nathaniel Woodard. Woodard's aim was to provide education "based on sound principle and sound knowledge, firmly grounded in the Christian faith." Lancing was the first of a...

 before studying at Keble College, Oxford

Keble College, Oxford

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. After graduation, he taught classics at Worksop College

Worksop College

Worksop College is a co-educational day and boarding school for boys and girls aged 13 to 18 in England. Worksop is split into eight houses - Talbot, Mason, Portland, Pelham and Shirley for boys and Gibbs, Derry and School House for girls.- Origins :...

, Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire

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 and at the Forest School, before being appointed Assistant District Commissioner in the East Africa Protectorate

East Africa Protectorate

East Africa Protectorate was an area of East Africa occupying roughly the same terrain as present-day Kenya from the Indian Ocean inland to Uganda and the Great Rift Valley...

 in 1912. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1931. In the following year, he became Chief Native Commissioner in Kenya Colony

Kenya Colony

The Colony and Protectorate of Kenya was part of the British Empire in Africa. It was established when the former East Africa Protectorate was transformed into a British crown colony in 1920...

. He was Chief Secretary to the Government of Kenya between 1934 and 1939; he was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1935 and knighted in 1937. He had two spells as Acting Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Kenya, between March and August 1935, and between December 1936 and April 1937. He retired in 1939. He returned to Britain and spent some of his later years in Pulborough

Pulborough

Pulborough is a large village and civil parish in the Horsham district of West Sussex, England, with some 5,000 inhabitants. It is located almost centrally within West Sussex and is south west of London. It is at the junction of the north-south A29 and the east-west roads.The village is near the...

, Sussex, and died on 4 December 1966.