Humphrey Slade,

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, KBE (4 May 1905 – 13 August 1983) was a British-born Kenyan lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Legislative Council and later the

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between 1952 and 1970. He was the inaugural

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of the

, from 1967 to 1970. He had his residential house in Nyandarua next to Karima Girls High School

Biography

Slade was born in

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to George Slade, a

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, and his wife Edith Beale. He was a

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and later read

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. He completed his articles with

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and qualified as a solicitor in 1930. He migrated to Kenya in October 1930 and practised as a lawyer with Hamilton Harrison and Mathews in

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. When the

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broke out in 1939, he was made Deputy Judge Advocate of the East African Forces, remaining in the position until 1941. In 1945, whilst still in Kenya, he came of the roll of solicitors in England and Wales in order to gain a call to the bar at

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. In 1952, he was elected to the Legislative Council from the Aberdares constituency. He served as speaker of the Legislative Council from 1960 until Kenyan independence in 1963. He then served as speaker of the newly established

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between 1963 and 1967, and that latter year he was unanimously elected as the inaugural

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."Humphrey Slade." ''

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'' (London, England), Thursday, Aug 18, 1983; pg. 10; Issue 61614. Retrieved 22 February 2015. He retired from public life in 1970 and died in

in 1984. He was an experienced mountain climber, and may have been one of the climbers referred to by John Hunt when he wrote that there were likely Commonwealth candidates for the

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from Kenya and New Zealand.

References

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