Reginald Berkeley Cole

Captain The Honourable
Reginald Berkeley Cole
Reginald Berkeley Cole in the uniform of the 9th Lancers
Member of Legislative Council of Kenya for the Kenya Constituency
In office
1920–1925
Personal details
Born26 November 1882
Cheshire, England
Died27 April 1925
Naro Moru, Kenya Colony
Alma materEton College
Trinity College Cambridge
OccupationPolitician, soldier, farmer, white settler
AwardsQueen's South Africa Medal 1899-1902, with two bars
Military service
Allegiance United Kingdom
Branch/service British Army
RankCaptain
Unit9th Lancers
East African Mounted Rifles
Battles/warsSecond Boer War
First World War

Captain Reginald Berkeley Cole (26 November 1882 - 27 April 1925) was a prominent Anglo-Irish aristocrat, soldier, and white settler in Kenya. He is notable as the founder of the Muthaiga Club in Nairobi.

Biography

Cole was born in Northwich, England, the youngest child of Viscount Cole and his wife Charlotte Baird.

He was commissioned into the Royal Sussex Regiment as a second lieutenant on 23 February 1901, during the Second Boer War, and transferred to the 9th Lancers on 19 October.[1][2][3] After the war, along with his brother Galbraith, he settled in Kenya. Their sister Florence had in 1899 married Lord Delamere, the pioneer of European settlement in Kenya.

On 18 September 1914, he was promoted to the temporary rank of captain while serving in the East African Campaign of the First World War.[4] He led an irregular unit known as Cole's Scouts, formed of Somali soldiers and soldiers from the 2nd Battalion Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire).[5] The unit was plagued by ill-discipline and friction with regular officers from the Lancashires, and was disbanded in August 1915.[6]

In 1920 he was elected as a Member of the Kenyan Legislative Council and he was re-elected unopposed in 1924.

He was a charismatic figure amongst the early European settlers in Kenya and a close friend of Karen Blixen who later featured him and their mutual friend Denys Finch Hatton in her memoir Out of Africa. He was notable as the founder of the Muthaiga Club, a private Nairobi enclave of the colony's demi-monde.[7]

Death

He died of heart failure at Naro Moru on 27 April 1925 aged 42.[8]

References

  1. ^ "THE HON. BERKELEY COLE". The Times. April 29, 1925. p. 18. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Page 1855 | Issue 27294, 15 March 1901 | London Gazette | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-11-17.
  3. ^ "Page 6782 | Issue 27366, 18 October 1901 | London Gazette | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-11-17.
  4. ^ "Page 12669 | Supplement 29408, 17 December 1915 | London Gazette | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-11-17.
  5. ^ Hordern, Charles, Lieutenant-Colonel (1941). Military Operations East Africa, August 1914 – September 1916. Battery Press.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ Lord Cranworth (1939). Kenya Chronicles. Macmillan.
  7. ^ Thurman, Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller, pp. 153–155.
  8. ^ Colony & Protectorate of Kenya, H.M. Stationery Office, 1922, p.3

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