Comments on: R.I.P Kenneth Barnes CBE (M1943-49) – 1st July 2010 http://www.olddovorians.com/2010/07/r-i-p-kenneth-barnes-cbe-m1943-49-1st-july-2010/ Bringing Old Dovorians together Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:44:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: M Gerald J Lloyd Williams http://www.olddovorians.com/2010/07/r-i-p-kenneth-barnes-cbe-m1943-49-1st-july-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-192 M Gerald J Lloyd Williams Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:35:36 +0000 http://www.olddovorians.com/?p=327#comment-192 Dear Richard As soon as I read your name I wondered/hoped you might be a relation of dear, revered Clem Pleass - I speak as though I knew him well which is totally wishfull-thinking - I met him but once and then only as a mere carpet-bagger (as no doubt all my Government servant ancestors would dub me - spinning in their graves); but your grandfather was so widely admired by people that did not know him - government or commerce - and revered by those that did, that mine is a happy inference even if it is a lie. My favourite anecdote of his reign in Government House in Enugu in fact involved Prince Philip and Lady Pleass, rather than Sir Clement. However I did preside at Committee Meetings as acting Commodore of the Lagos Yacht Club at the very handsome table Sir Clement presented to the Club when he became an absentee member on going down to the Eastern Region. Alas, it warped terribly in the humidity ! The daughter of our closest friends (ex-Nigeria and living in the next village) married into a long-standing West Sussex farming family who have some connection with Sir Clement - I'll try and chase it up for you if you would let me have an email address. Dear Richard
As soon as I read your name I wondered/hoped you might be a relation of dear, revered Clem Pleass – I speak as though I knew him well which is totally wishfull-thinking – I met him but once and then only as a mere carpet-bagger (as no doubt all my Government servant ancestors would dub me – spinning in their graves); but your grandfather was so widely admired by people that did not know him – government or commerce – and revered by those that did, that mine is a happy inference even if it is a lie. My favourite anecdote of his reign in Government House in Enugu in fact involved Prince Philip and Lady Pleass, rather than Sir Clement. However I did preside at Committee Meetings as acting Commodore of the Lagos Yacht Club at the very handsome table Sir Clement presented to the Club when he became an absentee member on going down to the Eastern Region. Alas, it warped terribly in the humidity ! The daughter of our closest friends (ex-Nigeria and living in the next village) married into a long-standing West Sussex farming family who have some connection with Sir Clement – I’ll try and chase it up for you if you would let me have an email address.

]]> By: Richard Pleass http://www.olddovorians.com/2010/07/r-i-p-kenneth-barnes-cbe-m1943-49-1st-july-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-189 Richard Pleass Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:57:41 +0000 http://www.olddovorians.com/?p=327#comment-189 Dear Gerald I was saddened to hear of the passing away of Kenneth Barnes. I was hoping to make contact with him to find out if he knew any anecdotes of my grandfather who was Colonial Governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria at the time that Kenneth was there. Richard Dear Gerald

I was saddened to hear of the passing away of Kenneth Barnes.
I was hoping to make contact with him to find out if he knew any anecdotes of my grandfather who was Colonial Governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria at the time that Kenneth was there.

Richard

]]> By: M Gerald J Lloyd Williams http://www.olddovorians.com/2010/07/r-i-p-kenneth-barnes-cbe-m1943-49-1st-july-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-186 M Gerald J Lloyd Williams Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:59:56 +0000 http://www.olddovorians.com/?p=327#comment-186 For anyone interested in life as an administrative Colonial Servant in the Eastern Region of Nigeria, in the period shortly before the granting of independence in 1960, and later in Malawi, careers much hampered by polio, Ken Barnes published Memories of Empire in two volumes titled 'A Rough Passage'. For anyone interested in life as an administrative Colonial Servant in the Eastern Region of Nigeria, in the period shortly before the granting of independence in 1960, and later in Malawi, careers much hampered by polio, Ken Barnes published Memories of Empire in two volumes titled ‘A Rough Passage’.

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