Kenneth Allardyce
Secretary for Native Affairs
In office
 –1920
Official Member of the Legislative Council
In office
1914–1920
Personal details
Born9 April 1881
Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Died14 April 1937(1937-04-14) (aged 56)
Nabavatu, Fiji
ProfessionColonial administrator

Kenneth James Allardyce MBE (9 April 1881 – 14 April 1937) was a British colonial administrator in Fiji.

Biography

Allardyce was born in Aberdeen in 1881,[1] and was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and Wellington College. He joined his brother William in Fiji in 1898 and became a member of the civil service,[2] starting as a clerk.[3] In 1902 he was made chief clerk and inspector.[4] He later became a District Commissioner in Lomaiviti, then Native Commissioner in 1914.[5] Shortly after becoming Native Commissioner, he was appointed to the Legislative Council.[5] He subsequently became Secretary for Native Affairs.[3]

During World War I he headed the Fiji Labour Corps,[3] attaining the rank of captain.[6] He was subsequently awarded an MBE for his service.[2]

After retiring from the civil service in 1920, he became a coconut planter.[7] He was sent to the Solomon Islands in 1922 as a special commissioner to investigate labour conditions.[8] He also briefly returned to the civil service as Acting District Commissioner in Lau and Resident Commissioner in Rotuma.[3] He died in 1937.[3]

References

  1. ^ William Johnston (1894) A Genealogical Account of the Descendants of James Young, Merchant Burgess of Aberdeen and Rachel Cruickshank His Wife, 1697-1893, with Notes on Many of the Families with which They are Connected, University Press, p18
  2. ^ a b "Aberdeen man's death on south sea island", The Scotsman, 18 May 1937
  3. ^ a b c d e Death of K.J. Allardyce Pacific Islands Monthly, May 1937, p71
  4. ^ Fiji The Daily Telegraph, 10 January 1902
  5. ^ a b Fiji Blue Book for the Year 1914, p85
  6. ^ Charles Prestwood Lucas (1924) The Empire at War: Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, Humphrey Milford, p395
  7. ^ Labor in the Solomons The Daily Telegraph, 15 April 1922
  8. ^ Brij V. Lal, Doug Munro & Edward D. Beechert (1993) Plantation Workers: Resistance and Accommodation, University of Hawaii Press, p150
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