Sir Ernest Fuller Kilpin K. C. M. G. , J. P.

Born: 5 May 1854, Reading, Berkshire, England
Marriage (1): Augusta Pilkington in 1880
Died: 10 Dec 1931, Kenilworth, Cape Province, South Africa aged 77

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Spouses/Children:

1. Augusta Pilkington

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bullet Death Notes:

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bullet Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• Web Based Info. http://ancestry24.com/search-item/?id=C2149452919
Name: Kilpin, Augusta
Place Of Birth: Mowbray
Age Of Deceased: 91 years 1 month
Place Of Residence: Seaward Hermanus
Date Of Death: 19 March 1947
Place Of Death: Seaward Hermanus
Surname Of Father: Pilkington
First Name Of Father Of Deceased: George William
Details Of Father Of Deceased: Deceased
Mother Name: Pilkington, Mary
Mothers Maiden Name: Berry
Details Of Mother: Widow
Marital Status Of Deceased: Deceased
Place Of Marriage: Sea Point
Deceased Previous Spouse Surname: Kilpin
Previous Spouse First Names: Sir Ernest
Previous Spouse 1 Date Of Death: 10 December 1931
Previous Spouse 1 Death Details: Ref. 32382
Child 1 Name: Kilpin, Ernest Tyrell
Child 2 Name: Kilpin, Cecil Fuller
Child 3 Name: Kilpin, Ralph Pilkington
Child 4 Name: Kilpin, Denis Pilkington
Left Will: yes
Propertytype: Movable & Immovable
Dated On: 21 March 1947
Signed At: Kenilworth
Death Notice Signed By: D P Kilpin
Signed Capacity: Son at place of death
Source: MOOC
Volume Number: 6/9/13792
Reference Number: 1397/47
Location: Cape Town
Source Location: National Archives
Collection Name: Death Notices Records

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• General Comment. Historical information relating to Sir Ernest Kilpin

Born in Reading, May 5, 1854, being the only son of the Reverend S W Kilpin, who died Aug 6, of the same year. He was educated at private schools in Weymouth and Reading, and entered the Cape Civil Service in London in 1874, being shortly placed in charge of the West of England and South Wales District for the purpose of obtaining and forwarding to the Cape large numbers of the artisans required for the construction of public works. In 1876 he went to Cape Town as Private Secretary, to Sir Charles Mills, then Under Colonial Secretary, and when Sir Gordon Sprigg first took office (Feb 5, 1878) during the Kaffir War, he sent for Mr Kilpin to join him on the frontier as his Private Secretary For some months he resided in King William's Town, and organised and carried on there a Colonial Secretary's Office in miniature. During the next two years Mr Kilpin accompanied Sir Gordon Sprigg on many tours of inspection through the Colony; attended him during the negotiations in Kimberley in regard to the annexation of Griqualand West to the Cape, and was with him at the great Disarmament Pitso in Basutoland, and at the siege of Morosi's Mountain. In 1886 he was appointed Clerk Assistant of the House of Asscmbly, and was elected Clerk of the House in 1897. When Sir Thomas Scanlen was Prime Minister in 1883 he obtained Mr Kilpin's services as Private Secretary for a visit to Basutoland in the effort to secure a satisfactory settlement of that territory, which at that time was annexed to the Cape. He has been Secretary, of the following Cape Government Commissions: Dorthesia, 1877; War Expenditure, 1881; Liesbeek Municipality, 1883; Diamond Laws, 1887; Liquor Laws, 1889; Lighthouses, 1890; Fisheries, 1892; Scab, 1893; Defence, 1896. He was Secretary, of the Imperial British and German Joint Commission on Angra Pequena and West Coast Claims in 1885, for which inquiry HMS Sylvia was specially detached and fitted up, proceeding up the coast as far as Walfisch Bay. He has been Examiner in Shorthand under the Cape Civil Service Commissioners since that paper was first set in 1889; is proprietor and Editor of the Cape Civil Service List, which he instituted in 1885; author of the Parliamentary Agent's Manual (Cape) 1902, and is a JP for the whole Colony. He married, in 1880, Augusta (Lady of the Royal Red Cross, 1902), daughter of G W Pilkington, of Cape Town.
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• Children. Ernest KILPIN (1881-1970)
Cecil Fuller KILPIN (1884-1956)
Ralph KILPIN (1887-1955)
Denis KILPIN (1893-1980)

Ernest married Augusta Pilkington, daughter of George William Pilkington and Mary Berry, in 1880. (Augusta Pilkington was born calculated 19 Feb 1856 and died on 19 Mar 1947 in Hermanus, Cape Province, South Africa.)

bullet Sources of information or n events in their marriage were:

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