Kenneth Allardyce

Kenneth Allardyce
Allardyce in 1918 as commander of the Fijian Labour Corps
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