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Friday, 22 June 2012

Colonial Governor ~ Sir Claud Hollis


Festina Lente
In Proud and
Loving Memory
Sir Claud Hollis
G.C.M.G  C.B.E
Born 12th May 1874
Died 22nd Nov 1961 

Festina Lente ~ Make Haste Slowly or More Haste, Less Speed


Sir Alfred Claud Hollis  GCMG, CBE ~ 1874 ~ 1961 ~ was British administrator who served as British Resident to the Sultan of Zanzibar between 1923 and 1929 and Governor of Trinidad and Tobago between 1930 and 1936 and author of a historical account of Spanish Trinidad.


He also wrote books on the Language and Folklore of the Masai and Nandi.


















Thursday, 21 June 2012

Summer Solstice


Today is the longest day of the year.
Daisies in St.Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Widdington, Essex











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