C. W. Hobley

C. W. Hobley was a British colonial administrator and ethnographer in East Africa. Trained as an engineer and geologist, he went to East Africa in 1890 with the Imperial British East Africa Company and stayed for some thirty years in the service of the protectorate and colony of Kenya, rising to senior provincial commissioner. He studied the languages, laws and beliefs of the peoples he governed and published Ethnology of A-Kamba and Other East African Tribes and Bantu Beliefs and Magic, the latter with an introduction by Sir James Frazer. He also wrote a memoir, Kenya: From Chartered Company to Crown Colony.