Chauncey Hugh Stigand

Captain Chauncey Hugh Stigand
Governor of Upper Nile Province
In office 1917–1918
Governor of Mongalla Province
In office February 1919 – October 1919
Preceded by	Cecil Stephen Northcote
Succeeded by	Vincent Reynolds Woodland
Personal details
Born	1877 Boulogne-sur-Mer
Died	October 1919 Pap, South Sudan
Resting place	Tombé, South Sudan

Chauncey Hugh Stigand (1877–1919) was a British army officer, colonial administrator and big game hunter. He was killed in action while attempting to suppress a rebellion of Aliab Dinka.^[1]

Stigand's father was British consul at Boulogne-sur-Mer, where he was born in 1877. After joining the army, he served in Burma, British Somaliland and British East Africa. He entered the Egyptian army in 1910 and was posted to the Upper White Nile, assuming control of the Lado Enclave from the Belgians in accordance with an agreement. He was placed in charge of the Kajo Kaji district.^[2]

In 1915 Stigand was promoted to major. In 1916 he served in the campaign against 'Ali Dinar in Darfur. From 1917 to 1918 he was governor of the Upper Nile province. Stigand was appointed governor of Mongalla Province in 1919. He was killed by tribesmen of the Aliyab Dinka at Pap, between the Lau River and the White Nile.^[2]

Bibliography

Stingand was a prolific write.

• Chauncy Hugh Stigand, Denis D. Lyell (1906). Central African game and its spoor. H. Cox. 
• Chauncy Hugh Stigand (1907). Scouting and reconnaissance in savage countries. Hugh Rees, ltd.. 
• Chauncy Hugh Stigand (1909). The game of British East Africa. H. Cox. 
• Chauncy Hugh Stigand (1910). To Abyssinia through an unknown land: an account of a journey through unexplored regions of British East Africa by Lake Rudolf to the kingdom of Menelek. J.B. Lippincott. 
• Chauncy Hugh Stigand (1914). Administration in tropical Africa. Constable & company, ltd.. 
• Chauncey Hugh Stigand (1913). The land of Zinj: being an account of British East Africa, its ancient history and present inhabitants. Routledge. ISBN 0714617237. 
• Chauncey Hugh Stigand (1913). Hunting the elephant in Africa: and other recollections of thirteen years wanderings. Macmillan Co.. 
• Chauncey Hugh Stigand (1914). Black tales for white children: Being a collection of Swahili stories. 
• Chauncey Hugh Stigand (1915). A grammar of dialectic changes in the Kiswahili language. University Press. 
• Chauncy Hugh Stigand, Nancy Yulee Neff Stigand (1915). Cooking for settler and trekker. Field Press Ltd.. 
• C H Stigand (1916). Observations On Northern Section Of The Tanganyika-Nile Rift Valley. Royal Geographical Society., London. 
• Chauncy Hugh Stigand (1923). A Nuer-English vocabulary. The University Press. 
• Chauncey Hugh Stigand, Sir Francis Reginald Wingate (1923). Equatoria: the Lado Enclave. Constable. 

References

1. ^ Monish (2010-04-22). "Captain Chauncey Hugh Stigand". AfricaHunting. http://www.africahunting.com/content/2-captain-chauncey-hugh-stigand-555/. Retrieved 2011-07-31. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Richard Leslie Hill (1967). "Stigand Bey, Chauncey Hugh". A biographical dictionary of the Sudan. Routledge. ISBN 0714610372. http://books.google.ca/books?id=QS_GYMeSzRMC&pg=PA346. 

Persondata
Name
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1877
Place of birth	Boulogne-sur-Mer
Date of death	1919
Place of death	Pap, South Sudan