Background
KILPIN, Ernest Fuller was born on May 5, 1854. Son of late Reverend S. W. Kilpin ot Reading.
KILPIN, Ernest Fuller was born on May 5, 1854. Son of late Reverend S. W. Kilpin ot Reading.
Studied at private schools in Weymouth and Reading. Cape Civil Service in London, 1874.
Private secretary to late Sir Charles Mills, Under-Colonial Secretary, Cape Town, 1876. To Sir Gordon Sprigg, Prime Minister, 1878. ClerkAssistant of House of Assembly, 1880.
Clerk of House, 1897-1910. Was Secretary of following Cape Government Commissions: Dorthesia,1877. War Expenditure, 1881.
Liesbeek Municipality, 1883. Diamond Laws, 1887.
Liquor Laws, 1SS9. Lighthouses 1890; Fisheries, 1892.
Scab, 1893; Defence, 1896. Was Secretary of Imperial British and German Joint Commission on Angra Pequena and West Coast Claims, 1885. Chief Secretary, South African Convention, 1908-1909.
Examiner for shorthand under Cape Civil Service Commissioners, 1889-1910. Justice of the Peace; Clerk of the House of Assembly of the Cape of Good Hope, 1897-1910.
Club: Civil Service, Cape Town.
Spouse 1880, Augusta (lady of the Royal,Red Cross, 1902),daughter of late G. W. Pilkington, of Cape Town.