Terence Gavaghan

Terence Gavaghan
MBE
District Officer in Charge of Rehabilitation of Kenya Colony
In office
April 1957 – March 1958
Personal details
Born1 October 1922
Allahabad, British India
Died10 August 2011 (aged 88)
United Kingdom

Terence Gavaghan MBE (1 October 1922 – 10 August 2011) was a British colonial administrator. As a colonial district officer in Kenya, he was responsible for six detention centres in Mwea during the Mau Mau insurrection of the 1950s.[1]

Gavaghan was identified by Espon Makanga as one of three colonial officers who developed the 'dilution technique'and also killed Kenyans: "They beat us from the day we arrived, with sticks, with their fists, kicking us with their boots. They beat us to make us work. They beat us to force us to confess our Mau Mau oath. After a year I couldn't take it any longer. Gavaghan had won".[2]

  1. ^ "Terence Gavaghan". The Telegraph. 12 September 2011. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
  2. ^ McGreal, Chris (13 October 2006). "Shameful legacy". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 September 2014.