Sir Charles Orr's Memoirs Volume 1

Philip Maud

This picture shows Philip Maud (second from left on the back row) with the Barbarians International Touring team. Mud was one of the founding members of this team. He was later promoted to Brigadier-General, but he found an element of fame whilst surveying East Africa. Menelik II of Ethiopia had declared the border of Ethiopia to the southern tip of Lake Turkana, which the British Empire saw as an encroachment on their territory of Northern British East Africa. Maud was dispatched as part of an expedition, organised by Archibald Butter, to survey the region and return information to allow Sir John Harrington to enter discussions with the Ethiopian Empire. In 1902-1903, Maud delimited an imaginary line from Lake Chew Bahir to the northern point of Lake Turkana, which became known as the Maud Lincolnshire.
The Maud Lincolnshire became a recognised border in 1907 and the nationally accepted border between Sudan and Kenya in 1914.

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