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He married Hilda Cholmondeley who was 34 years younger, she bore him 3 children Hilda (born November 8 1933 but died at 3 later), James (1933) and Caroline ( 1935 ). James Stevenson-Hamilton became the first warden of the Kruger National Park in 1902 after the Second Boer War . In 1917 at the end of the First World War , James was employed in the Sudan civil service and by 1921 the Sudanese game protection legislation was drafted in which endured for a number of decades. James was known as ''Skukuza'', a Shangaan name meaning either " he who sweeps clean" or "he who turns everything upside down", by his staff at Kruger National Park. Later in 1936 the main rest camp's name was changed from Sabie Bridge to Skukuza to honour him. Stevenson-Hamilton retired in 1946 as a Lieutenant-Colonel. |
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