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In acknowledgement of what he had done for the Council the following motion
was passed unanimously: “This Council desires to convey to Councillor A.W.

Brooke-Smith its thanks for, and high appreciation of, the very valuable services
rendered by him to the Municipality during the period of his Mayoralty and

especially with reference to the Kalk Bay-Muizenberg Improvement Act of

1897”.

Among his other achievements while mayor was his work as Chairman of the
“Lighting Committee” which eventually brought electricity to Kalk Bay and

Muizenberg, the establishing of the first public library in 1895 with Canon
James Baker as Patron and himself as President, and the establishing of the first

Voter’s Roll in this area.

Besides being a church-warden, a Justice of Peace for the Cape Colony, he was

also a Master Mariner, a member of the Royal Naval Reserve, and for 20 years

Secretary of the Commercial Assurance Company. He was a truly talented
gentleman who returned to England with his family in August 1897. He died in

September 1917 at Paignton, Devon. A stained-glass window in the Holy Trinity
Church Kalk Bay, donated by his children and grandchildren, commemorates his

and his wife’s meaningful lives.

Mayor W. H. F. Pocock 1897 - 1898, 1911 (Fig. 2.2)

William Henry Frederick Pocock followed Brooke-Smith as Mayor and was a

highly talented and successful entrepreneur. He lived at Carisbrooke, No.2 Main
Road St. James for many years, and served as Mayor on two occasions from July

1897 - August 1898 and from August 1910 - May 1911. He came from a long
line of professional apothecaries, and he kept the family tradition going by