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==Career==
 
=== EastEarly Africacareer ===
He first served as Assistant District Commissioner in the British East Africa Protectorate in [[Mombasa]] from 1908-1914.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=17 February 1956 |title=Died at his Hairdresser's |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/785767088/?match=1&terms=charles%20dundas |work=West London Press |pages=1 |publication-place=Kensington and Chelsea, London, England}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Dundas |first=Charles Cecil Farquharson |title=African Crossroads |publisher=Macmillan & Co (London); St Martin's Press (New York) |year=1955 |location=London and New York |pages=v-vii}}</ref> This was following by a posting to Nairobi, followed by a secondment with the Indian Army in German East Africa during World War.<ref name=":2" />
 
=== Tanzania ===
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In 1921, Dundas wasbecame district commissioner of the [[Moshi, Kilimanjaro|Moshi]] area in [[Tanzania]]<ref duringname=":2" the/> and Secretary for Native Affairs about 1925<ref name=":2" 1920s/>. In 1926, he was made a member of the Executive Council of the [[Tanganyika Territory]].<ref>{{Cite journal |date=26 January 1926 |title=Appointment |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33127/page/617 |journal=The Gazette |publication-place=London, England |issue=33127 |pages=617}}</ref>
 
In 1930 he founded the [[Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union]]. He popularised the area's coffee production, and was given the title '''Wasaoye-o-Wachagga''' (Elder of the [[Chagga]]).