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Name: HARVEY, Conway CBE
Photo Source: sitting - Kenya Observer 28 Apr 1923
Birth Date: 5.2.1880 Bockingfold Manor, Goudhurst, Kent
Death Date: 21.6.1943 Nakuru
First Date: 1910 from S. Africa
Profession: Coffee planter, one time 'Father' of the Legislative Council
Area: Farm 1450, Koru. Red 25 Honorary Permit Issuer. Red 25 JP, Muhoroni, 1910 Chebosetet Est. Koru, sold to Brooks
Book Reference: Gillett, KFA, Joelson, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Legion, Curtis, Red 22, Thurston, CO, Dominion, Leader14, Rift Valley, Barnes, Red 19
War Service: Captain (SALH) Marshall's Horse, Boer War; Sergeant Major, EAMR in WW1
General Information:
KFA - Start of the KFA - 'The first documentary evidence that can be traced is the registration of the BEA Farmers' Association on Feb. 11th 1919, with one hundred members. In fact the former Maize Growers Association had changed its name and constitution on Jan 1st that year to become a limited liability company with Mr Conway Harvey as Chairman and a Board of Directors consisting of Messrs. F.W. Baillie, A. Gray, Sammy McCall, D. Stanning and B. Garland.'
Joelson - 1928 - One of first settlers in Koru in 1911
KAD 1922 - Elected Member of Legco for Nyanza
Red 25 - Member, Kenya Land Settlement Advisory Board, Committee Member REAAA. President, The Coffee Planters' Union of Kenya & EA
Curtis - 'A Voyage in s.s. Bajune, 1919' .... Captain Jim Belfrage, after serving in a number of Clan Line ships, came out from the United Kingdom to Kenya in 1919 to take up the offer of a good job. However, the job vanished while he was en route. He tells the story of the alternative employment he found. 'I met a man called Ambrose Smith who with Mayer of the EA Standard, Conway Harvey, and General Charrington had decided to start up a coastal service on the EA coast and I got the job as manager to start the company. It was called the East African Steam Navigation Company.
Mayer, who was the leading light in this coastal venture, had gone down to Mombasa and bought a small twin screw steamer called 'Bajune'. She was really a river craft and had been used by an Italian firm on the Juba River until the British had taken her over to land troops on the German East African coast. She was in the battle of Tanga. ..…..'
Red 22 - Honorary Permit Issuer
Thurston - Official Records - CO533 - 376/3 - 1928 - recommendation for award to Conway Harvey and Phadke CO 533/376/3 - Proposal to honour Conway Harvey and Phadke for work on the Indian problem. Conway Harvey to get the CIE but proposal rejected as Conway Harvey not eligible for this honour.
Dominion - 1930 - European Elected member of Legco
Leader14 - Nyanza Farmers and Planters Association (Fort Ternan) - President - C. Harvey
Rift Valley - Member of the Rift Valley Sports Club - Jan 1929 - Elected - 4 Nov 1919 - Conway Harvey
Gazette - 12/11/1919 - Register of Voters - Lake Area - Conway Harvey - Farmer - Muhoroni
Nakuru North cemetery - Conway Harvey CBE, 1880-1943
Red Book 1919 - District Committees - Kisumu - Koru - Conway Harvey
Red Book 1919 - Coffee Planters' Union of BEA, Nairobi - Hon. Secretary - Koru - Conway Harvey
Red Book 1919 - Nyanza Farmers' and Planters' Association, Songhor - Vice-President - Conway Harvey, Koru
Gazette - 26/3/1924 - Dissolution of Partnership between Conway Harvey, Charles Nelson and Russell Primrose Collings-Wells, carrying on business as General Farmers at Koru under the style of Koru Farm has been dissolved by mutual consent as and from 31 July 1923. Business to be carried on by Charles Nelson and Russell Primrose Collings-Wells
KFA - Delegate to the Maize Conference of 1923 [photo]. Chairman of the Passion Fruit Board - 1937. Chairman of KFA 1918-21. Winner of Koru GC Club Championship in 30's