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Name: SMITHSON, Arthur Lecand
Birth Date: 1892 Camberwell, London
Death Date: 27 Feb 1955 Tanga
First Date: 1920
Profession: c/o Beales & Smithson. Motor Car and General Engineers
Area: Box 550, Nairobi, 1930 Box 320, Nairobi, 1936 Crauford Rd Box 1125, Nbi, Tanga
Married: In London 18 Oct 1919 Mabel Agnes Marmoy b. 1892, d. 26 May 1956 Nairobi
Children: Barbara Joan (Blake) (1923 Lambeth)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Macmillan, Red 22, Harmony, SS, Gazette
General Information:
Macmillan - 1930 - Beales and Smithson, Land, Estate and Managing Agents etc. - The business was started in 1919 by Mr C.K.D. Beales, who was formerly employed by Messrs. Pauling and Co. Ltd., London, in an important position on the construction of the Magadi Railway. At the end of 1920 he was joined in partnership by Mr A.L. Smithson, previously in business in Rhodesia.
Member of Lodge Harmony - Initiated 1/9/24, died 7/3/55
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class A - Corpl. A.L. Smithson, 234 Finsbury Pavement House, EC2 - Farm 1253 - Agent, Eckstein, Braithwaite & Co., PO Box 148, Nairobi
Gazette 26/10/1921 - Dissolution of Partnership between Alfred Marcus Flowers and Arthur Lecand Smithson trading as Motor Car and General Engineers at Mombasa under the style or firm of Flowers and Smithson dissolved by mutual consent from 1/9/1921. Business to be carried on by Alfred Marcus Flowers and Philip Caulfield Wade under the style or firm of Flowers and Wade.
Red 25 - Committee member, Nairobi Chamber of Commerce. Hon. Treasurer, Kenya Angling Association
Gazette 12 July 1955 probate
Gazette 3 July 1956 wife's probate required by Barbara Joan Smithson