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Name: WETHERELL, Marmaduke Cordeux MD (Lieut.-Col., Dr.)

Birth Date: 10 May 1877 Deptford

Death Date: 23 Sep 1952 Mombasa

First Date: 1922

Last Date: 1952

Profession: Medical officer, farmer

Area: Eldoret, 1925 Blackbird Farm, Turbo Valley, 1930 Naivasha

Married: Ada Beatrice b. 1887, d. 18 July 1959 Mombasa

Children: Diana Fay (1923-21 Dec 1984 Nairobi); Guy Humphrey Cordeux (1922-8 Nov 1952); Michael Cordeux (1926)

Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Pembroke, Thurston, Red 22, Joelson, Nicholls, Barnes, Gazette

War Service: Lt. 1903, Capt. 1907, Major 1915, A/Lt.-Col. 1916-17, Retd. (ill health) with rank of Lt.-Col 1919

School: MB: MD Durh 1904

General Information:

Pembroke - Steward at Pembroke House Sports in 1938
Thurston - CO 533, 432/6 - 1933 - Lt.-Col. M.C. Wetherall: questions police action against 'squatters'
Red 22 - Doctor in Charge, European Hospital, Eldoret
Drew - India 1905-06 (invalided) and 1907-11; BEF France 1914-18 (invalided) Portuguese Mil Order of Avis (Commander) 1919
Joelson - Notes in proof copy of 'Eastern Africa Today' - Approved Vacancies for Pupils (Convention of Assocns.) - Lt.Col. M.C. Wetherell, Naivasha
Nicholls - Marmaduke Wetherell, the medical officer at Eldoret who had been 6 years in India, raised the temperature by saying that the unrestricted immigration of 50,000 Indians to Kenya would spell the practical extermination of the native because they would contaminate water with 'bacillus coli' and cause typhoid fever and dysentery …….
Barnes - Mombasa Cemetery - Dr Marmaduke Wetherell, died 23 Sep 1952 age 75, European Hospital, Broncho-Pneumonia, Coronary Embolism, Old Age
Gazette 21/4/1920 - Registration of Brands - PO Eldoret - G4W
KAD 1922 - Medical Officer, Eldoret.
Pembroke No. 135, 1933, Naivasha, (dec'd)
Gazette 28 July 1959 wife's probate

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