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Name: SAVILE, Frederick Rodney 'Fred'
Nee: bro of Hugh Osborne Savile
Birth Date: 1882 Clifton, Bristol
Death Date: 28 Sep 1954 Maseno, Kisumu
First Date: 1906
Profession: Maseno Store, Kisumu
Area: Kisumu, Mumias
Married: 1908 Florence A. b. 1882 Worthing
Children: Frederick Aubrey (1910 Lings Lynn)
Book Reference: Red 25, EAWL, Red 31, Hut, Drumkey, Red 22, Gazette, Nicholls, Foster, North
General Information:
Letter from Mrs B. Watson-Jones Sept. 1996 - He was quite a character, his name was Fred Saville and he had a little duka at Maseno. This was when I was a small child and it was only later I learnt that people always considered him a Remittance Man! He was very popular and I have fond memories of him always being nice to me. I can well remember what a good tap-dancer he was and seeing him after dinner dressed in his evening suit (as all the men always did) at the vet's house. ..…
Drumkey 1909 - Broker - (Maseno), Kisumu - F.R. Saville
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Kisumu - F.R. Saville, Trader, Maseno
Nicholls - Paradoxically, whites could be kindly and considerate to individual workers in their houses and on their farms, and loyalty and strong affection developed between many whites and individual Africans, on both sides. For example, two Luo men cared devotedly for the Hon. Frederick Savile in his squalid shack at Maseno village during his final years of senility, and the local Indian shopkeeper kept him supplied with free toothpaste.
Foster - CMS Missionary Kavirondo he started a small dispensary that later became CMS Maseno Hospital. He had for many years helped CMS Maseno School. He died in October 1954. He bequeathed his house to CMS.
Gazette - 12/11/1919 - Register of Voters - Lake Area - Frederick Rodney Savile - Trader - Maseno
Hut has F.A. Saville, arrived 1900, Maseno Estate, Kisumu
Gazette 10 May and 19 Jul 1955 probate - says he died at Nakuru