Land - 1908 - D. Wolffe - Grazing, 5000 acres, Thika River, 15-6-06, Registered 10-6-08

Gazette - 12/6/1918 - Notice - Power of Attorney granted by David Wolffe to Angus F. Macrae has been revoked and is hereby cancelled

Gazette 18 Jan 1922 probate

Naturalised British

Marian Merritt (relative): Wolffe went from being a mid-level business man in Glasgow and Birmingham - then somehow with his general Jewish philanthropy, caught the bug of international Jewish affairs with the rise of antisemitism in the late 1890s in Eastern Europe and was heavily involved in charitable works. This got him close to the inner circles of Theodor Herzl and early Zionist efforts in London and then internationally with helping to build up communities in Palestine (pre-statehood Israel). He travelled to Palestine in 1897 with a group of interesting and important London people, although the trip splintered into factions that battled in the newspapers as to what it all meant. After the trip, David attended at least one of the international Zionist conferences. Some of his letters are at the Zionist archives in Jerusalem. His will named two important people as executors - Leopold Kessler and Henry Snowman. He travelled to Israel several more times (at least once in 1913 with his daughter Ruth, and that's where she met her future husband Rabbi Max Merritt). And before they got to Jerusalem, they were in Cairo.

In May 1917 David Wolffe entered Mombasa with undeclared goods and was brought up on charges for customs violations. He appealed and lost. In December he was fined 39,000 rupees.