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Name: FOSTER, Robert Wemyss 'Bob'
Birth Date: 1899 Kilconquhar, Fifeshire
Death Date: 6 Apr 1969 Nairobi
First Date: 1930
Profession: Engineer on the Voi Sisal Estate. Later became a professional hunter and was very much in demand.
Area: P.O. Voi, Manager sisal estate
Married: May Isabel b. 16 May 1894 Toft Elie, Fife, d. 1997 Nottingham
Book Reference: Red 31, Hut, Kingsley-Heath, Sundown
General Information:
A friend of John Alexander.
Kingsley-Heath - Bob Foster - Undoubtedly one of the most knowledgeable professional hunters of pre- and post-war years. Reputedly shot more than 100 100-pound tusked elephants in his time. A kind and fair Scottish gentleman. He was a long-time member of Hunters Africa. His brother, who died shortly after him, was a dentist in Arusha ……
Gazette 5/4/1938 - Honorary Game Warden
Hut - Elephant Hunter
Sundown - Bob was reputed to have taken no less than 250 elephants with over 100 lbs. of ivory each side. How did he manage that? - Bob helped out on elephant control - He was allowed to keep one tusk of every elephant he shot. It seems he always punished the biggest marauders! (John Alexander)
Langata cemetery, Nairobi - in loving memory / of / Robert Wemyss / Foster / "Bob" / 1899-1969
Gazette 16 July 1971 probate