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Name: STEELE, Charles (Major)
Birth Date: 12 Dec 1883 Great Parndon, Essex
Death Date: 20 Aug 1962 Ngong
First Date: 1930
Profession: Planter
Area: Box 372, Nairobi, 1937 El Sudo Sangriente, Ngong
Married: In Bombay, India 5 June 1912 Madge Ethel Nethersole b. 9 Mar 1893 Bengal, d. 21 June 1961 East Lothian, Scotland (in 1945 she m. Arthur Harvey Russell Dodd 1883-1955)
Book Reference: Red 31, Karen 50, Hut, Pioneers
War Service: 13 Hussars
General Information:
Pioneers - Karen in the Twenties - I [F.H. Sprott] arrived in Kenya in October 1919. My father, Sir Frederick Sprott, had bought a small property, now known as Cooper's Hill, from Major C. Steele.
Gazette 5/4/2938 - Honorary Game Warden
Karen 50 - One of the original members of Karen Club in 1937 (Major C. Steel)
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Kiambu Voters List
Gazette 18 Dec 1962 probate
Freemason Secunderabad, Madras 13 Nov 1908