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Name: SCHOUTEN, Theodore Marinus

Birth Date: 19 Aug 1890 Utrecht

Death Date: 27 Dec 1954 Nairobi

First Date: 1911

Last Date: 1954

Profession: Established a hairdressing business in Nbi. where his salon became a rendezvous of the elite. After many years in business he died in Nbi.

Area: Box 334, Nairobi

Married: Edith Alice

Children: John Thomas Theodore (10 Apr 1917 Nairobi)

Book Reference: Gillett, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Macmillan, Red 22, Gazette, Harmony, Nicholls, Barnes

General Information:

Macmillan - 1930 - Theo. Schouten, Court Hairdresser and Perfumer, Chiropodist and Masseur - the finest and largest of its kind in Eastern Africa. ….. Mr Schouten's establishment comprises a series of very attractive salons for ladies and gentlemen respectively, where the latest methods of hairdressing, vibro-massage, and artistic hairwork are performed by a staff of male and female experts. The business, established in 1911, is very well known and highly appreciated, and its enterprising proprietor has attended to no fewer that 18 Royalties as well as many other celebrities who have visited Kenya including, The Prince of Wales, Duke of Gloucester, Duke and Duchess of York, Prince Arthur of Connaught, Princess Louise, Crown Princes of Belgium and Sweden, and the late Prince Leopold of France etc.
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Nairobi District - T.M. Schouten, Norfolk Hotel
Member of Lodge Harmony - Joined 6/12/26 Nicholls - Erroll {Earl of} seducer of other men's wives and caresser of secretaries' bottoms, would hang out in the foyer of Theo Schouten's hairdressing salon, chatting up the clients, who preferred that establishment to Osa's, Nairobi's other hairdresser, with its smell of rotten eggs.
Barnes - Nairobi City Park Cemetery - Theo Schouten, died 27 Dec 1954 aged 64
Gazette - Voters List 1936 - Theo Schouten, Hairdresser, Box 334, Nbi
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Kiambu Voters List

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