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Name: SHEPHERD, Richard Kenneth (Dr.)
Birth Date: 26.2.1882 Bridgetown, Barbados
Death Date: 19.3.1946 Cardiff
Last Date: 1922
Profession: Initially he worked with the CMS in Zanzibar but then transferred to Freretown, Mombasa travelling by dhow, and was stationed there for many years. Later worked at Lower Kabete
Area: Zanzibar, Mombasa, Lower Kabete
Married: In Mombasa 30.12.1908 Eleanor Kathleen Ferrar Binns b. 8 June 1883 Frere Town, d. 11.7.1955 Nairobi (dau of Rev Harry Kerr Binns)
Children: Charles Duncan Ferrar (4 Dec 1909 UK-2003)); Nancy Eleanor ( 2 Aug 1911 Frere Town-2002); Richard Harry Woolley (10 July 1915 Frere Town-1942); John Kenneth (24 Oct 1916 Frere Town-1932); another
Book Reference: Gillett, HBEA, EA & Rhodesia, Drumkey, Foster, North, EAHB 1907, Barnes, Red Book 1912
General Information:
East Africa & Rhodesia - 28/7/55 - Mrs E.K.F. Shepherd, widow of Dr. Richard Kenneth Shepherd, a former missionary at Mzizima Hospital, Mombasa, and daughter of Archdeacon H.K. Binns, a missionary in Mombasa from 1875 to 1923, has died in Nairobi at the age of 72. Dr. and Mrs Shepherd left Kenya in 1922 and settled in Cardiff, where he died 24 years later. At the time of her death Mrs Shepherd was staying with her daughter, Mrs Nancy Shepherd, of the Community Development Department of Kenya.
Foster - Lay Member from Freretown at the Synod of the Diocese of Mombasa 1918
North has Dr. Richard Kenneth Shepard - CMS BEA - b. 26/2/1882 Bridgetown Barbados; accepted as missionary in EA but to spend a year in Uganda to study the treatment of tropical diseases 7/3/1905; d. 1946 Cardiff
Barnes - Nairobi City Park Cemetery - Eleanor Shepherd, died 11 Jul 1953 aged 72
Red Book 1912 - R.K. Shepherd - Mombasa
Red Book 1912 - Mzizima Hospital and Dispensary - Dr. R.K. Shepherd MB, BS, BSC
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