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Name: VINCENT, Frederick Richard
Nee: bro of Harry Vivian Vincent
Birth Date: 9.1.1867 Glastonbury
Death Date: 21.11.1916 Eldoret, gunshot wound, suicide?
First Date: 1895
Last Date: 1902
Profession: With A. J. Murrow he founded a pack-donkey, hamali cart and mule waggon business with stables at the junction of Duke St. & Jeevanjee St. Later farmed in Trans Nzoia. Business sold to 2 railway employees Messrs Hunter & Higgs
Area: Nairobi, Trans Nzoia, 1912 Eldoret, EAHB 1906 Mbagathi River
Married: In Glastonbury 7 Sep 1904 Ellen Murrow b. 20 Mar 1870 Glastonbury, d. 1955 Wells
Children: Frederick Edward Harry (19 June 1905 Glastonbury-1979)
Book Reference: Gillett, SE, Hut, EAMR, North, Drumkey, Land, EAHB 1906, Gazette, Harmony, EAHB 1907, Leader14, Chandler, Red Book 1912
War Service: WW1 with EAMR - C Sqdn. 19/9/14
General Information:
SE - F.R. Vincent - Sept 1907
North - Zanzibar 1895; transporting loads on road to Uganda Jan 1899; badly injured by leopard, in hospital at Ravine 13/7/1900; He and Dr. A.E. Atkinson blew up some Nandi with gunpowder after dispute over ivory, both were tried for murder & acquitted but Vincent was to be deported to SA, 1902; Listed as prospector, resident at Nakuru (EAM) 14/3/1903; dep. Kampala with Claud Smith & large caravan going down the River Nile 11/4/1903; Land Grant application Bagathi 2/5/1904; Firearm registered Mombasa 24/4/1905; Mbagathi River, Dagoretti Oct 1905; Committee member of Colonists Association, Nairobi Dec 1905
Drumkey 1909 - Directory of Residents - S.R. Vincent, Mbagathi ??
Land - 1908 - F.R. Vincent - Grazing, 1000.6 acres, M'Bagathi River, 2-5-04, Registered 16-7-08
Land - 1908 - F.R. Vincent - Grazing, 610.4 acres, Mbagathi River, 6-2-08, Registered 27-6-08
Land - 1907 - P.C. Filios and F.R. Vincent - Building, 7500 sq.ft., Nairobi, 20-6-04, Registered 7-3-07
Land - 1910 - F.R. Vincent - Grazing and agricultural, 2790 acres (Farm No. 63) - Uasin Gishu - 25/7/10 - Leasehold under Occupation Licence for 5 to 99 years from 1/8/10 - Registered 8/9/10
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Uasin Gishu Plateau - F.R. Vincent, Farm No. 63
Member of Lodge Harmony - Initiated 3/10/10, age 43, Farmer, Nairobi, died 1916
Red Book 1912 - R.F. Vincent - Kericho
Barnes - Eldoret Club - Grave - In Loving Memory of Frederick Richard Vincent, died November 21 1916 aged 49 - Thy Will be Done
Fred Vincent occupied Farm 63 which was next to "Farm 64", the farm which ultimately became Eldoret town. The brothers were buried on their land which in due course became part of that land now occupied by the Eldoret Club. The graves are adjacent to the 8th tee on the golf course According to an account in " "64" Eldoret, Yesteryear", written by Rosemary Blanche, Harry was shot by his brother Frederick during a domestic argument. Frederick himself later died as a result of being struck by lightning.
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