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Name: CALLANDER, William Wright

Birth Date: 7 Apr 1888 Ilminster, bapt. 17 May

Death Date: 16 Oct 1954 Bedford

First Date: 1920

Profession: Standard Bank of SA bank manager

Area: Nyeri, Nairobi

Married: Eveline Mary b. 11 Sep 1897

Children: William Harte (15 May 1927); Jean Elizabeth (30 Mar 1930); Patricia (1930)

Book Reference: EA & Rhodesia, Red 22

War Service: King's Royal Rifles

General Information:

East Africa & Rhodesia - 11/11/54 - Mr W.W. Callender, who has died in England at the age of 65, had served the Standard Bank of South Africa in its branches in Salisbury, Bindura, Lourenço Marques, and Beira before he went to East Africa in 1920. Then he served in Lindi, Moshi, Bukoba, Nyeri and Nairobi before becoming manager of the Zanzibar office. He retired from that post and from the bank in April 1939.
Red 22 - W.W. Callander, St. Bk. Of S.A., Lindi, Tanganyika
Ancestry 1925 Passenger list he is travelling with Jean E, Callander, b. 1899, single
1939 England and Wales Register living with wife and 2 children in Bedford
Eveline Mary gave address as Dromore West, Sligo, in 1928 passenger list

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