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Name: GRAMMATICAS, Leonidas
Birth Date: 1881
Death Date: 3 Mar 1956 Athens
First Date: 1908
Profession: Farmer
Area: Tanganyika, Uganda, Kampi ya Moto
Married: ?Adriani d. 1964 Zurich
Book Reference: EA & Rhodesia
General Information:
East Africa & Rhodesia - 24/5/56 - Mr Leonidas Grammaticas, who has died in Athens at the age of 75, went to Tanganyika Territory (then German East Africa) in 1908, and was a fuel contractor to the railway and engaged in other business and farming until the 1914-18 war. He established the East African Tobacco Co. Ltd., in Tanganyika in 1932, and 12 years later went to Uganda on its behalf. In 1948 he bought a sisal plantation near Kampi ya Moto, Kenya, and registered it as Athinai Sisal Estate, Ltd., and he also formed Solai Sisal Estates Ltd.
Gazette 24 Apr 1956 probate
Gazette 17 Mar 1964 probate for Mrs Adriani Grammaticas who d on or before 20 Jan 1964 in Zurich