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Name: KNOX, Gerald Irvine

Nee: son of John Needham Knox, RN

Birth Date: 25 May 1927 Irvinestown, Fremanagh

Death Date: 12 Aug 2009 Moggerhammer, Bedford

First Date: 1950

Last Date: 1974

Profession: With the Lands Dept. and then farmed at W. Kilimanjaro before moving to farm at Makuyu in 1965 before returning to UK to farm in Norfolk

Area: Dar es Salaam, Makuyu

Married: In Nairobi Dec 1962 Susan Benbow (div.) b. 1940 London, d. 9 Mar 2003 Norwich

Children: Cathryn (1963); Jeremy (1967)

Book Reference: EAWL

School: Castle Irvine School; Enniskillen Technical College

General Information:

Source: Mrs Valerie Letham
1975 became farm manager for Hapton Hall Estate near Norwich.
Keen sailor - did charter yacht delivery, completed 2 Atlantic crossings.
Death Index has death as 12 Aug 2009, but a Public Member document had 8 Dec 2009 (UK/US date confusion?)

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