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Name: SHERWOOD, Peter Orford Bowers (Lieut.-Col.)

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Birth Date: 26 Oct 1903 Brentford

Death Date: 16 Apr 1989 Worthing

First Date: 1930

Last Date: 1973

Profession: Actor. Regular Army; The Stage (Donovan Maule, Nbi.); 'Magic on Safari'; Schoolmaster (St. Andrews Turi Kenya 1954-62 & 1971-73); BBC London & TVS Southampton; Inner Magic Circle

Area: Nairobi, Langata

Married: In Teignmouth, Devon 1936 Marie Theodore Wyatt b. 22 Sep 1911, d. 7 Sep 1997 Yeovil

Children: Judith; Timothy James (6 Feb 1941 Teignmouth-2018); Jane Elizabeth (1947); John

Book Reference: EAWL

War Service: Beds. & Herts. - W. Africa 1940-42; KAR 1942-45, then Ceylon

School: Bedford School, Sandhurst

General Information:

Seconded from Beds. & Herts. Regt. in 1930 to Kenya and Nyasaland - 2 tours 1930-33 and 1933-36.
1950 - Donovan Maule production "This was a Woman" with Basil Hurle-Hobbs, Jean Parnell, Vivian Pickles, Mollie Maule, Michael Partridge (later BBC Newscaster as Michael de Morgan).
1953 - Peter as General manager of Donovan Maule Theatre after leaving the Army. Took a production up to a School in Turi run by the Lavers. The Donovan Maule Theatre was in difficulties during Mau Mau times due to dwindling audiences, so Peter left them and did a conjuring tour at Kenya Coast, Uganda, Tanganyika and the Rhodesias - 'Magic on Safari', which included ventriloquism.   
He was an actor, known for Softly Softly (1966), Mad Dog Morgan (1976) and The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970).

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