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Name: DE PERIGNY, Roger Marie Felix Symon 'Pepe', Count
Birth Date: 28 Apr 1875 Paris
Death Date: 5 Nov 1945 Naivasha, buried on Kongoni Farm
First Date: 1930s
Profession: Owned Kongoni Farm, Naivasha during the thirties, which was managed at one time by R.H. Marshall
Area: Naivasha
Married: 1. In 1915 Frances Evelyn Bostwick Voronoff b. 7 June 1872 Manhattan, d. 3 Mar 1921 Paris; 2. In 1923 Margaret Copley Thaw b. 9 Jan 1877 Pittsburgh, USA, d. 9 Jan 1942 Naivasha
Book Reference: EAWL, Golf, Carnelley
General Information:
Source: Ann Staniland
Carnelley - Naivasha - On, round the South Lake Road, was Kongoni Farm, with a vast house, surrounding a quadrangle and was the scene of some fairly heavy gambling, which my father {Stephen Carnelley}, a great card player, often took part in. It was owned by Count and Countess Perigny. She was Thor - American Bankers and, in those days during the depression earned £80,000 - after Income Tax! Pepe, her husband, was always complaining because she gave him a smaller allowance than his friend Gabriel Prudhomme ……….. After the war when the Perignyeys [sic] had died and been buried in the garden, the place was inherited by the Whitneys from America …….. While at Kongoni, the Perigneys [sic] had the most beautiful herd of Ayrshires with the most up-to-date milking sheds in Kenya. They also had beef cattle and Merino sheep, the wool of which, Countess Perigney had a band of African women spinning and weaving really excellent tweed cloth. They were also great race horse owners.
President of Naivasha Sports Club in 1940-44
Gazette 21 May 1948 probate