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Name: PALFREMAN, John Anthony OBE
Birth Date: 15 Mar 1904 London
Death Date: 18 Oct 1969 Battle, Sussex
First Date: 1926
Profession: Principal Immigration Officer 1953
Area: Kiambu 1939, Nairobi
Married: Joan Alwelda b. 1899, d.11 Jan 1956
Book Reference: Habari 21, Golf, Staff 39, Staff 53, Red 31, Karen 50, Colonial, EA & Rhodesia, Barnes, O&C, Dominion
School: Malvern College and Brasenose College Oxford 1923-26
General Information:
Staff 39 - Asst. Superintendent of Police, Kenya in 1939, appointed 1926. Originally Asst. Supdt. 1926.
Karen 50 - President of Karen CC in 1953, 1962, Captain in 1949
Colonial - Asst. Supt. Police 1926; Supt. 1941; Prin. Immig. Offr. 1948
Barnes - Early player for Kenya Police Rugby Club - 1930s
Dominion - Assistant Superintendent of Police - 1930
Gazette - 22/12/1926 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Asst. Supdt. Police - J.A. Palfreman
Member of Kenya Police Boxing Team 1930 (Source: Rev. Laws). First played in the EA Amateur Golf Championship in 1935. Winner of the Railway Open Mixed Foursomes with Mrs Palfreman in 1932.
Gazette 7 Feb 1956 wife's probate
Ancestry Passenger list 12 Apr 1951 Mombasa-London he travelled with Edith K. Palfreman , housewife, b. 1901