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Name: HATELY, Thomas Legerwood OBE

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Nee: bro of Gordon Hately

Birth Date: 13 Apr 1877 Edinburgh

Death Date: 15 Oct 1957 Barham, Kent

First Date: 1911

Profession: Land and Agric Bank

Area: 1925 c/o S. Jacobs Ltd., Nairobi, 1930 Mellerstane, Thika

Married: 1. 2 Nov 1905 Agnes Ellen Hyslop b. 16 Dec 1879; 2. Eileen Mary Elizabeth Bowers b. 14 Jan 1895 Dublin, d. 3 Nov 1961 Lambeth (prev. m. to Guy Vernon Champion Rawlins 1885-1919 - see her entry under Rawlins)

Children: Walter (12 Sep 1906); Thomas Legerwood (26 Mar 1909); Jeannie Gray (21 Oct 1912)

Book Reference: Golf, Horizon, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, EA & Rhodesia, Mombasa, Gazette, Leader14

School: George Watson's College

General Information:

Horizon - President of the Fly Fishers' Club - a dour and doughty Scot.
Red 25 - Hon. Treasurer, Nairobi Chamber of Commerce
East Africa & Rhodesia - 21/11/57 - Mr Thomas Legerwood Hateley, OBE, who has died in this country at the age of 79, spent nearly 40 years in Kenya, in which he was widely known for his work with the Land and Agricultural Bank and as a golfer, angler, speaker, writer, and friend of many good causes. Born in Edinburgh, and educated at George Watson's College, in that city, he went to India as a young man, and in 1911 opened the Nairobi branch of Whiteaway Laidlaw & Co. Ltd. Whom he left 10 years later to become managing director of S. Jacobs Ltd. On its establishment in 1930 he joined the staff of the Land and Agricultural Bank of Kenya, of which a great friend, Sidney Thornton, had been appointed secretary, a post to which Hateley was to succeed on Thornton's death. Both were men of staunch character who were widely trusted, and they gave good counsel as well as material help to many Kenya settlers in times of difficulties. "Tammas" Hateley was in his day one of Kenya's best and wittiest after-dinner speakers, and he was a frequent contributor to the Press. He was joint author with his friend Hugh Copley, of "Angling in East Africa" and he wrote "Essays in Exile". He had been president of the Nairobi branch of the Caledonian Society and of the Kenya Fly Fishers' Club, and captain of the Royal Nairobi Golf Club. To prove his belief that the climate of Kenya is not deleterious to the healthy European, he once played nine holes of golf on the Nairobi course in the early morning of one day and before its close had played nine holes each on the Gilgil, Njoro, and Eldoret links, motoring some 240 miles in the accomplishment of this picturesque feat - when roads were very far from good.
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Nairobi District - T.L. Hateley, Whiteway Laidlaw and Co.
Gazette 5/4/1938 - Honorary Game Warden
Golf - Article on the very early days of golf in EA. Captain of Nairobi Golf Club in 1929. Winner of the Railway Open Mixed Foursomes in 1933 with Mrs Tannahill. Runner-up in 1932 with Mrs Gilbert
Gazette - Voters List 1936 - Nairobi South - Thomas Legerwood Hately, Ngong Road, Land Bank, Nbi
Gazette 29 Apr 1958 probate required by Eileen Mary Elizabeth
Gazette 5 Feb 1963 wife's probate
Penelope Deubel: when he retired, he and Eileen bought a farm at Kiganjo with beautiful views of Mt Kenya and on the edge of the forest with a lovely river - perfect for the fly fishing they both so loved.  However they went to England when Mau Mau activity in that area became too dangerous and unpleasant…Must have left for England in 1953 / 4 ? hoping to return but Thomas died there in November 1957 and Eileen on 02.11.1960.

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