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Name: GLEDHILL, Eric Irvine 'Ginger'

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Photo Source: William Cherry and Phil Toye

Nee: bro of Henry Gledhill

Birth Date: 5 June 1908 Featherstone, Yorkshire

Death Date: 1996 Tunbridge Wells

First Date: 1932

Profession: Education Officer European Educ. in 1939, appointed 1932. Originally an Asst. Master 1932. Asst. Director of Education in 1953. Taught at Prince of Wales school. Latterly Inspector of European Education

Area: Kabete, Nairobi

Married: Eileen Winifred b. 1907

Children: Jeremy Robin (1939), Andrew Peter (1942)

Book Reference: Staff 39, Staff 53, Sally Dymott, Colonial, Year Book, Barnes, Rugby, Foster

War Service: WW2 with KAR in EA, Major

School: King's School Pontefract and Leeds University; Bcom (Leeds)

General Information:

Retired to Tunbridge Wells. Source - Sally Dymott
Colonial - Prin. Indian Teacher Training Centre 1947; Asst. Dir. Educ. 1953
Year Book - 1953 - p. 279
Cricket - Picture of E.I. Gledhill, coaching enthusiast
Barnes - Played for Nondies RFC in the 1930s
Rugby - Played for Kenya against Stellenbosch University January-February 1935 - E. Gledhill
Rugby - Nondescripts RFC - President - 1950
Rugby - Nondescripts RFC - Vice-Captain - 1936
Rugby - Nondescripts RFC - Hon. Secretary - 1949
Rugby - Nondescripts RFC - Honours Cap - 1935

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