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Name: GRAHAM, Reginald Moray 'George'

Nee: elder brother of Malcolm Dundas Graham

Birth Date: 26 Mar 1898 Grahamstown

Death Date: 1992 Windsor

First Date: 1925

Profession: Asst. Conservator of Forests in 1939, appointed 1925. Conservator of Forests in 1953

Area: Nairobi, 1930 Mombasa

Married: Vera Irene b. 10.12.1898, d. 18.8.1984 Windsor

Children: Moray Keillour (1934); Elizabeth Heather (1943-12 Oct 2008); Janice Sharon (1950)

Book Reference: Staff 39, Mrs D. Graham, Staff 53, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Colonial, O&C, Dominion

War Service: Military service 1919-22, Indian Army, Capt.

School: St. Andrew's Coll., RMC Sandhurst and Keble College Oxford 1922-25; Forestry Diploma (Oxon)

General Information:

Letter from Mrs D. Graham - He died only a few years ago aged 93. All six children in the family were born in Grahamstown where their father was Resident Magistrate. The town was named after their grandfather who was Colonel of his regiment, the town originally being a garrison town. Reginald Moray was always called George (except by his mother). He went to Sandhurst and then the Indian Army during WW1. After the war he came under the Geddes axe and used his gratuity to go to Oxford and read forestry, subsequently coming to Kenya and joining the forestry department where he spent his working life, most of it at Londiani. After retirement he bought a plot on the Marlborough Estate outside Nairobi where he made a wonderful garden. At Independence he and his wife moved to Spain but as they got older realised that medical care in Spain was impossibly costly, so once again he left a lovely garden and settled in Windsor.
Dominion - Agricultural Department - Forestry - Assistant Conservator of Forests - 1930
Gazette - 8/4/1925 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Asst. Consr. Of Forests - R.M. Graham
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Nyanza Voters list
Blue Book 1931 appt. 5.3.1925

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