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Name: FANNIN, Charles Gower MC

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Birth Date: 21 July 1890 South Africa

Death Date: 23 May 1960 Mombasa

First Date: 1920

Last Date: 1960

Profession: Civil engineer. Director of Surveys, Lands & Settlement Dept., in 1939, appointed 1937. Originally Temp. Surveyor 1920. Acting Commissioner for Lands & Settlement in 1939

Area: Nairobi, Mombasa

Married: 1. In Woolwich 1911 Lilias Margaret Adair Ramsay b. 25 Apr 1891 Stalmine, d. 1971 Worthing Lancs. (div. 1928); 2. In Nairobi 1929 Katherine Mary Trood b. 24 Dec 1902 Darjeeling, on tea estate in Bhutan, India, d. 27 Nov 1970 Nairobi

Book Reference: Staff 39, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Mombasa, Colonial, Red 22, O&C, Dominion, Barnes, A. Allen, Foster

War Service: 1/1st Lond. Heavy Bty. RGA 1915-16, Adjt., 7th HA Group 1917; Asst. Inspr. Guns Woolwich 1918-19

School: Hilton Coll. Natal; Rhodes Scholar Exeter Coll. Oxford in 1908-11; BA (Oxon), Assoc. Inst. CE

General Information:

Mombasa - A keen cricketer and Chairman of Mombasa Sports Club 1933-34
Red 22 has C.G. Fannin, Survey Dept., Gazi, Vanga Dist., Tanganyika AND G. Fanning, Survey Dept., Mombasa
Dominion - Public Works Department - Survey & Registration Dept. - District Surveyor - 1930
Mombasa cemetery - Charles G. Fannin, buried 23 May 1960 age 69, European Hospital, Cerebral Embolism
A. Allen - C.G. Fannin was promoted to Chief Surveyor, Kenya in September 1937.
Foster - He and his wife disliked worshipping in the same church as Africans
Web - National Archives - Divorce Court - 1928 - Appellant: Charles Gower Fannin. Respondent: Lilas Margaret Adair Fannin. Co-respondent: Bernard Fleming. Type: Husband's petition for divorce.
KAD 1922 Temporary Surveyor, Cadastral Branch, Survey Dept.
Gazette - 26/9/1923 - Voters Register - Coast - Charles Gower Fannin, Government Surveyor, Land Survey Office, Mombasa
Judy Aldrick The Fannin Papers 2014
Gazette 8 May 1962 probate
1939 England and Wales Register staying in Regent Palace Hotel, London - Director of Surveys, Kenya (wife not with him)

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