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Name: MITCHELL, Lewis George CMG, KPM, CPM

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Photo Source: David Reeve

Birth Date: 29.6.1911 India

Death Date: 26.9.1992 Limuru

First Date: 1937

Profession: Asst. Inspector, Kenya Police in 1939, appointed 1938. Originally 2nd Grade Asst. Insp. 1937. Senior Super in 1953 - later A.C.P.

Area: Soy 1939, Nairobi

Married: In Limuru 1946 Evelyn McDonell b. 1.7.1909, d. 1998 (dau of A.B. McDonell)

Children: Fiona (26.11.1946); Arnold Lewis (28.7.1949); Hilary (18.6.1951)

Book Reference: Staff 39, Staff 53, Hut, Colonial, Debrett, Limuru, Masonic, Barnes

School: Glasgow Academy

General Information:

Colonial - Asst. Inspector, Police 1937; Asst. Supt. 1946; Supt. 1951; Senior 1953;  Asst. Commissioner 1954; Senior 1957; Dep. Commissioner 1959
Limuru - Obituary - Evelyn McDonell (Mitchell) - at LGS from its foundation in 1922 - Evelyn Mitchell, who has died aged 88, was a much respected figure in Kenya. Her father was one of the first tea planters in East Africa and Evelyn was born on his farm at Limuru. She spent her early years among the Kikuyu and learned to speak Kikuyu and Swahili. So that she and her sisters could go to school, their father founded the school at Limuru. Evelyn completed her schooling at St. Swithun's, Winchester, where she excelled at games.
Back in Africa, she became a housekeeper at Government House, Nairobi, and later in Dar-es Salaam and then Zomba, the capital of Nyasaland,(now Malawi). On returning to Kenya, she married Lewis Mitchell of the Kenyan Police, and in the 1960s opened her father's farm as a guest house for service personnel from Aden. In 1970 she opened it to tourists as a typical early settler establishment. Former American President Jimmy Carter was one of the many visitors she entertained there with stories of early colonial days. Evelyn Mitchell and her husband, who predeceased her, had a son and two daughters, all of whom still live on the farm.
Masonic - Hon GBB
Barnes - Limuru Cemetery - Lewis George Mitchell, KPM, CMG, 1911-1992, AND his beloved wife Evelyn nee McDonell, 'Wanjiru' 1909 - 1998
Hut - CMG, KPM 1971 Kiambethu Farm Limuru

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