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Name: LONG, Charles Ernest (Capt.)
Photo Source: portrait by his father Edwin Long, RA
Birth Date: 1867 Kensington
Death Date: 18 Aug 1926 Nyeri, riding accident ?1928 (on wife's gravestone)
First Date: 1922
Last Date: 1926
Profession: Bought 100 acres of land at Timau from W. Carles in 1924, after Carles' house burnt down, for £100
Area: Timau, Inge Farm, 1925 Nyeri
Married: In London 15 Dec 1892 (div. 1905) Ethel Victoria Goode b. 1872 London, d. 16 Feb 1939 Berkshire
Children: Violet (10 Nov 1896 Belton, Leics.-1987); Hubert Kildare (1900 Naas, Ireland-1975)
Book Reference: Foster, KAD, Red 25, Hut, Burke
War Service: Lieut. Grenadier Guards
General Information:
Foster - Alas, in 1926 Long was seriously injured in a riding accident; Jack Appelby rode off at once to summon the nearest doctor, who was based at Meru some 40 miles away. Appelby was unfortunately charged by elephants in the Meru forest and returned empty handed to find that Long had already died. ......…
Major Lionel Gascoigne built the house on Inge farm for Captain Long in 1924. Long left the property in his will to Joyce Campbell Clause, who owned it from 1926-43, when she sold it to Chris Berryman. The house was still standing in 1979 much improved. It had a cedar shingle roof and cedar off-cut walls above a four foot high stone wall; a stone fireplace and the floors were wooden. The wind whistled through the gaps in the off-cut walls.
Gazette - 5/8/1925 - Voters Register - Kenya Province - Ernest Long, Settler PO Nanyuki
Gazette - 6/10/1926 - Probate and Administration - Capt. Charles Ernest Long who died at North Nyeri on 18 August 1926
Hut - injured riding accident