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Name: SKELTON, Robert Jeremiah
Birth Date: 30 Apr 1892 Sheffield
Death Date: 1983 Northallerton
First Date: 1922
Profession: Seems to have been amongst the early operators of Timau Store and Post Office in the late 1920s
Area: Timau, Kericho, 1930 Nairobi
Married: Maud Alice Harrison d. 26 June 1955 Northallerton
Children: Valerie Maud (18 Aug 1920 Knaresborough-9 May 1989 Masham) (m. Hon. Roderick John Ward, div. 1947, then 1948 Sir Richard Llewellyn Barwick, div. 1968, then 1972 Col. Walter Lancaster Hey)
Book Reference: Foster, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Debrett, Burke, Peerage
General Information:
Gazette - 12/9/1923 - Dissolution of Partnership of Butchers between Maurice King of Mombasa and Mrs Maud Alice Skelton wife of Robert Jeremiah Skelton, Canstaff near Londiani. Mrs Skelton will continue the business
Gazette - Voters List 1936 - Robert Skelton, Manager & Sec. Taws Ltd, Box 980, Muthaiga and Maud Alice Skelton, Secretary, Muthaiga
Red 22 - R.G. Skelton, Kericho
Red 25 - c/o Equator Saw Mills, Nairobi.
Hut has R.G. Skelton 1922 Kericho
Gazette 18 Oct 1955 wife's probate