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Name: KIRWAN, Brian Edmond Redshaw OBE, FRS
Nee: son of Delaval Francis Kirwan, bro of Patrick Baldock and John Delaval Kirwan
Birth Date: 7 Oct 1913 Kampala
Death Date: 26 Oct 2005 Cheltenham
First Date: 1937
Profession: Geol Survey, Uganda; Community Devel Officer Uganda
Area: Entebbe, Uganda
Married: In Rotherham 1945 Nancy Grayson b. 16.8.1917, d. 14 Oct 2008 Cheltenham
Children: Ronald (24.12.1946); Peter; Jennifer
Author: A Runyankore Grammar (1957); Elementary Luganda (1951)
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Colonial, Uganda Staff, mini-Sitrep XXIX
War Service: Military service 1939-43, Lieut.
School: Privately; Glasgow Univ 1948;University of London
General Information:
Uganda Staff 1938 - Laboratory Assistant, Geological Survey, Entebbe, originally Junior Clerk, Education Dept 1931
Colonial - Lab apprentice, Uganda 1934; Lab Asst. Geol. Survey 1939; Asst. Infn. Officer 1947; Community Develop. Officer 1952-60
Pre-war volunteer to the Kenya Regiment (KR 594).
MBE 1960