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Name: STEPHENSON, John Griffith

Nee: son of Rev John Gordon Stephenson

Birth Date: 26 Feb 1920 Machakos

Death Date: 2021

Nationality: British

First Date: 1920

Profession: Admin Service Col. Officer, Tanganyika 1948-62Cadet, Tanganyika 1948; DO 1950-62

Area: Kenya, Somalia, Tanganyika

Married: 1. Phyllis Ella Blaikie b. 1922, dau of William Blaikie from Thogoto Scots Mission near Kikuyu (div.) 2. In 1964 Yvonne H.

Children: 1. Michael, Alan, David 2. Christopher J., Sara A.

Book Reference: Old Africa magazine issue 87 Feb-Mar 2020, Sitrep 2, Hut, EAWL, Colonial, Red 22

War Service: 1939-41 Kenya Regt., commissioned March 1941, BMA Somalia to 1959

School: Prince of Wales, Nairobi

General Information:

Pre-war volunteer to the Kenya Regiment (KR 663). Formed a camel corps in Somaila in WW".

DO Arusha after the war, the DO in Lindi and KIlwa..

Moved to Karagwe,Tukuyu and Monduli.

Tarined as a pilot and joined Tanzania National Parks. Based at Mikumi.

Started Ruaha Park in 1966. Began Katavi Park.

In 1970 head of Serengeti National Park.

Worked for British AID as adviser to wildlife in Ethiopia 1975-1978. Then worked with UNESCO.

Yvonne ran Kestrel Manor School in Nairobi.

Left Kenya for England 1984, returned to Kenya 2009 and lived at Fairseat.