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Name: CALDERWOOD, Robert George Matheson OBE, MC 'George' (Rev.)
Birth Date: 5 May 1896 Garelochhead, Rhu, Dunbartonshire
Death Date: 1 Jan 1968 Edinburgh
First Date: 1923
Profession: Church of Scotland Missionary. Dr. Arthur retired in 1937 after 30 years devoted service and was succeeded by Rev. R.G.M. Calderwood
Area: Tumutumu, Nyeri
Married: In Tumutumu 20 Oct 1924 Isobel Shaw Craven b. 1902 Glasgow, d. 6 May 1943 Kikuyu
Children: Anne Macfarlane (1 Nov 1928 Tumutumu-2005); Carol (Dyson); Marjory Isobel (28 Aug 1925 Tumutumu-2011)
Book Reference: Scotland, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, EA & Rhodesia, Barnes, Foster, Chogoria
War Service: Scottish Rifles
General Information:
East Africa & Rhodesia - 7/1/54 - OBE - since 1937 secretary of the Church of Scotland mission council in Kenya, where he went after his ordination in 1922. A member of the Government advisory committee on African education.
Kikuyu cemetery - Isobel Shaw Calderwood - died 6th May 1943 "an helper of many" entered in the Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery Register
Hut - known as 'Kadondi'
Gazette - 6/2/1924 - Voters Register - Ukamba - Robert George Matheson Calderwood, Missionary, Nyeri
Gazette 5 July 1968 probate for Robert George Matheson Calderwood who d. 1 Jan 1968 Edinburgh