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Name: FENTON, John 'Jack'

Birth Date: 23 June 1901 Grangetown, Sunderland, Durham

Death Date: 16 June 1977 Ponteland, Northumberland

First Date: 1931

Last Date: 1968

Profession: Initially with Elliots Bakery, then R.O. Hamilton. Director of Companies. Dir. City Brewery Ltd. since 1950

Married: In Nairobi 6 Jan 1929 Anne 'Nan' Florence Patterson b. 13 May 1902 Sunderland, d. 1990 Northumberland West

Children: Margery Donnison (Wylie) (1933-1994 m. John Wylie retired from Kenya Police and died in 1994 in Scotland; John Louis Anthony (11.10.1934 Nairobi)

Book Reference: Who's Who, Red 31, Legion, Patterson family book, EAWL

War Service: Served in Army Supplies Comm., AQMG, EA Command 1945

School: Argyle House, Sunderland and privately

General Information:

Worked with Graysons, McPherson Train and Fenton. Managing Director of City Brewery. Played a big part in the construction of Nairobi dam while he worked in the Ministry of Agriculture after the war. Source - Mrs Margery Wylie

Ray Morrell - He started Grayson & Fenton just as WW2 broke out. Joe Grayson 'took over' the business whilst Jack went off to the EAOC with Jimmy and rose to be a Lt. Col., and eventually the Custodian of Enemy Property. He later formed City Brewery which he ran successfully for some years before selling out to EA Breweries and retiring to the North of England.

Red 31 has J. Fenton, Makupa Causeway, Mombasa

Gazette - Voters List 1936 - John Fenton, c/o R O Hamilton, Box 302, Nbi

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