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Name: BOOTH, John Edwin Piercy OBE
Birth Date: 26 Dec 1907 Norbiton, Surrey
Death Date: 29 May 1983 Hove
First Date: 1932
Profession: Provincial Agric. Officer in 1953. Originally Agric. Officer 1932. On leave pending retirement in 1953.
Area: Njoro, 1930 Eldoret, 1925 Kisumu
Married: 1. Stella Alice b. 1905, d. 29 Mar 1998 Hove; 2. In Bournemouth 1964 Vera M. Hards (prev. m. Mr Rex in Croydon 1953)
Children: Evelyn; Jennifer Alice (1937); Gillian Ida (1942)
Book Reference: Staff 53, Colonial, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Dominion, Sunman
War Service: Military service 1939-42, Captain
School: King's College School, Wye College, St. John's College Oxford BSc Agric. (Lond), Dip. Agric. (Wye), AICTA
General Information:
Red 25 has P. Booth, Senior Agricultural Officer, Divison of Native Agric., Agricultural Dept., Kisumu
Dominion - Agricultural Department - Agricultural Officer - 1930
Sunman - 1932-38 Nyanza (including Bukutra Ag Training College); 1938-39 Nairobi; 1939-42 Army; 1943-49 Principal Egerton College; 1949-52 Head of Ag in Nyanza Province; 1952 retired - called to the bar in 1955
Gazette - 12/6/1951 - Birthday Honours - OBE - Agricultural Officer
Colonial - Principal Egerton School of Agriculture 1947
Blue Book 1936 appt. 12.2.1932