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Name: SYSON, William Smith (Rev. Father)
Birth Date: 5.3.1876 Standgate, Kent
Death Date: 19.3.1970 Canterbury
First Date: 1909
Profession: Teso Boys' High School - originally founded and has since been carried on so successfully by Rev. S. Syson
Area: Teso, Uganda
Married: In Hougham-in-Dover, Kent 10.11.1909 Mabel Rigden b. 14 June 1880 Dover, d. 25.10.1949 Weymouth
Book Reference: Roome, Red 22, Rabai, Barnes, Red Book 1912, North
General Information:
Red 22 - CMS, Ngora, Mbale
Rabai - In 1909 when Mr W.S. Syson decided that, since Nandi people were not at all interested in school education, an agricultural course might appeal to them, he failed to realise that as pastoralists they considered crop growing beneath them.
Barnes - St Paul's Namirembe Cemetery - in memory of the infant daughter of William S. and Mabel Syson of such is the kingdom of heaven
Red Book 1912 - W.S. Syson - Nandi