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Name: BISS, Evan Ebenezer
Birth Date: 14 Feb 1878 Calcutta
Death Date: 16 May 1946 Wells
First Date: 1924
Last Date: 1933
Profession: Schools' inspector
Area: Nairobi
Married: Amelia Bagshawe Johnstone b. 21 Oct 1883 Bothwell, Lanarkshire, d. 24 Sep 1973 Kingston, Surrey
Children: Amelia Annie (Macdonald) (21 Nov 1905 S. Africa-1990); Irene Mary (28 Aug 1907 Standerton, Transvaal-1998); Evan Alexander (4 Jan 1910 S. Africa-27 Mar 1944 war grave)
Book Reference: Tignor, Red 25, Red 31, Joelson, Nicholls, Dominion, Foster
General Information:
Joelson - Notes in proof copy of 'Eastern Africa Today' - Dec. 1931 - Friends Africa Mission - Quakers - are ceremoniously laying the 'corner stone' of a new school house …… the acting Director of Education, the Hon. Mr E.E. Biss, accepting a hard-wood mallet from Mr F.N. Hoyt, the present head of the mission, laid the corner-stone …..
Nicholls - held a poetry discussion group in his own house.
Dominion - Education Department - Chief Inspector of Schools - 1930
Tignor - Joined Orr's staff as a school's inspector in 1924.
Red 31 - Education Dept.
Gazette - 7/1/1925 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Inspector Education - E.E. Biss
Gazette - 24/1/1933 - Departed on leave pending retirement
Gazette - Voters List 1936 - Evan Ebenezer Biss, Retired, Hospital Rd. and Amelia Bagshawe Biss, Hospital Rd., Nbi
Gazette 15 July 1947 probate