Trans Nzoia Scrap Book - 'The Stoneham Museum' - The Stoneham Museum, now the Western Kenya Museum, was founded by Lieut.-Col. H.F. Stoneham, OBE, FZS, on his Estate twelve miles from Kitale in 1926, and will during 1969 be moved to a site on the left side of the main road entering the town and facing Hospital Hill. Colonel Stoneham's interest in collecting birds and butterflies started at school but, unlike most boys, he kept up his interest after he had left King's College School and maintained it during his career in the Army. After leaving the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he was posted to the 1st Bn. The East Surrey Regiment, with whom he was serving when severely wounded in the retreat from Mons in 1914, and permanently incapacitated. In 1916 he was posted to Gen. Smuts' Staff with the British Forces in East Africa. Later he served in India and in Mesopotamia, and after the War with the KAR in Uganda, retiring from the Army in 1925. He founded the Museum next year and most of his earlier collections were transferred from his father's house in England to Kitale, where they were temporarily housed in mud and wattle thatched buildings. The Museum was private until 1936, when it was granted a Certificate of Incorporation as a public Museum by the then Governor of Kenya, Sir Joseph Byrne. ……… Colonel Stoneham died in September 1966 in his 78th year …..

Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Capt. H.F. Stoneham, OBE, "Stoneleigh", Reigate, Surrey - Farm 135

Kenya Past & present 6 - 1975 - Museum of Western Kenya, Kitale - Lt.-Colonel Hugh Stoneham, an amateur naturalist, lived at Kitale and collected insects, other animals and books from 1894 (when he was 5 years old) until his death in 1966. In 1926 he founded the Stoneham Museum, a private museum, and eventually willed his collections as well as sufficient funds for a new museum building to the Kenyan nation. A new buidling was erected on 5 acres of land on the outskirts of Kitale. In December 1974 the National Museum of Western Kenya at Kitale was opened ……..

Barnes - Kitale Cemetery - Hugh Frederic Stoneham - died 27 Sep 1966

Breath - founder of a museum and research station at Kitale.

Red 31 has Capt. H.E. Stoneham  OBE, FZC, East Surrey Estates, Kitale.

Hut has Lt.Col. Hugh F. Stoneham OBE 1930 Museum, E. Surrey Coffee Estate

Gazette 9 June 1967 probate