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Name: ANDREWES, Henry Leslie
Birth Date: 28 Nov 1873 Hampstead
First Date: 1914
Profession: Farmer
Area: Lumbwa, Kiambu
Book Reference: KAD, Hut, Red 22, Gazette, Alumni, Web, Red 19, KAD, Kiambu Scrapbook
School: Reading & King's College Cambridge
General Information:
Red 22 - H.L. Andrews, Lumbwa
Gazette - 13/9/16 - Probate & Admin. - James George Findlay of Nairobi who died in London 1/5/14. Applied for by Henry Leslie Andrewes of Deepdene, Kiambu
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Kiambu - H.L. Andrewes, Deepdene, Kiambu
Alumni - Went to India 1899 and engaged in tea planting in the Nilgiri Hills. Left India 1913. Went to Kenya Colony; engaged there in coffee-planting. During the Great War served in the Tanganyika Territory, 1917-18. Subsequently engaged in tutorial work till 1922. Returned to England.
Web - Migaa Estate - At the end of 1913 James Findlay bought Deepdene - 300 acres - for £6000 from a Captain Muller [Moller] from Sweden. In 1914 James Findlay's son Kenneth J. Findlay and H.L. Andrews came from Burma and India respectively to manage it.
Red Book 1919 - H L Andrewes - Settler, Kyambu
Hut - H. Leslie Andrews 1914 Kiambu married Miss Findlay
Kiambu Scrapbook - Another early car to appear in Kiambu was brought out in January 1914 by Mr Leslie Andrewes, son-in-law of Mr J.G. Findlay.