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Name: CUNINGHAME, Alan Rhodes
Nee: bro of Charles Lennox Cunninghame [spelt surname differently]
Birth Date: 6 July 1878 Sale, Victoria, Australia
Death Date: 28 Jan 1928 Thika
First Date: 1915
Profession: Farmer.
Area: 1919 'Muthuri', Chania Bridge
Married: In Seale, Surrey 1 July 1908 Mary Oakes bapt 27 Aug 1870 Aldershot, d. 28 Aug 1951 Bristol
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Hut, Red 22, Gazette, EAMR, Leader14, Red 19
War Service: EAMR has A. Cunningham - A Sqdn. 7/9/14 - 28/9/14
General Information:
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Fort Hall - A.R. Cunninghame, Mituri, Chania Bridge
Gazette 17/7/1918 - Dissolution of Partnership between Alan Rhodes Cuninghame, John Hudson Goodwin and Noel Goodwin under the name or style of Cuninghame and Goodwin dissolved by mutual consent. Business will be carried on by Alan Rhodes Cuninghame
Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Ukamba Area - Alan Rhodes Cuninghame - Coffee Planter, Chania Bridge and Mary Cuninghame - Married woman, Chania Bridge
Red Book 1919 - Coffee Planters' Union of BEA, Nairobi - Hon. Secretary - Thika - A.R. Cuninghame
Red Book 1919 - East Africa Amateur Boxing Association, Nairobi - Vice-President - A.R. Cuninghame
Red 25 - President, Thika Sports Club
Old Africa - 20-6-16 - Christine Nicholls - Alan Cuninghame, whom Brian Havelock Potts describes as ‘a devious fellow,’ put the young man into a grass rondavel and spent the days shooting birds rather than overseeing the clearing of the land. His wife Mary, a large Irish lady and wonderful cook, was unsuccessful in keeping an eye on her husband. Every day Cuninghame stationed Potts at the window of the dining hut to warn him of Mary’s approach. Cuninghame downed two scotches but at Potts’s whistle put a lime juice in his hand, saying to his wife that he was dying of thirst. Potts claimed he did all the work on the farm and earned the name Waihinya (strong and quick) from the Kikuyu workers after he rescued a man from an overturned plough. Potts clearly got fed up and left Cuninghame in order to start his own farm with Hubert Wood at Chania Bridge. Jiggers in the feet and carbuncles on arm and leg joints were constant hazards. The nights were filled with the roar of lions, howls of hyenas and ping of mosquitoes.