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Name: BENTLEY, George Herbert (Junior)
Nee: son of Dr. George Herbert Bentley
Birth Date: 3 Aug 1884 Kirkliston, West Lothian
Death Date: 21 July 1933 Nairobi
First Date: 1925
Profession: Farmer, coffee
Area: Kiambu
Married: In Kiambu 20 July 1925 ?1926 Nancy Ellis b. 30 June 1906 Bury, Lancs., d. 6 Apr 2004 Cornwall
Children: George Campbell (7 July 1926 Kiambu-1984); Fiona Frances (1 May 1928 Kiambu-1979); Jean (24 June 1929 Nairobi)
Book Reference: Red 25, Red 31, Hut, EAMR, Wed, Red 22, Barnes, Leader14
War Service: WW1 with EAMR - B Sqdn 15/10/15
General Information:
Red 22 - G.H. Bentley (Junior), Kiambu
Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - George Hubert [sic] Bentley, British, age 49, died 21/7/33. In loving memory of / G H Bentley / died 21st July 1933 / aged 49
St. Paul's Church, Kiambu cemetery - 'This sanctuary was erected by his friends in memory of George Herbert Bentley, who died July 21st 1933'
Leader14 - G.A. Bentley - Nairobi ?
Gazette 12/5/1919 - Dissolution of partnership between P.J.H. Coldham and G.H. Bentley carrying on business at Kyambu under the style or form of 'Coldham and Bentley' dissolved as from 1/3/1919.
Gazette 29 Aug 1933 probate for George Herbert Bentley
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Kiambu - C.H. Bentley, Anmer, Kiambu ? G.H. Bentley
Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Kikuyu - George Herbert Bentley, MD, Kabazi, Kiambu and Marion Margaret Bentley, Kabazi, Kiambu and George Herbert Bentley (Junior), Coffee Planter, Kabazi, Kiambu
EAS 24 July 1933 He was one of the most successful coffee planters in East Africa, for many years holding the record of having obtained 116 tons of coffee from 106 acres. Successful because he, like PJH Coldham, his former partner, applied practical principles learnt during three years of mixed farming in eastern Canada. For years he was with a Telegraph Company serving on their stations at Seychelles, Gibraltar and Suez. Then he turned his attention to farming and went to Canada until in 1911 he decided to come to Kenya on the advice of his brother JC Bentley who had been in the country for six years. Bentley went into partnership with Coldham at Kiambu which continued until after the war although Bentley was on active service most of that time. He joined the EAMR and was wounded near Taveta. He was convalescent for a year then he went back to the Mechanical Transport serving as a corporal. Dysentery and fever developed towards the end of the war and he was sent home. Resuming his coffee interests he took over Kabaze estate which now comprises 160 acres on the coffee. In 1925 he married Miss Ellis of Liverpool and there are three children of the marriage, the eldest aged seven years. Several weeks ago Bentley contracted influenza but declined to give up his work on the estate. Pneumonia developed and death took place.