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Name: CLARKE, Paul Humphrey
Photo Source: facial photo from East African Standard
Birth Date: 17 June 1891 Godstone, bapt. 25 July
Death Date: 17 July 1946 Nairobi
First Date: 1930
Profession: Farmer
Area: Charity Farm Nyeri
Married: In Exeter 25 Sep 1927 Joyce Chicheley-Plowden b. 27 Dec 1890 Lahore, India, d. 6 Aug 1934, nurse
Children: Paul Ivor (6 Apr 1931 Hartley Wintney-9 Dec 1977 Cape Town); Humphrey (1930); Barbara Arlaud (1928 Nairobi-1 Jan 2017 Queensland, Australia)
Book Reference: Red 31, Hut, Nicholls
War Service: WW1 with EAMR - C Sqdn. 9/8/14 - 14/9/15
General Information:
Nicholls - WW2 - Nyeri was not an easy administrative posting, having as it did such eccentric residents as John Boyes, self-styled king of the Kikuyu (no Kikuyu ever accepted his claim that members of their tribe had made him king) who was at perpetual war with his aggressive neighbour Paul Clarke, through whose land Boyes unfortunately had to pass to get to his farm.
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Aberdare Voters List
Memoirs of Robin Wainwright Bodleian Library Mss Brit.Emp.s.524 Next to Boyes lived Paul Clarke who was even more eccentric than Boyes. Boyes' land could only be reached by passing through Clatke's land. He built a road which Clarke ploughed up and he built a bridge which Clarke burned. Wainright had to settle all this. Clarke was summoned as a juror to a murder case to be heard by the chief justice in Nyeri. He turned up in trousers torn off and frayed halfway up the leg and he then said he could not be a juror because he was too deaf.