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Name: DALE, Ivan Robert OBE
Birth Date: 1904 Streatham
Death Date: 9 Dec 1963 Ermelo, Transvaal, shock as a result of multiple injuries from a motor accident
First Date: 1928
Profession: Forest Dept. Colonial - Asst. conservator forests Kenya 1928; Uganda 1938; senr. asst. consvr. 1945; dep. chief consvr. 1952
Area: Nairobi, Eldoret
Married: 1934 Jean Eleanor McDonald b. 17 May 1912 Queenstown, S. Africa, d. 11 Jan 1993 Nairobi (dau. of Eric Wallace Fraser McDonald)
Children: Linnet (Barnes) (7 Mar 1937 Mombasa); Ivan Patrick (17 Mar 1938 Mombasa-1954 on thw operating table after bearking his nose in a football match); Mark Oliver (1943)
Author: (with P.J. Greenway) Kenya Trees and Shrubs, 1961
Book Reference: Red 31, Hut, Colonial, Ingwe, Angus McDonald, Dominion
School: St. Olave's and Oxford University
General Information:
Dominion - Agricultural Department - Forestry - Assistant Conservator of Forests - 1930
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Uasin Gishu Voters Roll expunged
Gazette 22 Sep 1964 probate
Women in Kenya 1993 He originally worked for the Forest Department in Kenya and was then transferred to Uganda where he eventually became Deputy Director and on retirement was awarded the OBE. He was co-author of the definitive work 'Kenya's Trees and Shrubs' for which his wife typed all the notes. She was very knowledgeable about all the tree shrubs and birds of Kenya and accompanied her husband on numerous foot safaris in the early days of their marriage. After retirement Ivan worked in Swaziland and was killed in a motor accident at Pig's Peak in 1963. His wife returned to Kenya to look after her mother in Karen. She was a dedicated worker for the League of Mercy and the Red Cross and was Secretary of the Karen/Langata branch of the EAWL from its inception. She was a great supporter of her local church and was awarded the MBE on 14 June 1980 in recognition of her work for the community. She contributed regularly to the Overseas Pensioners League benevolent fund and many other charities and in her will many Kenya charities were generously remembered.
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