He spent a year at the Natural History Museum studying Coleoptera. Migrated to East Africa where he joined a relative in business in Nairobi. During this time he worked consistently in the Coryndon Museum voluntarily on the Coleoptera. specialising particularly in the Cetoniinae and Buprestidae, and where he was appointed a Trustee. His large collection of insects and books was donated to the Coryndon Museum. He sold out of his business about four years before his death and retired to live at Lymington, Hampshire. He had planned to return to Nairobi but died a few days before his departure date. 

Alfred Francis John - Kenya Regiment 1702

Nairobi City Park cemetery - Maria Lucia Gedye, died 19 Mar 1956 aged 44 ?

Gazette 23 Apr 1963 probate

1939 England and Wales Register living in Kensington, single, as 'Merchant Agent Export'

After World War 1 Arthur Loveridge relinquished charge of the Nairobi Museum and Gedye took over. By 1923 the Natural History Society had raised sufficient funds to embark on a more ambitious program. The government granted it a plot of land at the corner of Government Road and Kirk Road, and later that year the Society opened its new museum building. The old one was taken over by a businessman and turned into a dairy. Gedye remained curator and had the voluntary assistance of Canon Kenneth Rogers, Dr Van Someren, Alllen Turner, and others.