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Name: BOWLES, Roger Vincent (Dr.)

Nee: son of Horace Edgar Bowles

Birth Date: 4 July 1903 Dublin

Death Date: Nakuru

First Date: 1934

Profession: Colonial Medical Service

Area: Solai, Kilifi, Subukia, Rumuruti, Nakuru

Married: 1. In Hampstead 1927 Florence Maud Evelyn Greaves b. 11 Apr1903 Willesden, d. Feb 1990 Bournemouth (later m. Percy Ewart Bowles 1883-1960); 2. 1938 Patricia Cora Bowles b. 1918 Watford (dau. of Percy Ewart Bowles); 3. Eileen Patricia Hartigan (prev. m. Roderick John Ward 1902-1952 and Derek Chandos Sidney Fisher 1901-1972)

Children: 1. Rev. John Robin (7 Jan 1930 Kampala-3 Nov 2012 Perth, W. Australia); Margaret (4 July 1932); Anne Marie (10 Feb 1936 Nairobi) 2. Benjamin Roger (28 Jan 1940)

Book Reference: Hut, Pioneers, Who's Who 63, Peerage

War Service: RAMC 1940-46, Lieut.-Col.

School: Highgate School 1915-20; University College Hospital London 1921-27; MRCS (Eng), LRCP, Lond., MB, BS Lond., MD Lond. 1933

General Information:

Pioneers - Subukia - Dr. Roger Bowles - article about Gendin Farm being plagued by marauding baboons.
Who's Who 63 - Colonial Medical Service 1928-33; Farmer Subukia and Rumuruti; founder member KNFU, Vice-President 1951, Council RASK since 1949, Vice-Chairman Progressive Local Government Party 1958
Gazette 16 Nov 1936 Voters List 1936 - Roger Vincent Bowles, Med Practitioner, Muthaiga, Box 483 and Florence Maud Evelyn Bowles, Housewife, Muthaiga
The Peerage says he died in 1940, but this is wrong - he visited New York on 16 Aug 1962 (US admissions in Ancestry)
 

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