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Name: STOYLE, Herbert Blin

Birth Date: 18 Nov 1890 Crediton

Death Date: 27 July 1955 Nairobi

First Date: 1932

Last Date: 1955

Profession: Chief Mechanical Engineer, Loco, Carriage & Wagon Dept. Railways in 1939, appointed 1938. Originally Loco. Supdt. 1932. Transferred from Tanganyika Rlys. Service in British Honduras 1914-21; in Tanganyika 1921-32

Area: 1922 Dar es Salaam, Likoni

Married: Miriam Dorothy Winter b. 23 Aug 1898 Greenwich, d. 1978

Children: Dorothy Mary 'Molly' (Hoare) (1920); Helen Elizabeth 'Betty' (Pryde and Jensen) (11 Mar 1922 Dar es Salaam-22 May 2001 Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona); Margaret Patricia (Van Buren Clark and Winterson) (8 Sep 1925 Tabora-15 Sep 1997 London)

Book Reference: EAWL, Staff 39, Colonial, EA & Rhodesia, Red 22

School: Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Crediton, Battersea Polytechnic & L and SWR; A.M.I.MECH.E.

General Information:

Source: Mrs Molly Hoare 'He was a flamboyant figure, who gave lavish parties. He was so well known that when taking a taxi home, we had only to say "The house next to Bwana Stoyle". He and his wife Dorothy, also gave children's parties - fireworks, Christmas etc. which we loved.' Source:- Mrs P. Tomalin

Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Voters List has Miriam Dorothy as his wife

Gazette 6 Sep 1955 probate

1939 England and Wales Register living in Esher with wife, as chief mechanical engineer Kenya and Uganda, on leave

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