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Name: COLLINS, Leonard
Birth Date: 17 May 1899 London
Death Date: 28 Nov 1967 Chester
First Date: 1924
Last Date: 1962
Profession: Company Director - Old East African Trading Co. Ltd. and Coffee Services Ltd (coffee broker)
Area: Mombasa
Married: 1. In Edmonton 1921 Winifred Sophia Wilson b. 18.1.1898, div.1943, d. 1990 (later m. Edward George Tidy 1897-1967) ; 2. In 1944 Nancie Ovens (FANY) b. 6 Oct 1910, d. 1991 in Kingston Hospital, Surrey
Children: Reginald Leonard (7 Apr 1922 London-21 July 2016 Redhill, Surrey); Ann Lillian (11 Jan 1932 Nairobi)
Book Reference: EAWL, Who's Who, Red 31
War Service: 1915-18 Royal Fusiliers, France; 1941-42 Kenya Defence Force
School: Tottenham Boys' School
General Information:
Shipped coffee to the UK from Mombasa. Returned to UK in 1962.
Sourcse: R.L. Collins and Mrs Jane Lesley Cameron
Who's Who 1954 - Past Pres. Mombasa Cham. of Comm. and Agric., Coffee Trade Assn. of E. Africa, Royal Soc. of St. George, Mombasa Br., Rotary Club of Mombasa, EASPCA., Mombasa Br., Coast European Assn., Mombasa and Coast; Past Dep. Chair. Mombasa Munic. Bd.; Past Chair. Health, Finance and Gen. Purposes Comms. of Mombasa Munic. Bd.; Chair. Mombasa Citizens C.O.L. Comm., Coffee Services Ltd., Mombasa Coffee Storage Ltd., Mombasa, L. Collins Ltd., Moshi, Tanganyika; Partner Messrs Colvale & Co. Moshi; Mombasa Agent of Uganda Non-Native Coffee Marketing Bd.; Hon. Hard Coffee Controller during WW2; F.M., Officer of District Grand Lodge of E. Africa, Officer Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Scotland, Past Master Mombasa Lodge, Past 1st Principal Mombasa Royal Arch Chapter; Hobbies: Tennis, golf, service of any kind for benefit of mankind.
Gazette 28 July 1968 probate
Committed Freemason
Letter from Reginald Leonard Collins 30 June 2007: Lived and worked in Aden after WWI, then went to Kenya 1924. Soon after WW2 he left the OEATC and set up his own company of coffee brokers and auctioneere, Coffee Services Ltd., with the head office in Mombasa and branches in Nairobi, Moshi and Bukoba.