Stoneham Wanderings - ..... the slopes on the Nyeri side [of Mt Kenya] were comparatively gentle and the going easy. Mr Carr, of Nairobi, actually made a motor track almost to the snows and built a hut where sightseers could spend the night in comfort and safety.

Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - Ernest Carr, British, age 70, died 7/12/39; also Louise Maude Carr, British, age 71, died 19/5/44

Foster - died May 1944. Benefactor to CMS, PCEA Chogoria - One of the best known brands of biscuits in Britain for many years has been Carr's biscuits. The Carr firm was a family firm of Quaker origin and the youngest son of the Carr family was Ernest Carr. Since his other brothers were well-established in the management of the firm, Ernest was advised to branch out into some line of business other than the manufacture of biscuits. He chose jam, and in 1912 formed Carr, White & Co. Ltd. Jam & Preserve Manufacturers, who built a factory in Wigton near Carlisle. His business prospered, particularly during WW1. His firm sold the Wigton factory in 1920 and Carr decided to move with his family to a pleasanter climate than that of England. At first he considered emigrating to California, but finally decided on Kenya which he had heard about on his business trips to Madagascar to buy fruit for the jam factory. ……… In December 1920, therefore, Ernest Carr and his wife arrived in Nairobi with their son and 4 daughters. They stayed first in the Muthaiga Club until they found a small stylish stone-built house set in a garden amid a small area of indigenous forest in Lenana Road. It was called 'Woodlands' ………….. became a partner in Carr, Lawson Ltd. which eventually became Hughes, the well-known agents for Ford motor cars in East Africa. He also developed interests in tea and sisal production and in the company supplying electricity to Nairobi and Mombasa

Roome - started the 'Freda Carr' Hospital in Teso, Uganda

EAS 9 Dec 1939 Founder of Carr Lawson & Co and closely associated with other East African industries. He was born in Carlisle on 13th December 1868 and was a member of the famous family, the Carrs of Carlyle, who would be best remembered for their association with the biscuit manufacturing firm of that name. In his early days he lived at Wigton, Cumberland. In 1895  he'd married Louisa Ward Ashby. First came to Kenya in 1920 and in 1923 founded the firm of Carl Lawson and Co in which he has always taken an active interest. In 1933 he took up residence on the shores of Lake Kivu, which he had visited some years previously and which proved an irresistible attraction to him. Was a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a lover of nature and outdoor life and was a keen mountaineer. He was a great bird lover. In addition to his interests in the motoring trade he was closely associated with other pioneer East African industries such as the Buret Tea Company and Sisal Products Limited. He was a great philanthropist, keenly interested in the church and missionary work and he made large donations to many missions in Kenya and Rwanda and to the Spezia Mission in Switzerland. His generosity contributed in no small measure to the building of St Stephen's Church Nairobi and the Church of the Torch at Kikuyu and he contributed to many other good causes. He took a great interest in public affairs and at one time made a doughty opponent to Major Grogan in a three-cornered Legislative Council election. He also took a keen interest in municipal affairs and was often a contributor to the correspondence columns of the press, expressing his views in no uncertain manner, as he did on all occasions. He loved his home at Kisenye on Lake Kivu which he once described as an earthly paradise.