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Name: DEWAR, Peter

Nee: elder son of James Dewar of London

Birth Date: 12 Dec 1882 Putney

Death Date: 27 Aug 1937 Eldoret

First Date: 1923

Last Date: 1937

Profession: Farmer

Area: Eldoret, 1931 Sailay Est., Soy

Married: 1. In London 24 July 1923 Katherine Eleanor Palmer b. 1897 (div. 192?); 2. In Richmond 27 Aug 1930 Vera Mary Purgold b. 30 Aug 1902 Whitchurch, Shropshire, d. 1988 Kenya ( later m. William Alexander Jackson Stewart b. 1915)

Children: 1. son 2. James Richard (1931-17 May 1932 Eldoret, aged 10 1/2 months); David (22 Jan 1935 Nairobi); Chrystal Mary 'Bisto' (Fernandes) (31 Dec 1937 London)

Book Reference: Red 31, Hut, Burke, Rift Valley, Barnes

War Service: served in WW1 (wounded) in France & Salonica as Lt. RMLI

School: Haileybury

General Information:

Burke - Freeman of the City of London, Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors, memb Baltic Exchange 1903, sr. ptnr. of Dewar & Webb, London grain merchants (which he sold 1923), emigrated to Kenya 1923 to farm, member. London Rowing Club, a noted oarsman who represented Great Britain (stroke) in Olympic Games 1908

Rift Valley - Member of the Rift Valley Sports Club - Jan 1929 - Elected - 25 May 1920 - Peter Dewar

Red 31 has P. Dewar, Soy

Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Uasin Gishu Voters Roll expunged

Eldoret cemetery Died 27 Aug 1937

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