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Name: MUIR, John Gardiner
Birth Date: 29 Apr 1853 Glasgow
Death Date: 2 Aug 1913 London
First Date: 1896
Profession: Eastern Telegraph Co.
Married: In Glasgow 24 Sep 1880 Jessie Agnes Hendrie b. 17 Nov 1859 Old Monkland, Lanarkshire, d. 1939 North Cotswold, Glouc.
Children: Muriel Evelyn (Sowerby) (8 Nov 1881 Dreghorn, Ayrshire-28 Mar 1933 Uppington, Shropshire); Winifred Hilda (Hobson) (1887 Eardisley, Herefordshire); Agnes Heather Gardiner (Buchanan) (12 Aug 1888 Eardisley, Hereford); Clara Gardiner (Muir [sic]) (1891 Market Harborough)
Book Reference: Ainsworth, North
General Information:
North has John Gardiner-Muir - Eastern Telegraph Co. Zanzibar 1892; dep. Zanzibar for Mombasa 21/12/1892; at Kibwezi on shooting trip 1893; dep. Zanzibar June 1897, transferred to Seychelles Check - John Gardiner Muir
Big Game hunter. Had claws stolen from 2 lion skins - reported to Ainsworth at Machakos - story Ainsworth (p.35)
Frederick Jackson, Early Days in East Africa, 1930 He and his Scots ghillie between them killed over 80 rhinos around Machakos in 1893 in less than three months. The directors of the IBEA company were so incensed that they let it be known that no big game hunter would be allowed in the country except under licence and that the payment of a fee of £500.