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Name: CONDUITT, Walter Arnold 'WAC' (Major)
Nee: son of Henry Walter Conduitt
Birth Date: 14 Sep 1877 Allahabad
Death Date: 10 Mar 1957 Nakuru, Kenya
First Date: 1922
Last Date: 1957
Profession: Soldier settler
Area: 'Equator Farm', Njoro, 1943 Nakuru, 1920 Rumuruti Soldier Settler
Married: 1. In Seoni, Bengal 3 Feb 1903 Jane Davidson Crawford b. 1866 Edinburgh, d. 28 Feb 1915 Middlesex; 2. In London 16 Aug 1916 Lady Nellie Viola Castalia Florence Chetwynd-Talbot b. 3 July 1885 Bromley, Kent, d. 18 July 1951 Nairobi (dau. of Earl of Shrewsbury and prev. m. to Reginald Edward Gore 1880-1963)
Book Reference: Nellie, Golf, Markham, Verandah, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, EA & Rhodesia, Debrett, Red 22, Stud, Racing, Bur, SS, Rift Valley, Barnes
War Service: London Regt.
General Information:
East Africa & Rhodesia - 4/4/57 - Major Walter Arnold Conduitt, who has died in Kenya, served in the South African War and in the 1914-18 war in the 5th Battalion the London Regiment and the Remount Service. In 1916 he married Lady Viola Florence, daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury; she died in 1951. Major Conduitt is survived by his second wife. [?]
Red 22 - Justice of the Peace - Nakuru
EA Stud Book 1954 - Thoroughbred Stallions - The Lady Viola Conduitt, Baruku, Nakuru
EA Stud Book 1954 - Cattle - Guernseys - Major W.A. Conduitt, Nakuru
Racing - Owner of 'Calm Waters' - 1930 - Lady Viola Conduitt
Racing - Owner of 'George' - 1930 - Lady Viola Conduitt
Racing - Owner of 'Greeko' - 1930
Racing - Owner of 'Masai' - 1929 - Lady Viola Conduitt
Nairobi City Park Burial Register - Viola Lady Conduitt, age 66, died 18/7/51
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Capt. W.A. Conduitt, Alton Towers, Stoke-on-Trent - Farm 554
Rift Valley - Member of the Rift Valley Sports Club - Jan 1929 - Elected - 15 May 1928 - Maj. W.A. Conduit
Gazette 5/4/2938 - Honorary Game Warden
Nakuru North cemetery - Walter Arnold Conduitt, died 10/3/1957
Nellie - (1938) - Mention of the Conduitts arriving to visit and staying for drinks 'they always do'. Well known golfer at Njoro in 20's. Racehorse trainer.
KAD 1922 - Committee Member, Njoro European Association
Agnes Shaw: They kept a large stable where polo ponies were trained for this purpose they employed an Indian ex- cavalry man from the viceroy’s bodyguard named Shere Khan. There were over 70 horses in a stable and Conduitt rode around the farm on a large grey gelding named Castor; his wife rode a mare called My Dear. Both horses were well known on the polo field. He supervised the building of a large cedar house never thinking that one day after it was sold it would become a preparatory boarding school. The farm was under a large acreage of flax, 600 acres of wattle, and many hundred acres of maize, and also had a small planted acreage of coffee. To decorticate the flax they had a scotching mill and many were the prizes won by their flax exhibits at the Nakuru agricultural shows.
Daphne Moore diary, Bodleian Library, Mss Afr.s.466 He is large and soporific and she is weatherbeaten and very energetic and is a very good rider.
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