Rift Valley - Member of the Rift Valley Sports Club - Jan 1929 - Elected - 16 Nov 1926 - Maj. R. Holmes Jackson

Red 31 has H.R.H. Jackson, Subukia

Gazette 6 Dec 1938, Rift Valley Voters List

Captain of Njoro Golf Club in 1937.

Gazette 14 Oct 1929 elected to Nakuru District Council

EAS 19 July 1939  The death of Major R Holmes Jackson OBE, MC occurred at Nakuru in tragic circumstances. He was found near the tree plantation on the slopes of Menengai  early in the morning, with a gunshot wound in the head and a shotgun lying beside him. He was born in 1891 and educated at Downside. He served with distinction in the Great War with the East Surreys and the Duke of Wellington's regiment in France and Salonica, and was also a member of the British military mission to Russia where he received the decoration of the order of St Anne. He was the son of Sir Robert Whyte Melville who was Director of Ordnance in the Near East. He was also ADC to General Macready in the Irish troubles. He came to Kenya in 1923 and married Janette Lean a year later. He farmed in the Subukia District until 1930 when he joined the staff of the Nakuru Press. He was a keen golfer and captained the Njoro team last season. The Nakuru section of the Kenya Defence Force was under his command. 'Holmes' as he was known to his intimates, was a popular and genial personality and had a wide circle of friends.