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Name: HAMILTON, James Frederick Hume CBE (Major)
Nee: son of George Alexander Hume Hamilton, bro of Margaret Robinson
Birth Date: 5.1.1916 Nairobi
Death Date: 28.5.2002 Newbury, England
First Date: 1916
Profession: Barrister; advocate - High Court of Kenya
Area: Nairobi, Karen
Married: In Bromley, Kent, 1945 Marjorie Sarah Uden b. 1911 Bermondsey, d. 1997 Nairobi
Children: Hamish George Hume (1949-1976); Patrick Hume (1947)
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, KAR, mini-SITREP XI, O&C, Who's Who 63, Foster, mini-Sitrep XXI
War Service: Kenya Regt. enrolled 1938, 2/Lt. 1939. 1/NRR Jan 40, 2/NRR Feb 40, 3/NRR 1940-42 etc.
School: Aravon School, Bray, Co. Wicklow. Haileybury College, Trinity Hall Cambridge 1934-37. Called to the Bar - Gray's Inn 1938
General Information:
Deputy Chairman Council of State 1958-63; Chancellor Church of Province of EA and of Province of Kenya for 16 years; ACP (R) Kenya Police Reserve (Service in Reserve from April 1953 to date [1995]); Commissioner, Kenya Law Reform Commission 1983 - .
Who's Who 63 - President British Legion, Kenya 1962 and 1963; President Kenya Rifle Association; Chairman Kenya Education Trust Ltd.
Foster - Senior partner Hamilton Harrison & Matthews, his father was a founder Partner. Diocesan Registrar 1964, succeeding Sir Peter Hewitt. He was also appointed the Chancellor of the Church of the Province of East Africa.
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 419)
He was an Elder of the Burning Spear (Kenyan honour)
Genforum Feb 1953 Mrs Marjorie Hamilton of Karen was having lunch with her two children when about a dozen Africans armed with pangas entered the house, striking Mrs Hamilton with the flat blade of a panga and clubbing the houseboy. The children were unharmed. Police pursued the gang, capturing two and recovering a stolen revolver.
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