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Name: BURNHAM, Harold Rayleigh

Birth Date: 27 Jan 1902 Lee, Kent

Death Date: 28 Dec 1965 Nairobi

First Date: 1933

Profession: Assessor, Inland Revenue in 1939, appointed 1937. Originally Clerk, Income Tax Office 1933. Colonial - Dep. Commissioner inc. Tax. S.L. 1944; Asst. Commissioner inc. Tax Kenya 1949

Area: Nairobi, 1925 Lumbwa, 1930 Unga Ltd. Njoro

Married: 1926/7 Helen Erica Robinson b. 20 Oct 1907 Cape Province, S. Africa, d. 18 July 1994 (dau of Lionel Percy Robinson)

Children: son D. (1928 Kenya); dau J. (2 Nov 1932 Bombay)

Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Staff 39, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Colonial, O&C, Rift Valley, Red 1912

War Service: Military service 1939-43, Captain

School: Berkhamsted School and St. Catharine's College Cambridge 1921-23

General Information:

Rift Valley - Member of the Rift Valley Sports Club - Jan 1929 - Elected - 19 Feb 1924 - H.R. Burnham
Gazette 16 Nov 1936 Voters List 1936 - Harold Rayleigh Burnham, c/o Treasury, Nbi and Helen Erica Burnham, Housewife, Box 200, Nbi
Red Book 1912 - H. Burnham - Nairobi
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 483).
Gazette 22 Mar 1966 probate
Langata cemetery, Nairobi: Harold Rayleigh / Burnham / 1902 - 1965

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