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Name: BALLANTYNE, Robert Leiper
Photo Source: E. Af Annual 1932-3
Birth Date: 31 Oct 1897 Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire
Death Date: 29 Jan 1961 Mombasa
First Date: 1930
Last Date: 1961
Profession: Merchant, Box 675, Nbi
Area: 1930 Municipality, Nairobi
Married: In Nairobi 22 Oct 1927 May Braidwood (dau of William Braidwood)
Children: Margaret (Glover)
Book Reference: Golf, Red 31, Victor Kane, Red 22, Barnes, Gazette
General Information:
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 - Voters List
Captain of Muthaiga GC in 1937. Played in the EA Amateur Golf Championship in 1931.
Gazette 14 Feb 1961 probate
Nat Probate Calendar on Ancestry says he died 22 Mar 1961, but this must be wrong
Letter from Victor Kane 22 June 1997 Very hard working and a very straight operator. Coffee was his original main activity, but later he developed Elliott's bakery into Nairobi's leading and perhaps only successful bakery. My father W.J. Kane was chairman for some years prior to independence. Mrs Ballantyne,, a real lady, was an invalid in a wheelchair.