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Name: GLEDHILL, Henry

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Nee: bro of Eric Irvine Gledhill

Birth Date: 29 June 1903 Pontefract, Yorkshire

Death Date: 8 Dec 1963 Busselton, W. Australia

First Date: 1928

Last Date: 1964, to Australia

Profession: Asst. Master European Primary Educ. in 1939, appointed 1928; headmaster. Farmer on North Kinangop in 1950s

Area: Nairobi, Nakuru, Eldoret, Kitale, Njoro, Mombasa

Married: In Nairobi 19 Dec 1930 Gwyneth Mary McGaffin b. 6 Oct 1906 Mossel Bay, S. Africa, d. 22 Feb 1995 Perth, W. Australia (also a teacher)

Children: Sally (Dymott) (19 Feb 1932 Nairobi); Janet (1 Mar 1934 Pontefract); Nancy; Helen; John

Book Reference: Staff 39, EAWL, Red 31, Hut, Colonial, Dominion

School: King's School Pontefract and Leeds University; BSc. (Leeds)

General Information:

He was latterly Headmaster at Nakuru and before that head at Eldoret, Kitale and Njoro and also at the Allidina Visram High School (Asian), Mombasa. Farmed on N. Kinangop through the 50s and Mau Mau - left Kenya in 1964 [must have been earlier] for Western Australia to join and be joined by Janet, Nancy, Helen and John. ......... Left England in the depression for a Rhodesian School - whilst on holiday in Kenya decided to stay and taught in Nairobi where he met my mother, also a teacher - born and brought up in S. Africa - sister-in-law of Wilfred Hops, a Nairobi dentist. Source - Sally Dymott
Dominion - Education Department - Assistant Master - 1930
 
 

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