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Name: LESLIE, Edward John Archibald 'Jock'
Birth Date: 14 Mar 1912 Lesmurdie, Banffshire
Death Date: 9 Nov 1955 Kakamega, suicide
First Date: 1933
Profession: Appointed as a DO in 1934. At Kitale in 1939. Nairobi in 1953 - Acting Administrative Secretary, Secretariat from 9/12/52. DC 1953
Area: Kitale, Nairobi
Married: In Nairobi 25 Mar 1940 Sylvia Yvonne Jeanne Sharp b. 29 Dec 1914 Nairobi, d. 2008 Auchterarder, Perthshire (dau. of John Knox Sharp and she was prev. m. to Robin Sydney Wylde Malcolm)
Children: Marilyn Jean (11 Jan 1941); Margaret (1943)
Book Reference: Staff 39, Staff 53, Colonial, Burke
School: Uppingham and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; BA (Cantab)
General Information:
Gazette 29 Nov 1955 - death announcement
Gazette 4 Dec 1956 probate
Memoirs of Robin Wainwright Bodleian Library Mss Brit.Emp.s.524 When Leslie was DC at North Nyanza he could not find time to write the annual report. The PC gave him an ultimatum, so he committed suicide.