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Name: GOODBODY, Francis William
Birth Date: 14 May 1912 Vancouver, Canada
Death Date: 16 May 1993 Limpley Stoke, Wilts.
First Date: 1935
Profession: Appointed as a DO in 1935. At Embu in 1939. Mombasa in 1953
Area: Embu, Mombasa
Married: 1. Margaret Ormiston d. 13 Mar 1929 Dundee; 2.In Kisumu 17 June 1950 Janet 'Jessie' Morrison b. 15 July 1911 Lossiemouth, Scotland, d. 24 Oct 1993 Bath
Children: Diana Elizabeth (7.8.1952)
Book Reference: Staff 39, Staff 53, Hut, Colonial, O&C
War Service: Military service 1940-47, Lieut.-Col.
School: Dover College and Wadham College Oxford 1931-35, BA (Oxon)
General Information:
Francis William - Kenya Regiment 1294
Hut has F.M. Goodbody, DC Kisumu 1950-51.
Colonial - Senior DC 1955; PC 1956; Civ. Sec. to Police 1956; Under Sec. Chief Sec's Office 1957-63
At Embu in 1938
Terence Gavaghan, Of Lions and Dungbeetles, 1999 DC in Isha Baidoa in 1945. He was cherubic and bespectacled, honest and bonhomous, but said to cut an outrageous caper in his kikoi on the dinner table.