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Name: GLEDHILL, Eric Irvine 'Ginger'

Photo Source: William Cherry and Phil Toye

Nee: bro of Henry Gledhill

Birth Date: 5 June 1908 Featherstone, Yorkshire

Death Date: 1996 Tunbridge Wells

First Date: 1932

Profession: Education Officer European Educ. in 1939, appointed 1932. Originally an Asst. Master 1932. Asst. Director of Education in 1953. Taught at Prince of Wales school. Latterly Inspector of European Education

Area: Kabete, Nairobi

Married: In Nairobi 14 Aug 1934 Eileen Winifred Burton b. 1907

Children: Jeremy Robin (4 July 1938 Nairobi), Andrew Peter (1942)

Book Reference: Staff 39, Staff 53, Sally Dymott, Colonial, Year Book, Barnes, Rugby, Foster

War Service: WW2 with KAR in EA, Major

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

General Information:

Retired to Tunbridge Wells. Source - Sally Dymott

Colonial - Prin. Indian Teacher Training Centre 1947; Asst. Dir. Educ. 1953

Year Book - 1953 - p. 279

Cricket - Picture of E.I. Gledhill, coaching enthusiast

Played for Nondescripts RFC in the 1930s

Rugby - Played for Kenya against Stellenbosch University January-February 1935 - E. Gledhill

Rugby - Nondescripts RFC - President - 1950

Rugby - Nondescripts RFC - Vice-Captain - 1936

Rugby - Nondescripts RFC - Hon. Secretary - 1949

Rugby - Nondescripts RFC - Honours Cap - 1935

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