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Name: LE RICHE, Philip Henry 'Tim'

Birth Date: 22 Nov 1905 Worthing

Death Date: 1970 Aberdeen

First Date: 1931

Profession: Instructor, African, Educ. Dept in 1939, appointed 1931. Originally Temp. Educ. Officer 1931

Area: Kabete

Married: In Salisbury, S. Rhodesia 3 Oct 1928 Phyllis Elsie Greathead b. 1906 Germiston, Transvaal, d. 28.11.1937 Nairobi, after childbirth (sister of Kenneth Horatio Greathead); 2. In Nakuru 13 Aug 1940 Margaret Nessie Mackie b. 18 Aug 1919 Slamanan, Stirling, d. 17 Mar 2019 Lake Joondalup, Wanneroo, W. Australia (dau of Archibald Mackie)

Children: Phillip David (3 June 1932 Nakuru); Phyllis Diana Anne (Mahaffy) (3 Nov 1937 Nairobi); another son, another dau

Book Reference: Staff 39, Ken Greathead, Gazette

General Information:

Ken Greathead - Tim Le Riche at some stage in the 1930s was Inspector of African Schools, stationed at Kabete

Gazette 16 Nov 1936 Voters List 1936 - Philip Henry Le Riche, Assistant Master, Jeanes School, Kabete and Phyllis Elise Le Riche, Jeanes School, Kabete

Tim le Riche and his brother Frank had a tobacco farm in Rhodesia, which they sold in 1930. Frank returned to England. Tim and his wife Phyllis went to Kenya to join her brother Ken. Tim taught at Nakuru Primary School for some years, then took long leave and went to England for further study. When he returned to Kenya he became Inspector of African Schools.

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