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Name: DOVE, Edward Beck

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Birth Date: 23 July 1903 Darlington

Death Date: 1984 Knysna, Western Cape, pancreatic cancer

First Date: 1928

Profession: Superintendent, Approved School, Prisons Dept., Kenya in 1939, appointed 1937. Originally Road Foreman PWD 1928. Superintendent of Prisons in 1953

Area: Dagoretti, Kitale

Married: 1. In Northallerton 23 July 1934 Vera Gilbert b. 30 Nov 1906 West Harlepool, d. 2 Sep 1970 Knysna; 2. In Knysna 1973 Doreen Lucy 'Dolly' Starcher b. 1916 Worcester, S Africa, d. 20 July 1986 Knysna

Children: dau. (stillborn 17 Sep 1935); Norma A. (9 May 1937 Nairobi); John Beck (6 June 1939 Nairobi-1961 Lusaka); Michael James Peveril (3 Sep 1941 Nakuru-2011); Sally (24.7.1951); Susan (24.7.1951)

Book Reference: Staff 39, Staff 53, Red 31, Hut, Gazette

General Information:

Red 31 has R.B. Dove, PWD, Kitale, Hut the same
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Voters List has Edward Beck Dove, civil servant, Box 420, Nbi
Female child of E. Dove is buried in Forest Rd cem. Nbi, d. 18 Oct 1935
Was Jomo Kenyatta's bodyguard at his trial in 1953
In 1958 moved to Lesotho as Chief of Prison
1970 Emigrated to Knysna
S. African Probate Records Edward Beck Dove had probate for his wife Doreen Lucy Dove who d. 26 July 1986 

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