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Name: OLDFIELD, Hollester Gratton
Birth Date: 18 Aug 1889 Birmingham
Death Date: 12 June 1951 Port Shepstone, S. Africa
First Date: 1914
Profession: Asst. DC; retired magistrate on death cert.
Area: Ruiru, 1930 Kabarnet, 1925 Kiambu, 1922 Kisumu, 1922 ADC Embu, 1922 Nakuru
Married: In Observatory, Cape Town 2 Oct 1915 Estella Hilda Daniel b. 23 July 1889 Colesberg, Cape Province, S. Africa, d. 1968 Birmingham
Children: Howard Basil Gratton (19 Dec 1920 Dagoretti-1950 Solihull, Birmingham)
Book Reference: Tignor, KAD, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Dominion, Gazette
War Service: KAR
General Information:
Dominion - District Officer - 1930
Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Kenya Area - Hollester Gratton Oldfield - Civil Servant, Nyeri
Tignor - 1924 - DO at Ruiru.
KAD 1922 - Administration, Nairobi.
KAD 1922 - Asst. District and Resident Commissioner
George Nightingale Memoirs 1914-1960s Bodleian Library Mss Afr.s.1951 He traveled the Lake Baringo District with four cats and many cases of beer.
Ira H. Morse & Julie B. Morse, Yankee in Africa, 1936 In Nakuru we met Mr. Oldfield, a district commissioner, stationed at Lake Baringo where we were intending to hunt elephant. He had just walked in from there in three days, a distance of 103 miles, and was nearly sick from the long tramp. Safariland had notified him several days before to get us some more men and he told us that before he left he had engaged fifty N'Jemps and they were to walk to Maji Mazouri and meet us there.