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Name: WALLIS, Fabian Harry
Birth Date: 1904 London, bapt. 17 May
Death Date: 4 Aug 1978 Nairobi
First Date: 1930
Profession: Farmer
Area: Moiben Farm, Moiben, partner with Beech Shirkwa Moiben
Book Reference: Mischief, Red 31, Hut, Racing, Malcolmson, Mills
War Service: RAF General Duties Branch in WW2
School: Eton 1918-22 and at RMC Sandhurst
General Information:
A friend of Henry Barron Sharpe.
Racing - Owner of 'Sam' - 1929
Malcolmson - 1932 - The road to Eldoret had been closed for 10 days and the railway line was also down in one place for it was near the end of July by now and the country was soaked by the endless tropical storms. However with the help of two other cars we made it and reached the Graham Beech and Fabian Wallace [sic] farm in the Cherangani Hills …… pig-sticking ….
Mills - Muthaiga Country Club 1958 - After Secretary Mac Bradshaw drowned in Nairobi Dam, Fabian Wallis, a Club Member immediately took over as acting Resident Secretary until a new appointment was made in May: it was hoped that he would become Secretary of the Club when Mr Sutcliffe retired on 30th September 1959.
Mischief - a homosexual and a close friend of Lord Erroll's in Happy Valley days - In the end he was broke and sad, living in a guest house in Nairobi.
Travel - Nov 2012 - mention of a gay couple who lived near Derek and Pat Fisher - Fabian Wallace and Graham Beech.
Derek Franklin, A Pied Cloak: Memoirs of a Colonial Police Officer, 1996 Wallis invited Franklin and other young police inspectors to his house for the weekend. A book was left casually on the bedside table explaining the raison d'etre of homosexuality.
Paul Spicer, The Temptress, 2010 Openly homosexual and strikingly handsome, he lived on a small, well-appointed farm at the entrance to the Wanjohi Junction near Gilgil, where he grew pyrethrum. He was a remittance man and something of an epicure - loved fine food and had his own cigarettes especially made for him in London.