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Name: GRIEVE, Adam Alexander
Nee: from Transvaal
Birth Date: 1873
First Date: 1901
Profession: Farmed at Athi River
Area: Mbagathi River, Dagoretti
Book Reference: Gillett, SE, HBEA, EAHB 1905, Hut, EAMR, North, Drumkey, Land, EAHB 1907, Leader14, Red Book 1912, EAHB 1904
War Service: WW1 with EAMR - B Sqdn. 8/8/14 - 27/4/15
General Information:
SE - A.A. Grieve - Sept 1910
Land - 1909 - A.A. Grieve - Agricultural, 640 acres, Ngongo, 27-6-03, Registered 4-3-09
EAHB 1907 - A. Grieve - Mbagathi
Leader14 - A.A. Grieve - Ngong ?
Red Book 1912 - A.A. Grieve - Nairobi
EAHB 1905 - A. Grieve - Mbagathi River, Dagoretti.
North - Land Grant application 12/7/1902 Nairobi
North - From Transvaal; at the 'Africa Hotel' Mombasa 19-10-1901; Land Grant application, Nairobi 12-7-1902; Committee Member of the Planters' & Settlers' Association, Nairobi 12-8-1903; On List of 'Non-Native Residents of Nairobi … Bagathi, Kikuyu' (EAM) 5-9-1903; 1905 EA Handbook at Mbagathi River, Dagoretti; Committee Member of Colonists' Association, Nairobi Dec 1905
EAHB 1904 - Masai-Land District Residents - Grieves, A.A. - Bagathi
Kenya Political Record books, Bodleian Library, Micr. Afr. 516, Reel 5. Alex Grieve of Dagoretti Is an unsympathetic and tactless master. The Kikuyu will only work for him under compulsion.His complaints about labour should be ignored because he is a notoriously bad employer and not fit to employ labour at all.
11 July 1910 He wounded a native by throwing a stone at him. Ordered to compensate him but refused, so the native could apply for a summons against him but did not do so.