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Name: BROWN, Quinten Hepburn 'Q.H.'
Nee: see also Leslie Hepburn Brown - brothers?
Birth Date: 10 Feb 1891 Exeter, bapt. 22 Mar
Death Date: 18 Jan 1955 Nakuru (grave at Kitale, buried 19 Jan)
First Date: 1911 after qualifying as solicitor in Harrismith, SA where father a rector
Last Date: 1955
Profession: Offered post in Agric. Dept. but joined the Hurst Brothers who were game hunting in Eldoret area. Later worked with Govt. Surveyor on Eldoret/Kitale road and earned enough to buy 2000 acres on Uasin Gishu side of Nzoia river.
Area: Kitale, 1920 Farm 20 Gozinta Soy
Married: 1. In Mombasa Cathedral 1920 Florence Leslie Middleton b. 20 Feb 1893 Bethlehem, S. Africa, d. 11 May 1936 Eldoret; 2. Florence B. Hitchcock b. 1900, d. 1978 S. Africa (moved to SA in 1961)
Children: Shirley (Heriz-Smith) (1st baby born in Kitale cottage hosp. 9.6.1923); Gordon; Quentin Leslie Hepburn (22 Jan 1928 Kitale-1992, went to Australia); David (1924 Kitale); one dau of 2nd marriage
Book Reference: Gillett, Habari 26, KFA, Golf, Nicholson Memoirs, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, EAMR, Red 22, Childhood, Gazette, Barnes
War Service: Served with EAMR from 1915-1917 when sent back to farm; C Sqdn. 8/8/14 - 9/11/14 - To EATC
General Information:
Farm known as 'Gozinta' as any profit put back in. Nearest neighbours Bischoffs. A keen conservationist. First mud & wattle house lasted from 1913 - 1919 when he built home with bricks from farm. First class farmer and popular employer. Dir. of KFA about 1934-42 and also of Unga Ltd. Chair. Trans Nzoia Agric. sub-committee during and after WW2. Mgr. Kitale branch of Land Bank, member EA Friesian Comm. Pres. Kitale Club 1954.
Habari 26 - 'My father, when he first reached Kenya in 1911, joined the Hurst brothers' hunting safaris. However, both Charles (better known as "Will") and my father, Q.H. Brown, soon settled down to farming in Uasin Gishu District. George was the brother killed by an elephant.' (Source: letter from Shirley Heriz-Smith)
KFA - Director of KFA in 30's.
KFA - Purchaser of Lease on the Trans Nzoia - 1913.
Captain of Kitale Golf Club in 1934
Nicholson Memoirs - ..... Transport riders such as Q.H. Brown, with a team of oxen and a wagon, would bring up mail, clothes, provisions and farm requirements from the railhead at Londiani to Eldoret. The settlers sent orders to England for what they needed.
Childhood - Shirley Heriz-Smith née Brown - "My father, Q.H. Brown, was born in Exeter, Devon, but went to South Africa when his father was appointed vicar of the Anglican Church in Harrismith. He trained as a solicitor in that town but left for Kenya in 1911 and travelled to Eldoret where some South Africans had already settled. He fought with the East African Transport Corps in the Tanganyika Campaign, but was demobbed in 1917 to go back to the farm and grow food - maize and coffee - and to establish a herd of dairy cows. This was on 2000 acres near Hoey's Bridge where there was one Asian duka, one Sikh policemen and a station only when the railway reached Kitale in 1926.
Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Plateau North - Q.H. Brown - Farmer, Soy
Kitale cemetery - died Jan 1955
Gazette - 26/9/1923 - Voters Register - Plateau North - Quinten Hepburn Brown, Farmer, Gozinta, Farm 2068
Gazette 13 Sep 1955 probate required by Florence Beatrice Hepburn Brown and Gordon Hepburn Brown
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