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Name: PHILPOTT, Richard Knight
Birth Date: 27 Aug 1882 Maceio, Brazil, bapt 10 Sep at Chewton Mendip
Death Date: 21 Mar 1944 Eldoret
First Date: 1921
Profession: Farmer
Area: Kericho, Kapsagoy near Turbo
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Gazette
War Service: Royal Navy
General Information:
Red 22 - R.K. Philpot, Sotik
Gazette 19/10/1921 - Dissolution of Partnership between Daniel Ernest Cooper and Philip Guy carrying on business as Farmers, Planters and General Traders at Sotik under the style or firm of 'Cooper and Guy' by mutual consent. Business now being carried on by Daniel Ernest Cooper, Philip Guy and Richard Knight Philpott as 'Cooper Guy and Philpott' from 1/10/1921
Red 25 has R.K. Philpot, Sotik (Red 31 the same) Hut the same 1922.
Hut - Cdr. R.K. Philpot 1937 Kapsajoi Estate Turbo
Gazette 3 Apr 1945 probate
1891 England Census says he was born in Brazil, as does that of 1911
Nat Probate Calendar - probate went to his sister Mary Courtney Philpott