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Name: TOWNSEND, Percy Dalrymple
Nee: son of Charles Eyre Coote Townsend, bro of Herbert Eyre Dalrymple Townsend
Birth Date: 2 Apr 1891 Mount Coote, Limerick
Death Date: 8 Sep 1978 George, South Africa
First Date: 1922
Profession: Auctioneer, farmer with brother at Njoro
Area: 1922 Thurlestone Est. Kitale, 1925 Hoey's Bridge, 1930 Nanyuki
Married: At Nanyuki Sports Club 12 Mar 1931 Doris Ingleby Partridge b. 12 Aug 1894, d. 31 Jan 1986 Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA (dau of Harry Samuel Partridge)
Children: Veronica Jyll (Pease) (1935)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Wed
War Service: Royal Field Artillery
School: Sherborne
General Information:
Wed - 12/3/31 - Married by special licence at Nanyuki Sports Club, Percy Dalrymple Townsend described as Auctioneer of Nanyuki
Red 31 has P.D. Townsend
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Aberdare Voters List
Left for South Africa in 1950s
Gazette 22 May 1981 probate
Web Educated at Sherborne School in Dorset, Percy served in First World War in the Royal Artillery (1). After the war he emigrated to Kenya and, with his brother, Herbert Eyre Dalrymple Townsend farmed at Kitale. Records in the CRB Africa Group in Nairobi show that the brothers farmed in Njoro with Percy specifically at the "Thurlestone Estate". The records also show a "GM Townsend" farming at Nakuru and at Kitale - presumably George Marsden Townshend who previously worked for the Indian Forestry Service but lost a leg when he was attacked by a tiger - and a "PPA Townsend" at Hawks West Farm; this would have been Patrick Philip Achilles Townshend who was a coffee planter whose wife died at Kitale in 1939. Herbert returned to the UK sometime between 1931 and 1934 but Percy remained in Kenya until about 1950, at the time of the Mau Mau rising, when went to South Africa where he died.