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Name: HUMPHRIES, Frederick William

Birth Date: 1873 Corston, Somerset

Death Date: 13 May 1934 Mombasa

First Date: 1913

Profession: Official with EAP Education Dept. Headmaster

Area: 1922 Eldoret

Married: In Bedminster 1897 Georgiana McEachine b. 1870 Portreath, Cornwall, d. 3.7.1936 Nairobi

Children: Margaret Georgiana (Stanton) (1897)

Book Reference: Gillett, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Red 22, KGF, Pioneers, Gazette, Harmony, Nicholls, Dominion, Barnes, Childhood, Red 19

General Information:

Pioneers - Growing up in Eldoret - Mrs Dorothy Hughes - …….I went to a little school run by Mr and Mrs Humphries when I was 4 years old. …..
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Nairobi District - F.W. Humphries, Government School
Member of Lodge Harmony - Initiated 3/8/14, age 41, School Master Education Dept., Nairobi
Nicholls - The government could not delay indefinitely the education of white children on the plateau and in February 1915 the Central School was finally opened at Eldoret. By June of the following year it had 50 students. A new block was erected next to an old corrugated-iron building at the end of the road beyond the Roman Catholic church, and Mr and Mrs Humphries were appointed as the headmaster and his asistant. F.W. Humphries, of medium height, sturdy and well set, with a fine-shaped head and dark hair greying at the temples, had a dark moustache and twinkling brown eyes. He was a wonderful teacher and keen gardener. Mrs G. Humphries, with grey eyes and brown hair plaited and wound round at the nape of her neck, was able to keep perfect discipline. Their daughter Marjorie (Margaret Georgiana), a piano-player with a pleasant singing voice, had recently left school and helped with the teaching.
Dominion - Education Department - School Principal - 1930
Barnes - Mombasa Cemetery - F.W. Humphries, died 13 May 1934, European Hospital
Childhood - Joan Reid (née Lumley) - Eldoret - One day a prisoner got loose from the jail and shot the schoolmaster, Mr Humphries, in the stomach.
Gazette 15/11/1913 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Headmaster, G.S. Eldoret - 27/10/1913
Gazette 15/11/1913 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Headmistress, G.S. Eldoret - 27/10/1913 - Mrs G. Humphries
Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Plateau South - Frederick W Humphries, Headmaster, Central School, Eldoret
Red Book 1919 - Education Dept. - Uasin Gishu - Head Master
KAD 1922 - Head Master, Eldoret
Freemason at Nairobi 1913

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