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Name: LEA, Leslie
Nee: brother of W. Lea
Birth Date: 7.4.1889 St Giles, London
Death Date: 29.11.1969 Maidstone, Kent
First Date: 1908
Last Date: 1923
Profession: Joined Lands Dept. remaining with them for many years.
Area: Nairobi
Married: 4 June 1913 Edith Mary Low b. 12 Mar 1994 London, d. 1965 Hastings, Sussex
Children: Leslie Mervyn (1914 Nairobi); Deryk Austin (1918); Olwen Mary (1921)
Book Reference: Gillett, KAD, Colonial, Red 22, KGF, Advertiser, Gazette, Harmony, Red Book 1912, Red 19
School: Privately and Univ. Coll. Schl., Gray's Inn 1922
General Information:
Colonial - Clk. Acct. Fencing Dept. EAP Sept. 1908; Conf. Clk. to Commissioner for Lands 1909; Conveyancing Clk. Lands Dept. 1910; Ag. Conveyancer 1913; Asst. Registrar Crown Lands 1916; Musketry Instructor KAR 1916; Registrar of Titles 1919; Ag. Prin. Regr. Crown Lands 1920; Dep. Registr.-Gen. Titles and Ch. controlling rev. authority 1920-21; Law officer, Legal Adviser etc. St. Helena 1923; etc.
KGF - E-mail from Derek S. Low - James Adams Low - his daughter Edith Mary married on June 4th 1913, Leslie Lea. He was listed as a bachelor and civil servant of Nairobi. Leslie was born in England in 1889, and died in Kent in 1969. Edith Mary was born in London in 1894 and died in Sussex in 1965. Their son Leslie Mervyn was born in Nairobi in 1914.
Leslie appears to have gone to Nairobi from London sometime before 1913, where he first was a representative for Brown & Pank, wine merchants. However he gave that up and subsequently became a Registrar of Land in the Colonial Office at Nairobi. He returned to England in about 1923, before moving to St. Helena a year or two later.
Advertiser - 10/7/1908 - Advert - H. & L. Lea, Government Road - General Agents
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Nairobi District - Leslie Lea, Land Office
Member of Lodge Harmony - Initiated 2/4/17, age 28, Asst. Registrar of Crown Lands, Nairobi
Red Book 1912 - L. Lea - Nairobi
Red Book 1912 - Land Dept. - Clerk
Gazette - 12/11/1919 - Register of Voters - Nairobi, North Area - Leslie Lea - Civil Servant, Parklands and Mrs Edith Mary Lea - Parklands
Red Book 1919 - Asst. Registrar of Documents and Asst. Registrar of Crown Lands, Nairobi
KAD 1922 - Registrar of Titles
1939 England and Wales Register living with wife in Bexhill as 'Barrister al Law, Civil Servant'