Wife's maiden name also Meiklejohn, so perhaps they were cousins

1939-45 Prisoner of War in Italy and Germany

Red 22 - J.H.H. Meiklejohn, Sergoit

Gazette 12/4/1922 - Brands Registered during quarter ending 31/3/1922 - J.H.H. Meiklejohn, Farm No 1549, PO Sugaroi, Laikipia - VM7

Barnes - Nakuru North Cemetery - Ian Hamilton Hope Meiklejohn, born 1896, died 1952, Commander RN

Red 25 - Honorary Permit Issuer.

Red 31 has J.H. Meiklejohn, Morogoro, Thomson's Falls.

Hut has Cdr. J.H.H. Meiklejohn 1922 Rumuruti married to Dorothy, murdered by Mau Mau

Gazette - 26/9/1923 - Voters Register - Kenya Province - Ian Hamilton Hope Meiklejohn, Farmer PO Suguroi

Gazette - 5/8/1925 - Voters Register - Kenya Province - Maud Louisa Meiklejohn, Widow PO Rumuruti

Best - Meiklejohn and his doctor wife, also retired, were sitting in their drawing room after supper when their houseboy led in a gang of 5 Mau Mau armed with pangas. Like most settlers the Meiklejohns had taken to carrying revolvers since the declaration of the Emergency. Dorothy Meiklejohn's wrist was slashed before she could get her pistol out of her bag, and her ear half-severed. She took so many cuts on the body that she fainted from loss of blood, whereupon the gang fled, assuming that both its victims were dead. But Dorothy Meiklejohn later recovered consciousness and with a shattered wrist drove seven miles into Thomson's Falls to fetch help for her husband. Then she allowed herself to be examined by her own doctor, who failed to recognise her, so badly was she cut up. In fact she survived - though her husband did not.                               

Campbell - The Meiklejohns kept saying their 'boys' were all right. Meiklejohn is dead, and his wife almost bled to death                                                                                                                  

Precarious - Dr Dorothy and her husband - they cut her face, her wrist to the bone, and even cut her ears. They slashed him about the arms, legs, and head such that he died before help could be brought to him. She drove to Thomson's Falls to tell the police what had happened.

Ione - Barely a month after the murder of Eric Bowyer, came the attack on Commander Meiklejohn and on his wife, a retired doctor. Comm. Meiklejohn, a man of 54, had lived on his farm at Thomson's Falls for 25 years. He had served in the Royal Navy during the two world wars, and had been torpedoed 3 times.

22-11-52 - Dr Meiklejohn looked up from the book she was reading and saw 5 Africans armed with pangas standing silently behind her husband. She cried "Look out Jock!" and reached for her handbag. As she drew out her revolver one of the gang cut through her wrist and the revolver fell out of her hand. Commander Meiklejohn received similar treatment. Some of the gang cut through his arm and knocked him over on his back, while others slashed at his wife till she fell on the floor unconscious. Leaving them both for dead the gang departed.

After a short time Dr. Meiklejohn recovered consciousness and struggled to her feet. Gravely wounded she staggered to the front door, where she saw her two houseboys standing. She told Watuso to get his bicycle and go to a neighbour, Lt. Col. Rushbrooke, for help, and walking to the garage, she managed to start up her car and drive 8 miles to Thomson's Falls Police Station where she collapsed.

Stoneham - Mau - Commander & Dr. Meiklejohn had finished dinner and were taking coffee in the lounge at the front of their house ....... A Kikuyu houseboy in white kanzu and cap was waiting upon his employers. Outside all was quiet, but from a distance on the next farm came the sounds of revelry where a drinking party was in full swing ....... Six Mau Mau suddenly arrived and locked the cook and kitchen boy in the outside kitchen, making no noise. They then stole along a covered pathway to the pantry door, disposing of the pantry boy by pushing him into a closet and threatening him with death if he gave the alarm. Then they rushed along the hall into the lounge. The houseboy fled through another door; the Mau Mau attacked the Europeans. Dr. Meiklejohn had time to shout: "Look out!" Her pistol was in her handbag and she rushed to get it.

As the Commander grabbed for his pistol he was cut over the arm with pangas. The Mau Mau crowded the couple into a corridor, beneath a hail of panga blows, and left the house, evidently believing they had killed the owners. Commander Meiklejohn managed to crawl into the hall and upstairs to his bedroom, where he tried to assemble his shotgun. His wife, badly cut on the face and both wrists, staggered out to the garage, where she got out her small saloon car and drove to Thomson's Falls. She did not stop at the doctor's house but went on to the police station, managing to stop the car before she fainted over the wheel.

Rob Ryan - 6/2/04 - East from T Falls on the Naro Moru road - Meiklejohns of Mau Mau notoriety. Jock killed by them, Dorothy chopped up but returned to farm, now dead. Sally, only child, went to New York, also I believe dead.

First President of Thomson's Falls Country Club in 1947

Gazette 23 June 1953 probate