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Name: LEAKEY, Richard Herbert BA (Rev.)
Nee: cousin of Harry Leakey, son of James Leakey, bro of Frederick and Ernest and cousin of Arundell Gray Aundell Leakey
Birth Date: 9.3.1868 Budleigh Salterton, Devon
Death Date: 15.4.1937 Marley, Exmouth
Nationality: British
First Date: 1892
Last Date: 1926
Profession: CMS missionary, devoted the whole of his long life and very active career to the Kikuyu people and translated the Bible into Kikuyu. Gravestone at Limuru says - Canon of Mombasa. CMS Missionary - set off for Uganda with Bishop Tucker in Sept. 1892
Area: Lived at Kabete until his retirement, Drumkey - Ndejo, Entebbe
Married: In Reading 21 Mar 1899 Mabel Gertrude Bazett (arrived EA 1892) b. 28 May 1869 Agra, India, d. 11 Jan 1936 Exmouth
Children: Richard Arundell Bazett (3.4.1901 Namirembe 1st European child born at Kampala--9 Oct 1954 Skipton); Charles John Bazett (17 July 1902 Kampala-2 July 1971 Sidmouth); Mary Eleanor Bazett (Boucher) (17 July 1902 Kampala-18 June 1986 Horley, Surrey)
Book Reference: Gillett, SE, HBEA, KFA, Oscar, Binks, Bewes, White African, Tignor, Tucker, EAHB 1905, Red 25, Red 31, North, Drumkey, Red 22, BEA, EAHB 1906, CMS, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907, Web
School: King's School Bruton, Stamford G.S. and Corpus Christi, Cambridge and Ridley Hall, Cambridge
General Information:
Binks - ....near the McGregor's house another similar house was being constructed in readiness for the impending arrival of the Rev. Harry Leakey, his wife, child and nurserymaid.
Bewes - carried on the work at Kabete after Rev McGregor moved on to establish the mission station at Weithaga
White African - Dec. 1901 - after the birth of two daughters, he sailed for Mombasa and travelled thence to Kabete, where he had been appointed to take over the work of the newly established station, and a few months later his wife joined him there, taking with her their two sisters and Miss Oakes to help in looking after them. .........…
CMS missionaries normally spent 4 years in the field before returning on leave, but in Leakey's case ill health prevented this and he returned to England in Feb. 1905. ....... Returned to Kabete in Dec. 1906
Tucker - hard at work in Gayaza 1896.
Tucker - at Koki in Aut 1896 .... 1897 Uganda Mutiny - in danger at Koki. ....... homeward bound in March 1898. ......... he was the first resident missionary at Koki in 1895 until Clayton arrived in 1897 .......... the old Mission station at Koki built by Leakey, after having been used by the soldiery as a fort, had been abandoned.
EAHB 1905 - CMS, Ndeje, Uganda
Red 25 - Canon of Uganda Cathedral; Uganda Mutiny Medal 1897; one of the first missionary party to travel to Uganda with Bishop Tucker in 1892; senior CMS Missionary in Uganda. B. Devon 1868; educ. Stamford G.S. and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; m. Mabel Gertrude Bazett.
North - b. 1868 - Aged 24 dep. for EA 9/5/1892 arr. Mombasa 9/6/1892; dep. Freretown for Uganda 26/9/1892; Bulamwezi Oct 1895; Koki Nov Dec 1895; "Stays at Koki until Clayton has passed language exams" CMI June 1897; dep. Mombasa on leave 23/4/1898; m. Miss Mable Gertrude Bazett 21/3/1899, Reading; dep London with wife for EA via Cape 13/6/1899; arr. Mengo 30/9/1899; Ndeji, Toro; Deacon 25/1/1901; Priest 7/6/1903, d. 1937
Drumkey 1909 - CMS Uganda - Ndeje
CMS 1892 - Age 24. Of Blaby Rectory, Leicester. Stamford Gram. Sch.; CC Coll and Ridley Hall, Camb. BA Math Honours; Medical Student at Leicester Hosp. 1891, Apr 7, accepted by CMS. 1892 May 9, to E. Eq. Africa - Uganda - Mission. Note by Roy Dunstan - Cousin of Harry Leakey
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