SE - John W. Lenon - July 1907 and Kyambu Aug 1909

East Africa & Rhodesia - 6/11/52 - Mr John Walter Lenon, who has died in Kenya at the age of 73, went to East Africa 48 years ago to serve in the Administration, but a year later started a coffee farm near Kiambu, and was later one of the early presidents of the Coffee Planters' Association. He was a joint founder of Kiambu church.

Kiambu Scrapbook - Upper Kiambu - If we may include Kiamara under this head, this was one of the earliest farms to be developed and considered then to be one of the best. It was originally owned by Mr John Lenon, who became Secretary of the newly formed Coffee Planters' Union in 1909. When, in 1912, the coffee on certain farms was attacked by hemileia, this was considered  so terrible a scourge, as it had wiped out all the coffee in Ceylon, that the only remedy suggested was to destroy the whole plantation by fire; the resulting panic caused Mr Lenon to sell his farm to Sir Ian Bullough.

Land 1909 - J.W. Lenon and C.E.B. Dashwood - Buildings .114 acre - Nairobi - 4/8/09 - Leasehold for 99 years from 4/8/09 - Registered 28/12/09

Land - 1910 - John W. Lenon - Grazing and agricultural, 2687 acres - Kinanbop - 6/3/08 - Leasehold under Occupation Licence for 2 to 99 years from 1/8/10 - Registered 4/11/10

Land - 1911 - J.W. Lenon - Buildings, 10.56 acres - Kericho - 27/5/11 - Leasehold for 25 years from 1/7/11 - Registered 2/11/11

Land - 1912 - J.W. Lenon - Building and agricultural, 10.56 acres - Kericho - 27/5/11 - Leasehold for 99 years from 1/7/11 - Granted in exchange for lease registered in Nov. 1911, for 25 years, now cancelled - Registered 13/5/12

Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Kiambu - J.W. Lenon, Kiambu

Medals - East African Political Department - Uganda Intelligence Dept., Lieutenant

St. Paul's Church, Kiambu cemetery - John Walter Lenon, beloved husband of Catherine, 16/8/1879 - 21/9/1952. Inscription: John Walter Lenon / beloved husband of Catherine / 16 8 79 - 21-9-52 / the night is gone / and with the morn / those angel faces smile / which I have loved long since / and lost awhile

Red Book 1912 - J.W. Lennon [sic] - Nairobi

Red Book 1912 - Hon. Secretary - Coffee Planters'  Association

Gazette 2 Dec 1952 probate

Medals Uganda Railway Volunteers

Cambridge Univ. Alumni pens. at JESUS, Oct. 1899. S. of J. F., Captain, R.N., deceased. B. Aug. 16, 1879, at Hull. School, Chigwell (Rev. R. D. Swallow). Matric. Michs. 1899; B.A. 1903. Coffee and fibre planter in British East Africa. Of Nairobi in 1907. (Chigwell Sch. Reg., 1907.)