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Name: SCOTCHMER, James Gordon
Birth Date: 10 Dec 1888 Twickenham
Death Date: 13.3.1987 Nairobi
First Date: 1927
Last Date: 1987
Profession: Sales manager
Area: Box 657, Nairobi
Married: Elsa Cooke b. 14 Apr 1905 Tunbridge Wells, d. 1942
Children: Gordon Edmund (1928); Arthur James (20 Apr 1930); David William (25 June 1932); Elsa June (18 June 1935)
Book Reference: Red 31, Barnes, Foster, David Scotchmer
General Information:
Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery - James Gordon Scotchmer, British, age 99, died 13/3/87
Foster - 28 April 1943 elected to be the first Hon. Treasurer of the Christian Council of Kenya at its inaugural meeting.
Gazette - Voters List 1936 - James Gordon Scotchmer, Sales Manager, Box 1237, Nbi and Elsa Scotchmer, Married woman, Box 1237, Nbi
David Scotchmer (son) My father went to Kenya in early 1927 with the intention of being a missionary for the Apostolic Faith Church but the church was unable to fund him so he took the job of salesman with G North & Son, a company selling agricultural equipment. Soon after the beginning of the second world war Bill Mitchel the Director was called into the Kenya Airforce as he had flying experience and my father was made General Manager, the position he held until he retired in 1953. He remained in Kenya until he died in 1987. Amongst other voluntary work during his retirement he helped to build additional classrooms at a CMS school in Bucoba and also carried out maintenance work at Gertrude’s Garden Children's Hospital in Nairobi.