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Name: RODWELL, Kenneth Edward Hunter

Nee: bro of Douglas Evelyn Hunter Rodwell, son of William Hunter Rodwell of Holbrook Lodge, Ipswich

Birth Date: 13 Sep 1880 St Mary Abbots, London

Death Date: 1960 Droxford, Hants

First Date: 1912

Profession: Farmed at Nyali Estate, Mombasa. Was Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council

Area: Mombasa

Married: 1916 Margaret Grace Blain b. 24 June 1889, d. 8 Dec 1990 Greenwich (eldest dau of William Neill Blain)

Children: Robert Hunter (1917 Holbrook, Suffolk-1974); William Edward Hunter (15 Nov 1919 Nairobi-1991 Cambridge); Benjamin Bernard Hunter (1922 Henley, Bucks.-8 Aug 1941, on active service RAF crashed into North Sea)

Book Reference: Gillett, Meikle, KAD, Red 25, Red 22, Gazette, Burke, Eton, Red 19

War Service: Lieut. Imperial Yeomanry in SA 1900-01, 1914-16 Arab Rifles in EA and Magadi Defence Force

School: Eton College

General Information:

Red 25 - Committee Member, REAAA

Red 22 - Justice of the Peace - Mombasa

Gazette - 8/4/14 - appt. JP Mombasa

Gazette - 4/11/1914 - Appt. - Mombasa Defence Force - To be Lieutenant - K.H. Rodwell, late Lieutenant Imperial Yeomanry (resigned appointment w.e.f. September 16th 1914)

Eton (1899) - School Fives 1898; in business

Red Book 1919 - Legislative Council - The Hon K.E.H. Rodwell - Unofficial Member

Red Book 1919 - District Committees - Mombasa - K.H. Rodwell

Meikle - Manager of the Nyali Sisal Company - 1912.

KAD 1922 - Elected Member of Legco for Mombasa.

KAD 1922 - Committee Member, Mombasa Club

President, Mombasa Club 1923, 1931

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