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Name: SHEPHERD, Eleanor Kathleen Ferrar, Mrs
Nee: Binns, daughter of Archdeacon Harry Kerr Binns
Birth Date: 1883 Mombasa
Death Date: 11.7.1955 Nairobi
First Date: 1883
Last Date: 1922
Profession: Missionary
Area: Mombasa
Married: In Mombasa 30.12.1908 Dr Richard Kenneth Shepherd of the CMS (1882-1946)
Children: Charles Duncan Ferrar (4 Dec 1909 UK-2003)); Nancy Eleanor ( 2 Aug 1911 Frere Town-2002); Richard Harry Woolley (10 July 1915 Frere Town-1942); John Kenneth (24 Oct 1916 Frere Town-1932); another
Book Reference: Gillett, EA & Rhodesia, North
General Information:
East Africa & Rhodesia - 28/7/55 - Mrs E.K.F. Shepherd, widow of Dr. Richard Kenneth Shepherd, a former missionary at Mzizima Hospital, Mombasa, and daughter of Archdeacon H.K. Binns, a missionary in Mombasa from 1875 to 1923, has died in Nairobi at the age of 72. Dr. and Mrs Shepherd left Kenya in 1922 and settled in Cardiff, where he died 24 years later. At the time of her death Mrs Shepherd was staying with her daughter, Mrs Nancy Shepherd, of the Community Development Department of Kenya.