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Name: BULLOUGH, George, 1st Bart., Sir
Nee: 1st and last Baronet
Birth Date: 28 Feb 1870 Accrington
Death Date: 26 July 1939 Chateua de Courset, Desvres, Pas de Calais, France, while playing golf
First Date: 1920
Profession: Farmer, horse breeder, playboy
Area: Kiamara, Kiambu
Married: In Isle of Rum, Scotland 24 June 1903 Monique Lilly Ducarel de la Pasture b. 7 Apr 1869 Cheviot, Hurunui, Canterbury, N. Zealand, d. 1967 Newmarket (dau. of 4th Marquis de la Pasture and prev. m. to Charles Edward Nicholas Charrington 1859-1936)
Children: Hermione (5 Nov 1906 Westminster-1990) (m. in London 1931 as his 2nd wife, the 5th Earl of Durham)
Book Reference: Hut, Debrett, Kiambu Scrapbook, Wikipedia
School: Harrow
General Information:
Sometime Capt. Scottish Horse Yeo.; re-attached Aug 1914 subsequently becoming temporary Major of Remounts. Knt. 1901 created Baronet 1916
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 [sic] Bullough.