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Name: HITCHEN, Harold Stone. (Rev.)
Birth Date: 30 July 1889 Manchester
Death Date: 3 Oct 1944 Great Smeaton, nr Northallerton
First Date: 1924
Profession: CMS Maseno
Area: Kisumu
Married: In Prestwich 1913 Sarah Dodd b. 17 May 1889 Lancaster
Children: Eric Stone (1920); Kenneth Stone (1927)
Book Reference: Hut, Foster
General Information:
?Maseno School website Rev. J.C. Hitchen is on record for serving the shortest term in office as a principal. He took over the reins of the school from Rev. J. Britton in February 1926, and served for only ten months till December in the same year. He proceeded to start a Formal School In Butere in Current Butere Girls' School.
?Among the C.M.S pioneer missionaries who propagated western formal education in Nyanza included Canon Stanfield, Rev H.C Hitchen, Mr. E.Carey Francis (Former principal of Maseno and Alliance high school, Mr. White, Archdeacon Chadwick, Mr. G.S Webb, Mrs. Saville, Dr Harold Darke, Mr. Mackey, Rev J. J Willis, Rev Tucker, Dr. Scott (of the church of Scotland Mission), Edith Hills and Canon A.E Pleydell.
1939 England and Wales Register Harold Stone Hitchen living in Manchester with wife.
J.C. Hitchen and H.C. Hitchen, both Rev., must be different people
Gazette 31 Mar 1926 H.S. Hitchen auth for registering marriages