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Name: TARLTON, Alan Fernie
Nee: son of Henry Herbert Tarlton
Birth Date: 11 July 1902 Johannesburg
First Date: 1903
Profession: Farmer, jockey, white hunter and snake venom collector
Area: Nairobi, 1930 Box 612, Nairobi
Married: 6 Dec 1933 Evelyn Maud Baxendale b. 1 Sep 1893 Fiji Taviune, d. 23 July 1979 March, Cambridgeshire (div.); 2. ?Morea
Children: one son
Book Reference: Gillett, Cobbold, Red 25, Red 31, Burke, Chandler, Red Book 1912
War Service: RAMC in WW2
General Information:
Allan [sic] Fernie - KR 3014
Chandler - With 40 years of professional experience, Alan Tarlton was one of the most respected of Kenya's white hunters. He had good DNA for the job, being Leslie Tarlton's nephew and the son of hunter/jockey Henry Tarlton. …………… Like Ionides, Tarlton was something of a snake man. He maintained a puff-adder farm where hundreds of the creatures were kept in pits. The venom was used to produce Vitamin K. During WW2 his serpentarium held more than 3000 snakes. Their venom was shipped to the South Africa Institute of Medical Research. He also provided the 17 foot python and the spitting cobra that threatened Stewart Granger in the movie 'King Solomon's Mines'. Tarlton's wife Morea had a reputation as quite an elephant hunter herself.
Red Book 1912 - A. Tarlton - Kyambu
1939 England and Wales Register for 1st wife