East Africa & Rhodesia - 30/11/50 - Mr W.J. Beeston, who went to Kenya some 40 years ago and founded the Molo Timber Co. and the Beeston Timber Co. Ltd., Njoro, has died suddenly in Nairobi.

East Africa & Rhodesia - 7/12/50 - The death of Mr W.J. "Jimmy" Beeston …… deprives Kenya of another pioneer settler of the days before the first world war, as well as a distinctive and energetic personality. About 40 years ago Jimmy arrived in the Colony with Colonel Grogan, and it was not long before he founded the Molo Timber Company, and later started the Beeston Timber Co. Ltd., at Njoro, which his enterprise and energy made a thriving business. Except for his service in the East African Mounted Rifles in the 1914-18 War, he devoted his working life in the colony to the timber trade. Outside his work, however, he had many interests, including racing (he won the EA Derby on one occasion), polo and golf. A prominent Freemason, he was well known for his generosity. He had requested a Masonic funeral and a memorial service was held at St. Christopher's Church, Nakuru. He leaves a widow, a daughter and two sons, one of whom is studying in this country.

Donated the Golf Hut at Njoro Golf Club in 1923.

Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Molo - W.J. Beeston (British), Saw Miller

Racing - Owner of 'Hyperbole' by 'Stepniak' - 'Veritas' - 1929

Racing - Owner of 'Charlatan' by 'Camsiscan' - 'Charity II' - 1929 - Winner of the Uasin Gishu Guineas in 1926 ridden by Mr Bumpus

Racing - Owner of 'Hyperbole' - Winner of the Kenya Derby 1929, ridden by Mr C. Bumpus

?William James Patrick - KR 4202 

Nairobi City Park Burial Register - Wallis James Beeston, age ?, died ? 

Nicholls - Nellie Grant suggested that the Njoro Settlers' Association ask an educated African to speak there: "I pointed out that really we had better know a bit more about the African than we did and the best way was to meet a real one. The time of the meeting led to much talk - it couldn't be in the Club House as usual because it wouldn't do for the educated African to see European ladies in the Bar (really 'cos J. Beeston etc. thought they might get landed in the position of having to offer a bloody nigger a drink). I longed to ask why an educated African couldn't see this as a long succession of uneducated African bar boys had survived the spectacle."

Rift Valley - 20 Feb 1926 - Suggested 'That the Library be open on Saturday afternoon.'

Rift Valley - Dec 1927 - Member of the Wine Committee with A.L. Purves.

Rift Valley - Dec 1927 - Building Committee - W.J. Beeston, F.W. Baillie, A.W. Dalrymple

Rift Valley - Member of the Rift Valley Sports Club - Jan 1929 - Elected - 15 Jun 1917 - W.J. Beeston

Gazette 11/2/1920 - Dissolution of Partnership between Walter James Beeston and Horace Charles Philip Waters under the style of Molo Timber Co. Business will be carried on by W.J. Beeston.

Gazette - 12/11/1919 - Register of Voters - Rift Valley Area - W.J. Beeston - Saw Miller & Timber Merchant - Njoro

Nakuru North cemetery - Jimmy Beeston - died 11/11/1950 aged 60

Red Book 1919 - W J Beeston - Settler - Molo

Red Book 1919 - District Committees - Nakuru - W.J. Beeston

Markham - acted as auctioneer at the sale of Charles Clutterbuck's assets when he went bust in 1920.

Red 25 - JP, Nakuru

Ancestry Passenger lists 1922 for Amy Hilda as wife. By 1949 he is travelling with Dorothy Edith

Mombasa Mbaraki cemetery - Mrs A. Hilda Beeston, died 12 Aug 1929 age 38, Nursing Home Mombasa, Sub-malaria, Heart Failure