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Name: VAN SOMEREN, Victor Gurner Logan LRCP&S, SLRFP&S
Nee: bro of Robert Abraham Logan Van Someren
Birth Date: 6 Oct 1886 Steiglitz, Melbourne, Australia
Death Date: 24 July 1976 Nairobi
First Date: 1912
Profession: Appointed to be Govt. Dental Surgeon. Also a keen ornithologist, he was for some years Sec. of EA and Uganda Natural History Soc. & wrote many books and pamphlets on bird life in Kenya & Uganda
Area: Uganda
Married: 1913 Elizabeth Thomson Cunningham b. 1887 Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, d. 17 July 1940 Nairobi
Children: Eric Logan (21 Mar 1917 Nairobi-1992); Kathleen; Gurner Robert Cunningham (10 Nov 1913 Nairobi-14 Aug 1997 Nairobi); Richard Kenneth Alexander; D. (son); Mary (1919)
Author: 'Bird Life in Uganda', 'Notes on Birds of Uganda and E. Africa'
Book Reference: Gillett, Horizon, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Red 22, Carman, Gazette, Campling, Leader14, Chandler, Red 19
School: Privately & George Watson's College, Edinburgh University & Roy. College of Surgeons
General Information:
Horizon - Kenton College - Once a term Dr. van Someren, then a dentist in Nairobi (later curator of the Coryndon Museum) visited Kenton to examine our teeth. He had a drill that was driven by a foot pedal and I defy anyone to think up a worse form of torture than that which V.G. van Someren meted out via his foot pedal and hand manipulated drill on a decayed back tooth! ........ he also talked about butterflies in the evening.
KAD 1922 - Govt. Dental Surgeon. - Hon. Sec. - EA and Uganda Natural History Society
Red 25 - Editor & Hon. Secretary, EA and Uganda Natural History Society
Red 22 - Editor and Hon. Secretary, East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society, Nairobi
Trans Nzoia Scrap Book - 'Butterfly and Moth Collecting in the Trans Nzoia' - ….. Dr Van Someren in Nairobi who was the founder and then curator of the Coryndon Museum. He is still very active and is, perhaps, the greatest naturalist in Eastern Africa, both in ornithology and entomology. He is now retired at Karen, but until a few years ago we went on many safaris together; I [T.H.E. Jackson] have learnt more from him than any other person. He was the inventor of the famous CHARAXES trap, a complication of strings, a bottom board and mosquito netting which, baited with fermented banana, will catch most of the Charaxes in the area in which it is placed.
Carman has Dr. V.A.L. Van Someren arriving in 1905?
Gazette - 23/9/1914 - Appt. - To be Captain, East Africa Medical Service - Dr. V.G.L. Van Someren
Gazette 1/6/1912 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Medical Officer - 18/5/1912
Red Book 1919 - Medical Officer, EA Protectorate 1918 - Dental Surgeon, Nairobi
Gazette 22 Apr 1977 probate
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