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Name: BELL, Christopher Richard Vincent OBE

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Photo Source: Phil Toye

Birth Date: 6 Oct 1911 Brighton, Sussex

Death Date: 20 Sep 2006 Haywards Heath

First Date: 1935

Last Date: 1961

Profession: Education Officer

Area: Kakamega, Narok, Kapsabet, Mombasa (Shimo-la-Tewa)

Married: 1. In Nakuru 1937 Violet Irene Edith Lorna Clutterbuck b. 9 Sep 1909 Steyning, d. 1989 Haywards Heath; 2. In Haywards Heath 1990 Rosamund Helen Salusbury-Trelawny née Ropes b. 9 Nov 1912 Kensington, d. 2002 Mendip, Somerset (prev. m. to John William Robin Maurice Salusbury-Trelawny 1908-1956)

Children: 2 sons

Book Reference: EAWL, Staff 39, Colonial

War Service: 1/6 KAR 1940-41. Dar es Salaam 1941, Language School, Kabete 1941-43

School: Winchester, Brasenose College, Oxford (BA Hons) and London University

General Information:

Education Officer, Kenya 1935-40, Director of Education, Somaliland 1943-51. Deputy Director & then Director, Uganda 1951-61. Education Officer, African, Educ Dept. in 1939, appointed 1935.

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