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Name: CRISP, Herbert John (always known as John Herbert)
Nee: bro of Arthur Frederick Crisp
Birth Date: 1898 Chadwell Heath, Essex, bapt 27 Nov.
Death Date: 4.5.1958 Nairobi
First Date: 1919
Last Date: 1958
Profession: Asst. General Manager, African Mercantile Co. Ltd.
Area: Bukoba, Mwanza, Dar-es-Salaam, Nairobi, 1930 Box 230, Nairobi
Married: In Dar es Salaam 1924 Margery Grace Dean b. 1901 Poplar, London, left Kenya 1969, d. 19 May 1988 George, S. Africa
Children: Rosalind Gerda Michaela (1925, Kenya Govt. servant, left Kenya 1969)
Book Reference: EAWL, Seventy, Red 31, Red 22, EA & Rhodesia, Harmony, Barnes
War Service: Enlisted Aug. 1914 aged 15 yrs. 10 months - France and Belgium (Army) wounded 3 times
School: Whalebone College, Chadwell Heath
General Information:
Source Miss R.G.M. Crisp,
Seventy - Mrs Crisp was DVP of Mombasa EAWL from 1933-38
Red 22 - H.J. Crisp, Zanzibar
EA & Rhodesia - 12/6/58 - Mr John Herbert Crisp a local director of the African Mercantile Co. Ltd. Has died suddenly in Nairobi at the age of 60. Born in England, he was educated at Whalebone College, Chadwell Heath, Essex and he had just entered the office of an insurance company in the City of London when war broke out in 1914. Though then only 16 years of age, he managed to enlist in the Northamptonshire Regiment by misrepresenting his date of birth, and he served in that unit until the end of the war, being wounded in France in 1918. On demobilization he joined the African Mercantile Co. Ltd., and was posted to Zanzibar. Afterwards he served in branches in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika Territory, eventually becoming in succession joint acting general manager, assistant general manager, and then local director. His brother, the late A.F.M. Crisp, had been general manager in East Africa for a number of years. J.H. Crisp had been a keen golfer, angler, cricketer, and player of bowls and bridge. He was a member of many social and sporting clubs in the territory. In 1924 he married in Dar es Salaam, Margery Grace Dean, who survives him with one daughter.
Member of Lodge Harmony - Initiated 6/7/31
Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery - Herbert John Crisp, British, age 60, died 4/5/58
Founder member of Dar-es-Salaam Yacht Club, Mombasa Club, Nairobi Club, Royal Nairobi Golf Club - both he and his wife were prize-winners
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