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Name: CAPON, Martin Gedge (Rev. Canon)

Birth Date: 24 Oct 1909 Greenwich, London

Death Date: 8 Dec 1998 Exmouth

First Date: 1933

Profession: Missionary

Area: Nairobi

Married: In Ugborough, Devon 25 June 1935 Dr. Mary Wills Hamlyn b. 19 May 1901 Plymouth, d. 21 June 1978 Totnes

Children: John (1938); Timothy (1940); Jean (Davies) (1942)

Author: 'Towards Unity in Kenya'

Book Reference: Who's Who 63, Foster, info from daughter

School: Dulwich College 1922-28; Cambridge University; Wycliffe Hall, Oxford 1934-35

General Information:

Who's Who 63 - Ordained priest Exeter 1936; Missionary CMS Kenya 1931-51; Education Officer and Chaplain Prince of Wales School from 1952 Foster - Canon 1949, Rural Dean Fort Hall 1951. In 1952 he was Chaplain of the Prince of Wales School. In 1963 he was the Chairman of KATCOM.
From daughter Jean Davies: Dr Mary Hamlyn came out to Kenya as a medical missionary to Kiloleni north of Mombasa. She was met by my father at Mombasa. He was doing a period in Africa to see if he wanted to go into the church. They became engaged. He returned to U.K. to go to theological college in Oxford. They could not get a replacement doctor, though managed it and she returned in May to marry my father in June. He did his curacy in Exeter, and sailed for Kenya. In 1936 they arrived in Mombasa and she was immediately asked to run a clinic for Asian women, as the doctor who did it (no one else looked after Asian women) was ill. Meanwhile my father was off up country. The following year in Kahuhia Mary had so many visitors staying, and she was a welcoming person.
She died in Devon on 12 June 1980.

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