Finally laid down and maintained the first grass tennis court at the coast in their garden at Kilifi.   

1924 - visited brother Reginald Moray Graham - known as George, working in Forestry Dept.; 1926 returned to live in Kenya - worked on a dairy farm at Eldoret. 1928 joined transport company with Tub Roberts, Jackie Hall & Pinkie Jackson. Drove lorries from Kitale with posho, sugar etc. to Lodwar and returned with hides. 1932 Goldmining in Kakamega for a very short time. 1933 Agricultural Officer with colonial govt. stations included Kericho, Kisii, Kakamega, Bukura, Maseno, Kilifi and finally Kisumu. 1951 Took early retirement (due to excessive desk work!). 1951-53 Ranch Manager - Laikipia. 1953-63 Ranch Manager Athi River (Kenplains Estate), Ranch sold by UK owners and moved to Kilifi. 1965-67 Settlement Officer with Kenya Government. 1972 Took out Kenya Citizenship. Bought Kilifi property in 1945 in partnership with Bob Hammond (colonial veterinary service). Used the house for holidays annually. Built boats to fish and sail at the coast. Experimented with agricultural and recreational grasses, wrote papers and booklets on the subject, built and maintained golf courses, bowling greens, tennis courts (including first grass tennis court at the coast). While living at Kilifi, built or altered 21 houses for up-country settlers retiring to the coast.  Source: Mrs D. Graham

Golf - Kakamega GC. - The greens came on magnificently and Malcolm Graham was the brain behind these - what he doesn't know about grasses in Kenya isn't worth knowing and his treatise on the subject is worth getting. Runner-up in the Goldfields Golf Championship in 1940

 He made a study of EA recreational grass and worked with a number of golf courses (as well as playing).

Gazette 20 May 1983 - probate

Footsteps in the Sand - Caroline Graham (daughter): Malcolm Graham, my father, was born and brought up in South Africa. When he leftAgricultural College in the early 1920's, he came north to Kenya to visit an older brother who, on discharge from the army after the1st World War, had taken a degree in forestry, joined the Colonial Service and he had been posted to Londiani. My father thought Kenya infinitely better than South Africa and never left it except for leave from the Agricultural Department which he eventually joined. When he arrived, he did a bit of gold-mining at Kakamega, then with threelike-minded friends, ran a transport business from Kitale to Lodwar taking essential supplies and bringing back hides and skins. He then joined the Agricultural Department in which he worked for 15 or so years, leaving to become a farm manager for the rest of his working life, first in Laikipia then the Athi Plains. Doe Graham, my mother, first came to Kenya in the early 1930's. Her parents had lived in India when she was born. They then moved to Australia. My grandfather joined the Australian Army at the outbreak ofthe 1st World War and Granny sailed back to UK with three children where they settled, first in the Wirral then North Wales. My mother had a lifelong friend with whom she had been to school and University where they both had trained as Primary school teachers. When they left university, her friend married a vet in the Colonial Service who was posted to Kajiado. When her first baby was due, her friend asked my mother if she could come and help her; Kajiado being somewhat isolated. My mother had been ill and was not working at the time so she gladly came out to help and was so taken with Kenya, that she applied for and got a job at Nakuru Primary School. Her friend's husband - the vet - was moved to Maseno where my father was then Agricultural officer and they met there.My mother continued teaching for most of her life, doing a stint at the
Teacher Training College in Machakos then taking over the Rift Valley Correspondence Course from Margaret Nicholson. She renamed it the Postal Primary School and ran it for some 15+ years from their retirement home in Kilifi.