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Name: HAMMOND, Robert Alston CBE, MRCVS
Birth Date: 4 July 1906 Amsterdam, N. Transvaal
Death Date: 1992 Harare, Zimbabwe
First Date: 1930
Last Date: 1971
Profession: Colonial Veterinary Service, 1931. Deputy Director of Veterinary services, 1947 and Director in 1951. Retired in 1955 after having been awarded OBE in 1950 and CBE in 1955. Nominated Member of Legislative Council
Area: All over Kenya, finally Kabete, Machakos 1939
Married: In Mombasa Cathedral 1932 Frances Mary 'Mollie' Sier b. 1907 Ormskirk
Children: Robert (1938)
Book Reference: EAWL, Staff 39, Staff 53, Colonial, O&C
War Service: Running a piggery at Nyeri
School: School in Plumtree, S. Rhodesia, Beit Scholar 1922, Liverpool Univ., Edinburgh Univ. Peterhouse Cambridge 1929-30
General Information:
Qualified as Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons 1929 and awarded the Whalley Memorial Prize by the Royal College. Beit Fellowship 1930 for post-graduate work at Cambridge. Kenya Representative on the Board of Governors of Makerere University College in Uganda. Upon retirement appointed Chairman and Managing Director of the Laikipia Ranching Company and also Managing Director of Cooper, McDougal and Robertson, EA.
Founder President of the Kenya Bowling Association. President of the Boran Cattle Breeders Society. After 11 years of the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of Kenya, was appointed President of the Society in 1952. In that year Kenya 'hosted' the first ever meeting of the Royal Agricultural Societies of the Commonwealth to be held in Africa. In 1960 he was appointed Patron of the RASK and the main road through the Nairobi Showground was named Hammond Road.
With the advent of Independence in 1962, continued as a Vice-Patron and Hammond Road became Kenyatta Avenue. After 3 years in retirement on the Kenya Coast, Bob and Mollie returned to Zimbabwe and since 1971 have lived in Borrowdale. He was very involved in the control and eradication of rinderpest and East Coast fever. For the latter he had to make his vaccine in the field, killing one of the cattle brought along by the African farmers for that purpose, removing its spleen and making the vaccine on the spot. Things were pretty primitive in 1932. Deceased. Source: Mrs F.M. Hammond
Staff 39 - Veterinary Officer, Veterinary Dept., Kenya in 1939, appointed 1930
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