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Name: GRAFTON, Edgar Noel

Birth Date: 1895 East Ham, Essex

Death Date: 9 Nov 1954 Limuru, killed by a buffalo

Profession: Hunter, farmer, agent

Area: Kanona farm, Limuru

Married: Mary Elizabeth, MRCVS (possibly dau. of William Lochead)

Book Reference: Chandler, Hut

General Information:

Chandler - A professional hunter employed by the Safariland firm in the 1920s, Grafton was hunting buffalo with his friend Sheila Herne one day near Lake Naivasha. He was killed following up a wounded buffalo after three slugs from his .470 failed to stop the animal's charge. Grafton was gored through the face. Herne's brother-in-law, John Douglas later killed the buffalo.
Gazette 21 May 1946 E.N. Grafton, Kanona farm, Limuru
Gazette 9 Jan 1962 Mary Elizabeth Grafton MRCVS, Box 62, Limuru
Gazette 29 Mar 1974 Mary Elizabeth Grafton, referred to in the will as Mary Elizabeth Lochead, of Box 24614, Karen, executrix of William Lochead's will - he d. Nairobi 20 July 1974
FindaGrave Edgar Noel GRAFTON BIRTH 1895 DEATH 1954 (aged  58–59) BURIAL All Saint's Church Cemetery Limuru, Kiambu, Kenya Inscription Edgar Noel Grafton / in loving / memory / 1895 - 1954

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