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Name: SOLLY, Noel Richard OBE

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Birth Date: 7 Feb 1905 Wimborne

Death Date: 27 June 1980 Little Waltham, Essex

First Date: 1930

Last Date: 1974

Profession: Coffee farmer, Kabazi Estate, Kiambu. Chairman of Coffee Board

Area: Kiambu, Hut - Fort Ternan, Mutuma Estate Thika, pupil at Kiana Estate

Married: In Chelsea 1934 Gillian Emma Olivier MBE b. 3 May 1905 Millbrook, Hants., d. 21 Feb 1991 Wilton, Wilts. (President EAWL in Kenya)

Children: Harriet Mary (1936); Emily T. (1937); another dau.

Book Reference: EAWL, Seventy, Hut, Kiambu Scrapbook, O&C, Wolseley-Lewis

School: Wellington, Worcester College Oxford 1924-28

General Information:

Source: Mrs H.M. Middleboe
Kiambu Scrapbook - A famous Kiambu car of this type [box body] and still going strong is the T. Model Ford B7320, which was bought by Mr J.S. Hall, one of the earliest Kiambu settlers, in 1926. He later sold it to Mr W.L.H. Moss, another pre 1914 farmer in this district, who travelled to Nairobi in it once a month; he never used it for any other purpose and had to re-charge the batteries every time he took it out. On his death in 1955 it was bought by Mr N.R. Solly and has appeared from time to time in the vintage car rallies currently held in Nairobi.
Wolseley-Lewis - 1930s - The three top estates were Anmer, Kibazi and Kiora. Kibazi, belonging to Freddie Ward, was managed by Noel Solly, who came from the same village as me, Wimborne, and I knew him well. He was older than me and had been a great racing car buff when he was at University, and had very kindy taken me to Brooklands. It was one of the occasions when Campbell was driving his record-breaking car, Bluebird, round the track. Noel had one of the first synchromesh geared cars and was very pleased with it.

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