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Name: PEREIRA, Herbert Charles 'Perry' FRS, Sir

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Nee: son of Herbert John Pereira

Birth Date: 13 May 1913 Holborn, London

Death Date: 19 Dec 2004 Teston, Maidstone

First Date: 1946

Last Date: 1961

Profession: Physicist, Dep. Director EAAFRO, later in Rhodesia as Director of Agric. Research Council, from 1969 in UK E. Malling Research Station until 1973 then Chief Scientist Min. of Ag. Whitehall; FRS for work in Kenya; Knighted in 1977

Area: Nairobi, Ruiru, Muguga

Married: In Aldershot 1941 Irene Beatrice Sloan b. 13 Jan 1915 Belfast, d. 15 June 2017

Children: David (1944); Julie Helen (1946); Martin Paul (1948) Nigel (1952)

Book Reference: EAWL, Telegraph

War Service: Capt. in RE, then Major in M.East, Italy, Europe

School: St. Albans School, London University, BSc, PHd (While a Cadet in Army)

General Information:

Source: Lady Pedraza
Telegraph - Obituary - 1 Feb 2005
East African Agriculture and Forestry Research Organisatiom

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