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