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Name: COLLINS, Leonard
Birth Date: 17 May 1899 London
Death Date: 28 Nov 1967 Chester
First Date: 1922
Last Date: 1962
Profession: Company Director - Old East African Trading Co. Ltd. and Coffee Services Ltd (coffee broker)
Area: Mombasa
Married: 1. In Edmonton 1921 Winifred Sophia Wilson b. 18.1.1898, div.1943, d. 1990; 2. Nancie Ovens (FANY) b. 6 Oct 1910, d. 1991 in Kingston Hospital, Surrey
Children: Reginald Leonard (7 Apr 1922 London-21 July 2016 Redhill, Surrey); Ann Lillian (1932)
Book Reference: EAWL, Who's Who, Red 31
War Service: 1915-18 Royal Fusiliers, France; 1941-42 Kenya Defence Force
School: Tottenham Boys' School
General Information:
Went to Kenya in 1906 and ended up shipping coffee to the UK from Mombasa. Returned to UK in 1962.
Source: R.L. Collins and Source: Mrs Jane Lesley Cameron
Who's Who 1954 - Past Pres. Mombasa Cham. of Comm. and Agric., Coffee Trade Assn. of E. Africa, Royal Soc. of St. George, Mombasa Br., Rotary Club of Mombasa, EASPCA., Mombasa Br., Coast European Assn., Mombasa and Coast; Past Dep. Chair. Mombasa Munic. Bd.; Past Chair. Health, Finance and Gen. Purposes Comms. of Mombasa Munic. Bd.; Chair. Mombasa Citizens C.O.L. Comm., Coffee Services Ltd., Mombasa Coffee Storage Ltd., Mombasa, L. Collins Ltd., Moshi, Tanganyika; Partner Messrs Colvale & Co. Moshi; Mombasa Agent of Uganda Non-Native Coffee Marketing Bd.; Hon. Hard Coffee Controller during WW2; F.M., Officer of District Grand Lodge of E. Africa, Officer Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Scotland, Past Master Mombasa Lodge, Past 1st Principal Mombasa Royal Arch Chapter; Hobbies: Tennis, golf, service of any kind for benefit of mankind.
Gazette 28 July 1968 probate
Committed Freemason