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Name: MARSHALL, Robert Husband (Capt.)

Birth Date: 23.1.1898 Dunfermline, Scotland

Death Date: 19.1.1978 Durban

First Date: 1926

Last Date: 1959

Profession: Army Officer 1914-18; subsequently a farmer. Early farmer first in coffee, in which he became an expert, and later in cattle - he became an Ayrshire breeder of some note and his dairy cattle won many prizes at shows when he was managing Kongoni Farm

Area: Ruiru, Kitisuru, Naivasha, N. Kinangop, 1925 Farm 832B Nanyuki, 1930 Box 401, Nairobi, 1937 Northbrook Est. Ruiru

Married: 1929 Olive 'Judy' Wilks b. 4.7.1894 Birmingham, d. 1979 Durban, S. Africa

Children: Jeremy (10.10.1931-1963); Ann Margaret (Staniland) (29.5.1934 Nairobi)

Book Reference: EAWL, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Bap

War Service: Served in France and in the Indian Cavalry in India

School: Fettes College

General Information:

Managed Kongoni farm, Naivasha, for Comte Roget de Perigny.   Source: Mrs A. Staniland
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Kiambu Voters Roll
Nat Probate Calendar
Ancestry Passenger list Mombasa-London 1 Mar 1956

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