Brewery - 1933 - Japanese beer being dumped at Mombasa threatening Kenya Breweries products - Mr Edgely told the directors that in Mombasa he had drunk this beer and the "general opinion was that it was the best beer ever imported". The wholesale price could be reduced by a considerable amount, thought Mr Edgely. He had discovered that the FOB price Japanese port was only Shs. 14 a case. But Tusker was safe enough in Nairobi and up-country because of the cost of railway freight.

Macmillan - 1930 - The Norfolk Hotel - … the hotel was purchased by Mr W.H.E. Edgley, the present proprietor, in 1923, he had previously managed it for about 10 years, together with the Hotel Metropole at Mombasa, and the Victoria Hotel at Entebbe, for the then owners, the East Africa and Uganda Corporation Ltd. That enterprising gentleman has completely reorganised the Norfolk, which has been equipped throughout with new furniture specially imported for the purpose and with the most modern conveniences …… The large game farm, "Two Buttons" Ranch, covering an area of about 16 square miles, on the Athi  Plains, some 26 ,miles from Nairobi, and owned by Major H.B. Dunman and Mr W.H.E. Edgley, also provides a comparatively inexpensive attraction for such of the hotel visitors who possess the necessary qualifications and licences for a little shooting …….. Mr Edgley is one of the best known men in the colony, but space is not available here for a resume of his remarkable career, which has embraced practically every usual occupation in life. As a member of the Municipal Council of Nairobi he has "pulled his weight" for the public welfare. He is a director of the Kenya Breweries Ltd., and is interested in tea and coffee planting, horse breeding, wheat growing etc.

Racing - Owner of 'Sovereign' - 1929

Racing - Owner of 'Simoon' by 'Wise Dove' - 'Simonette' - 1929

Racing - Owner of 'Wayward' - 1930

Racing - Owner of 'Brown Prince' - 1930

Racing - Presented the Hunter's Cup - A Handicap race open to all Countrybred Horses

Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery - William Harold Edward Edgley, British, age 60, died 12/5/39 - to the sacred memory / of / Mabel the beloved wife of / W H E Edgley / who died December 3rd 1927 / aged 41 / I gather to me all / my saints and of / W H E Edgley who died / 13th May 1939 aged 55 in loving memory of a dear sister / Bertha McKay / died 2nd May 1962 / aged 66

Gazette - 12/11/1919 - Register of Voters - Nairobi, North Area - William Harold Edward Edgley - Company Manager, Norfolk Hotel

Red 22 - Member, Nairobi Municipal Council

Mills Norfolk - When the East Africa and Uganda Corporation took over the hotel after Major Ringer (they already had the Metropole and the Grand Hotel in Mombasa and the Hotel Victoria at Entebbe in Uganda) they put W H E Edgley in as manager, another great Norfolk Hotel character. He stayed with them until he bought the hotel for himself in 1923, for sum of Rs 150,000

Mills Norfolk - A short, thickset man, running to weight in his later years, Edgley, true to the 'Norfolk type' with his farms, his horses and his other hotels, was also a most successful speculator. When he died, he left considerable assets accumulated from his various investments. .

One of the pioneers of East African Breweries whose first deliveries of locally-made beer were made to Nairobi hotels in 1922, he was a vehement, pugnacious man, who always believed that right was on his side which, as one of his Trustees was to say after Edgley's death "it usually was". One could not see Lord Delamere shutting Mr Edgley in his own meat safe, with a few dead sheep.

He left all his money to his niece and, after her, to appointed Trustees for charitable purposes at their discretion, but exclusively to charities in Kenya. The amount was large, as might be expected from a person who had so successfully managed no less than three widely dispersed premier hotels. It enabled the Trustees to halp many varied charities, largely with recurrent expenses."

In the early 1960s the Trustees built and paid for a memorial to Edgley in the chapel in the crypt of Nairobi's splendid and architecturally famous Parliament buildings. The stained glass window in the chapel was the gift of one of the Edgley Trustees, Humphrey Slade, EBS, a one-time Speaker of the House.

Gazette - Voters List 1936 - William Harold Edgley, Marlborough Estate, Nbi