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Name: GAITSKELL, Charles Ewbank Foot (Major)
Birth Date: 1878 St. Leonards-on-Sea
Death Date: 30.5.1936 Nairobi, shot wife then himself
First Date: 1920
Last Date: 1936
Profession: Stockbroker firm
Area: Nairobi, 1922 - Kericho, Ngong, 1930 Box 630, Nairobi
Married: In Kensington 3.9.1902 Mabel Lilian Sharp b. 1876 Eynsham, d. 30 May 1936 Nairobi, shot by her husband
Children: Charles Laurence (15.11.1903 Lewisham-1977); Henry Francis (15.11.1903 Lewisham-1948); Anthony Claude Edward (1907 Lewisham-1964); Pamela Claire Frances (1910 Elham-1998)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Aero, Barnes, Joelson, R.W. Moss
War Service: WW1 - RFA (TF), mentioned in despatches
School: Leamington College and Edinburgh Univ. (medicine)
General Information:
Aero - District Representative of Aero Club of East Africa 1927 - Nairobi - C. Gaitskell
Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery - Charles Eubank Gaitskell, British, age ?, died 30/5/36
Joelson - Advertisement for 'Charles Gaitskell, AISA, Agent, Broker, Secretary &c. - Local Agent for the Sun Insurance Office, Limited - Memorial Hall, Nairobi
R.W. Moss - Arrived Kenya March 1920 under BEADOC scheme (apparently, during WW1 he survived being buried in the trenches for 2 days). Growing flax in Kericho was a financial disaster, so was coffee at Ngong on a farm neighbouring Karen Blixen. So he started a stockbroker firm in Nairobi and she, a dress shop called "Mabs" in Delamere Ave. Things went badly and in 1936 he shot his wife and then himself.
KAD 1922 - President, Hon. Sec. and Treasurer, Kericho Farmers' Association.
KAD 1922 - Committee Member, Kericho Sports Club.
Red 25 - Member of Council, The Coffee Planters' Union of Kenya & EA.
Hut - BEADOC
Gazette - Voters List 1936 - Expunged from Nairobi North Register - Charles Eubank Foot Gaitskell, Incorporated Secretary, Box 630, Nbi and Mabel Lilian Foot Gaitskell, Married woman, Box 630
Gazette 18 June 1936 for Mabel's probate
Red 22 - G.C.E. Foot, Kericho
Gazette - 20/7/1921 - Register of Voters - Lake Area - Gaitskell Charled Edward Foot - Farmer - Kericho
Hut has G.S.E. Foot 1922 Kericho
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