President of Ruiru Sports Club in 1927.

Advertiser - Friday April 2, 1909 - Government School Prizegiving - Drawing Prize 2 - Robert Kirton

Advertiser - Friday April 2, 1909 - Government School Prizegiving - Standard III Form Prize 3 - Stella Kirton

Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Major W. Kirton, DCM, 'Kia Lami', Gerrards Cross, Bucks - Farm 1024 - Representative, Lieut. W. Kirton, Nairobi

St. Paul's Church, Kiambu cemetery - Walter Kirton, who died 15 March 1937, aged 71, erected by the brethren of Lodge Donyo Sabuk.

Web - Capt Walter Kirton, a veteran of the Transvaal campaign and correspondent in the Far East for the Central News, a London newsgathering association...Capt. Kirton served throughout the campaign in South Africa and was a participant in numerous sharp engagements. He resigned from the army at the close of that war and joined the Central News. When the war between Japan and Russia threatened, {he} was chosen to organize the Central News war bureau in the Orient. He went out from London by way of the Transsiberian Railroad, leaving the English capital in December and completing the work of organizing a corps of correspondents in all the Oriental cities within 39 days from the time he started. (He) himself went to Tokyo and was one of the 15 correspondents given permission to join the Japanese Army.

He was with Jack London, The Times' correspondent at the front, and the two decided at the same time to return home. (He) was delayed two weeks in Tokyo, but passed through Seattle yesterday on his way to San Fran to see Mr. London...(lengthy interview)(He)will go from San Francisco to London. He is to write a book descriptive of war conditions and the country generally and will ask Jack London's recommendations on the American features of the book. He will also seek an American publisher.

3/31/1906 The marriage of Mrs. Vivian Jones and Captain Walter Kirton, war correspondent and special correspondent for the London Graphic, took place this morning in County Clerk Eldredge's private office. The ceremony was performed by Deputy Clerk David A. Smith. The only persons to witness the marriage was Frank E. McGurrin and Effie C. Butler. The couple left this afternoon for San Fran, where they will depart for China.

Philadelphia Enquirer 4/1/1906 ...Captain Walter Kirton has been a prospector, gold miner, engineer, guide, scout, hunter, seaman, correspondent, and a soldier…

Fort Worth Star-Telegram 6/9/1907 Full length pictures of both- her caption reads Mrs. Walter Kirton She accompanied her distinguished husband and was an object of great curiosity among the starving natives Story about famine in China

Considine - European School Nairobi - Robert Kirton - 1/2/1906 - Nbi

Gazette - 10/8/1921 - Register of Voters - Kikuyu Area - Major Walter Kirton - Coffee Planter, Kahuguni - Ruiru and Elizabeth Kirton - Kahuguni - Ruiru

Red 25 - Hon. Secretary & Treasurer, Ruiru Farmers' Association

Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Kiambu Voters Roll

Howarth Neighbour of the G.D. Howarths when they were at Ruiru in the 20's [as Curtin]

FindaGrave Walter was the fourth child of Robert Hill Kirton and Martha Emma Jesper. Raised in a Quaker family he attended Sidcot School in Winscombe and later trained as an mechanical engineer under his uncle, industrialist Richard Tangye. He then launched on a illustrious career in many counties around the world, first as an engineer, then as a soldier in the Boer War, and war correspondent. He was also the 20th founding member of the League of Frontiersmen. He married twice, first to Isabella Ross who died in 1903 at Longmore, Gairloch in Scotland and is buried there. In 1906 he married Elizabeth Darby with whom he shared his adventures until her death in 1924. After following the Russo-Japaneses War as a war correspondent, Walter lived and worked in China for many years, and then continued with military duties in England until he retired in 1920 and became a coffee planter in Kenya, with his nephews Walter Kirton Jr. and Lionel Argent Kirton. Walter died in a nursing home in Nairobi following a brief illness. He is buried in St. Paul Cemetery, Kiambu, Kenya, the gravesite erected and maintained by the Brethern of Lodge Donyo Sabuk. He had no children from either marriage. Held in high esteem by all who knew him, hundreds attended his funeral, including African chiefs.