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Name: BLANCKE, H. C.
First Date: 1907
Profession: Swiss Hotel expert brought out as Manager of the Norfolk Hotel. A capable and likeable man, soon gaining wide popularity.. The Hotel improved vastly under his excellent management. Story of revelry (p.319)
Area: Nairobi
Book Reference: Cuckoo, Law, Nicholls
General Information:
Nicholls - In 1906 the Norfolk was taken over by the capable and likeable H.C. Blancke, a Swiss hotel expert brought out as manager, who left it in 1913 to start a leather factory. In those years it paid off its mortgage overdraft and made a clear profit of £20,000.
See also Charles A. Blanke (?same person)