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Name: CONDUITT, Walter Arnold 'WAC' (Major)

Nee: son of Henry Walter Conduitt

Birth Date: 14 Sep 1877 Allahabad

Death Date: 10 Mar 1957 Nakuru, Kenya

First Date: 1922

Last Date: 1957

Profession: Soldier settler

Area: 'Equator Farm', Njoro, 1943 Nakuru, 1920 Rumuruti Soldier Settler

Married: 1. In Seoni, Bengal 3 Feb 1903 Jane Davidson Crawford b. 1866 Edinburgh, d. 28 Feb 1915 Middlesex; 2. In London 16 Aug 1916 Lady Nellie Viola Castalia Florence Chetwynd-Talbot b. 3 July 1885 Bromley, Kent, d. 18 July 1951 Nairobi (dau. of Earl of Shrewsbury and prev. m. to Reginald Edward Gore 1880-1963)

Book Reference: Nellie, Golf, Markham, Verandah, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, EA & Rhodesia, Debrett, Red 22, Stud, Racing, Bur, SS, Rift Valley, Barnes

War Service: London Regt.

General Information:

East Africa & Rhodesia - 4/4/57 - Major Walter Arnold Conduitt, who has died in Kenya, served in the South African War and in the 1914-18 war in the 5th Battalion the London Regiment and the Remount Service. In 1916 he married Lady Viola Florence, daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury; she died in 1951. Major Conduitt is survived by his second wife. [?]
Red 22 - Justice of the Peace - Nakuru
EA Stud Book 1954 - Thoroughbred Stallions - The Lady Viola Conduitt, Baruku, Nakuru
EA Stud Book 1954 - Cattle - Guernseys - Major W.A. Conduitt, Nakuru
Racing - Owner of 'Calm Waters' - 1930 - Lady Viola Conduitt
Racing - Owner of 'George' - 1930 - Lady Viola Conduitt
Racing - Owner of 'Greeko' - 1930
Racing - Owner of 'Masai' - 1929 - Lady Viola Conduitt
Nairobi City Park Burial Register - Viola Lady Conduitt, age 66, died 18/7/51
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Capt. W.A. Conduitt, Alton Towers, Stoke-on-Trent - Farm 554
Rift Valley - Member of the Rift Valley Sports Club - Jan 1929 - Elected - 15 May 1928 - Maj. W.A. Conduit
Gazette 5/4/2938 - Honorary Game Warden
Barnes - Nakuru North Cemetery - Walter Arnold Conduitt, died 10/3/1957
Nellie - (1938) - Mention of the Conduitts arriving to visit and staying for drinks 'they always do'. Well known golfer at Njoro in 20's. Racehorse trainer.
KAD 1922 - Committee Member, Njoro European Association
Agnes Shaw: They kept a large stable where polo ponies were trained for this purpose they employed an Indian ex- cavalry man from the viceroy’s bodyguard named Shere Khan.  There were over 70 horses in a stable and Conduitt rode around the farm on a large grey gelding named Castor; his wife rode a mare called My Dear.  Both horses were well known on the polo field.  He supervised the building of a large cedar house never thinking that one day after it was sold it would become a preparatory boarding school.  The farm was under a large acreage of flax, 600 acres of wattle, and many hundred acres of maize, and also had a small planted acreage of coffee.  To decorticate the flax they had a scotching mill and many were the prizes won by their flax exhibits at the Nakuru agricultural shows.

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