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Name: RYAN, James Paul 'Jim'
Nee: cousin of Christopher Anthony Ryan
Birth Date: 1914 Dublin
Death Date: 1982 buried in Ireland
First Date: 1937
Profession: Originally arrived as a pupil on Tony Ryan's farm at Molo. Later bought farm next to Tony and Molly.
Area: Molo, Hut 1932 Mgr Trench MFH, 'Ballyvistea' Molo
Married: 1939 Elizabeth 'Liz' 'Betsy' Millington b. 1918 Nairobi, d. 1986 Rosslare, Wexford, Ireland (dau of Edward Noel Millington, sister of Helen Margaret Millington (Start)
Children: W. J. 'Pip' (1940); Mark; 3 other sons and a daughter Almary (Crowther)
Book Reference: Over my Shoulder, Sitrep 2, Frampton, Hut, Year Book, Stud, Thady Ryan, Pip Ryan
General Information:
Year Book - 1953 - The Molo Hunt may be said to be the senior hunt of the Colony and kennels some 25 couple of hounds. Hunting one day a week and an occasional bye-day, the Molo Hunt took 22 reedbuck during the season of 1952 and this is probably a record. The Master, Mr J.P. Ryan, whose uncle and cousin are Joint-Masters of the "Black and Tans" (Scarteen) in Tipperary, is a great hand at the game and was one time Master of the Ampleforth College Beagles. The present healthy state of the Molo Hunt is to a great extent due to Mr Ryan though his predecessors, Mr 'Gerry' Alexander and Mr E.P. Danby, have assuredly left their mark upon a pack which has, since its foundation in 1924, built up a tradition of its own.
EA Stud Book 1954 - Sheep - Corriedales - J.P. Ryan, Molo
Pip Ryan - My father came out to Kenya to work for an Irish man called Walter Trench. He bought the farm at Molo and married my mother in 1939
Frampton - Master of the Molo hounds in the 1950s
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 268). No birthdate in KR records.