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Name: LOCKWOOD, Charles Agnew
Birth Date: 18 Jan 1910 Southwell, Notts.
Death Date: 13 Mar 1998 Punta del Este, Maldonado, Uruguay
First Date: 1931
Profession: Miller, company director
Area: Njoro, Eldoret
Married: In Buenos Aires 24 Oct 1940 Mabel Magarita Roberts b. 26 June 1918 Buenos Aires
Children: Juana Isabel (5 Dec 1944); Clara Eva (1947); Teresa Anne (1951); another dau.
Book Reference: KFA
General Information:
KFA - Engaged as a trained miller by Unga Ltd. to take charge of the technical side of the mill. In 1934 became the miller at Unga's new plant at Eldoret
Went to Argentina, kidnapped outside Buenos Aires by armed men in ambush after living in Argentina for 38 years, held for 50 days (ransom of 1 mill US dollars demanded ?paid).
BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 31 (Reuters)—A British-born executive, kidnapped a month ago by leftist guerrillas, was rescued today by policemen who shot four of his captors to death.The executive, Charles Agnew Lockwood, 66 years old, escaped unhurt when police raided a house in the Buenos Aires province district of Pilar and exchanged fire with its occupants, members of the People's Revolutionary Army, a Marxist guerrilla group. Mr. Lockwood, a director of several companies, including Acrow Steel of Britain and the Argentine-based Roberts Finance Company, was the first businessman here to be kidnapped twice. He was held for 54 days in 1973 by the same guerrilla band, which released him after reportedly collecting a ransom of $1 million.He was abducted again on July 31 as he was being driven to work. The guerrillas shot and wounded his two bodyguards.
BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 31 (Reuters)—A British-born executive, kidnapped a month ago by leftist guerrillas, was rescued today by policemen who shot four of his captors to death.The executive, Charles Agnew Lockwood, 66 years old, escaped unhurt when police raided a house in the Buenos Aires province district of Pilar and exchanged fire with its occupants, members of the People's Revolutionary Army, a Marxist guerrilla group. Mr. Lockwood, a director of several companies, including Acrow Steel of Britain and the Argentine-based Roberts Finance Company, was the first businessman here to be kidnapped twice. He was held for 54 days in 1973 by the same guerrilla band, which released him after reportedly collecting a ransom of $1 million.He was abducted again on July 31 as he was being driven to work. The guerrillas shot and wounded his two bodyguards.