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Name: BENNITT, Ernest William

Birth Date: 3 Sep 1881 Pietermaritzburg

Death Date: 7 Mar 1950 Kloof, Natal

First Date: 1922

Profession: Chartered accountant; Kenya Farmers' Association - Secretary of the KFA in 1932 Took over as managing director on the resignation of Col. Griffiths in 1942-48. Forced to resign through ill health in 1947

Area: Nakuru, 1922 Kericho, Kijabe

Married: 1. In Pietermaritzburg 6 Feb 1905 Elizabeth Jane Barron b. 1883, d. 19 Aug 1906 Pietermaritzburg, gastroenteritis; 2. In Witwatersrand 22 Apr 1911 Vera Charlotte Anne Caroline Raaff b. 26 Sep 1884 Orange Free State, d. 19 Mar 1974 Cape Town; 3. Mona Anne Cranston

Children: 2. Clarice Ruth; Avis Shirley Joan (21 May 1913 East London, S. Africa-28 Mar 2004 Fish Hoek, South Africa); 3. Elizabeth Wynne (5Jan 1950 Kloof)

Book Reference: KFA, Golf, KAD, Hut, Red 31, Hut, Red 22

General Information:

Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Voters List Rift Valley Ernest William Bennitt [sic] as chartered secretary, Nakuru
Red 22 has E.W. Bennitt, Dar es Salaam
Captain of Nakuru Golf Club in 1936
Gazette 30 Jan 1951 probate

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