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Name: BLACKWELL, Horace
Birth Date: 6 July 1893 Edmonton, Middlesex
Death Date: 19 Feb 1962 Ruaraka
First Date: 1925
Profession: Inspector, Kenya Police 1931; riding school proprietor 1954
Area: Eldoret, 1925 Nakuru, 1930 Nairobi
Married: 1. ?In Aston, Warwickshire Sarah M. Beale; 2. Wilhelmina 'Mina' Marc b. 1906 S. Africa, d. 2003 Bli Bli, Queensland, Australia
Children: William Robert McGrath (6 Oct 1930 Finsbury, d. 7 Mar 2018)
Book Reference: Habari 27, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Dominion, Uganda Staff, Gazette
General Information:
Red 22 - H. Blackwell, Kenya Police, Nairobi
Dominion - Assistant Inspector of Police - 1930
Uganda Staff 1938 - Asst. Inspector, Kampala, transferred from Kenya
Habari 27 - Kenya Police Review 1931 - "Inspector H. Blackwell called here on his way to Eldoret off leave. Mrs Blackwell and their small son were with him." - Presumably this is the first mention in print of our William (and his mother, Mina) now [1994] in sunny Queensland
Gazette - 5/4/1922 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Police Constable - 22/3/1922 - H. Blackwell
Gazette 6 Mar 1962 probate
Langata cemetery, Nairobi in / memory / of / H Blackwell / born 1895 / died 1962 / R.I.P