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Name: LENNOX-BROWNE, Otho FRGS
Nee: son of Dr. Peter Otho Watkin Browne of Hillfield, Alderley Edge, Cheshire
Birth Date: 10 Nov 1894 Alderly Edge, Cheshire
Death Date: 1979 Frampton-on-Severn, Gloucs
First Date: 1927
Profession: Farmer. Made first British Ascent of Mawenzi summit of Kilimanjaro, July 1927 with W.C. West & Miss Sheila Macdonald
Area: 'Dunan' Farm, Ainabkoi, 1923 S. Kinangop, Garage house became Brown Trout Inn
Married: 1. 9 Jan 1928 Eva Joan Dening b. 14 Nov 1896 St Thomas, Devon (later m. Siegrist Jugl); 2. In Nairobi 1945 Mrs Grace Elinor Mary Jennings née Warner b. 1908, d. 1977 New Zealand (later married Dr Kenneth Morris)
Children: Barrie (23 Mar 1934 Nyeri-11 Apr 1958 Kerugoya - shot himself on return from honeymoon, married to Philippa Llewellyn); Jessica Mary (Chiverton) (1945-1993)
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Who's Who, Hut, mini-SITREP XIV, Peerage, Eton, Barnes
War Service: 1914-19 Cheshire Regt. WW2 - Machine Gun Corps. Kenya Regt. - Major. Corps of Military Police - Lt.-Col.
School: Eton 1908-13 & Trinity College Cambridge
General Information:
Capt. At Kenya Regiment first annual camp 1938 - photo. One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 2).
Eton (1909) - Cotton business; served as Lieut. 7th TF Bn. Cheshire Regt., empld aj. MG Corps in Egypt, Gallipoli and Palestine in WW1 (Despatches)
Nanyuki Cemetery - Plot J11 - Barrie Lennox-Browne
Rosie Davis - Otho Lennox Browne and Joan's son Barrie was born in 1934, while they lived at the Brown Trout Inn on the Kinangop, then known as (I think) Ndoroto Guest House. Otho and Joan were divorced. She remarried to Siegrist Jugl, a Czech. They lived at Mbagathi outside Nairobi and had about 15 horses, a lion cub, a serval cat, a monkey, and 3 cheetahs. I lived with Joan and Siegrist when I went to the Adelphi Business College in 1949.
Otho became my stepfather when he married my mother, Grace Elinor Mary Jennings, in 1945 and they lived firstly at the Brown Trout Inn on the Kinangop, then farmed at Burnt Forest. Their last farm together was at Kirwitu, near Vipingo on the coast. They had a daughter Jessica Mary, born 12 May 1945.
My brother and I joined the family at Burnt Forest in October 1948, travelling up the Nile from Juba.
Tragically Barrie committed suicide in 1958, two weeks after his marriage. My loved sister Jessica died on the last day of 1993, from breast cancer. She married Peter Chiverton in Christchurch and they had two daughters, Joanna in 1970 and Mary in 1972.
Otho died in England in (I think) 1979. My mother in 1977 - she having married for a 3rd time to Dr. Ken Morris. They eventually emigrated to New Zealand after my husband, our daughter and son, and Jessica came here in 1963.
Otho was a lovely stepfather. He was in the first British party to climb Mawenzi on Kilimanjaro, but I'm not sure of the date.
Gazette 27 May 1958 son's probate
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