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Name: GRANT, Gregor James MC

Nee: son of John Peter Grant, 13th of Rothiemurchus

Birth Date: 11 Apr 1902 Inverness

Death Date: 13 June 1998 Rosemarkie, Scotland

First Date: 1925

Profession: Farmer, with Diploma of Agriculture and Estate Management, Oxford 1923

Area: Kericho, 1926 Mau Forest, 1944 Doune Molo, 1975 Gogar Farm Rongai

Married: In Nakuru 19 Nov 1936 Elizabeth Arbuthnot 'Bizzie' Dudgeon b. 4.4.1915 Muthaiga, d. 15.12.2002 Fortrose, Ross-shire (dau of Arthur Frank Dudgeon)

Children: James MacAlpine Gregor (1936); Elspeth Jean (1940); Victoria Mary (1941); Fiona Marjorie (Blackwood) (1943); Andrew Arthur Gregor (1948); Julia Emily (1950); Hamish Duncan Gregor (1958)

Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, mini-SITREP XIV, XIII, O&C, Peerage, Burke

War Service: served in WW2, Capt. KAR

School: Glenaslmond and Trinity College, Oxford 1921-23

General Information:

Hut has Gregor Grant as Pupil at Songonyet Estate, Fort Ternan in 1925.
mini-SITREP XIV - Commissioned in Kenya Regt. In 1939
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 292).

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