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Name: McENTEE, Peter Donovan CMG, OBE

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Birth Date: 27 June 1920 Bournemouth

Death Date: 30 July 2002 Canterbury, Kent

First Date: 1920

Profession: Dist. Commissioner; retired as Principal of Kenya Institute of Administration

Area: 1956-59 DC Kisumu, Box 312 Nairobi

Married: In Nairobi 10 Dec 1945 Mary Elizabeth Sherwood b. 3 Dec 1922, d. 2005 Kent

Children: 2 dau C.A. (1948) and B.S. (1951)

Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Hut, Colonial, Pembroke, OP, Staff 53

War Service: WW2 KAR (Major)

School: Pembroke House Prep School, Kenya, Haileybury College

General Information:

OP - Issue 84, October 2002 - Obituary - P.D. McEntee CMG, OBE
Who's Who - HM Diplomatic Service; Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Belize 1976-80. HM Overseas Civil Service 1946-63; Dist. Commissioner; retired as Principal of Kenya Inst. Of Administration; First Secretary, Commonwealth Relations Office 1963; Lagos 1964-67; Commonwealth Office 1967-72; Consul-Gen. Karachi 1972-75. Recreations: music, natural history, golf
Staff 53 - Admin Cadet 5-6-1946
Colonial - DO Kenya 1946; Senior DC (African Cts. Offr.) 1960-63.
Pembroke No. 86, 1930, Cianda Estate, Kiambu
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 424). When he enlisted (1938( he was accountant's articled clerk (KR records).
His memoir of his life is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford

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