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Name: LUXFORD, Cyril (Major)

Birth Date: 28 Dec 1887 Stevenage

Death Date: 1973 Uckfield, Sussex, buried 15 Nov.

First Date: 1922

Profession: Soldier/settler

Area: Farm 741, 'Ol Leshau', Rumuruti. Red 25 - Thomson's Falls Dairy, Hut: Farm 279 Gilgil

Married: In London 1916 Mary Beatrice Anderson b. 13 Aug 1894 Littleover, Derbyshire, , d. 16 Oct 1975 West Crowborough, Sussex

Children: None

Book Reference: Golf, Mrs Mary Hoey, Hoey, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Pioneers, SS, A.G.D. White

General Information:

They were educated people.
Founder member of Thomson's Falls Golf Club in 1936. Captain of Thomson's Falls Golf Club in 1938.
Hut - injured by rhino 1939
Red 22 - Honorary Permit Issuer - Jeshan, Rumuruti
Red 22 - President, Laikipia Farmers' Association
Pioneers - Presided over the first meeting of Laikipia Club in 1925
Pioneers - Thomson's Falls - The first building here was put up in the early 1920s for the Narok Angling Club, founded by Major Cyril Luxford and Captain L.F. King. The Narok, Equator and Pesi Rivers were stocked with trout.
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Capt. C. Luxford, Isthmian Club, 105 Piccadilly, W - Farm 729
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - 2/Lieut I. Luxford, c/o Isthmian Club, 105 Piccadilly, W1 - Farm 738 ??
A.G.D. White - Major Luxford …a well-known identity and one-time President of the Laikipia Farmers' Association
Gazette 5/4/2938 - Honorary Game Warden
KAD 1922 - President - Laikipia Farmers' Association.
Red 25 - Honorary Permit Issuer
Gazette - 26/9/1923 - Voters Register - Kenya Province - Cyril Luxford, Farmer PO Rumuruti
Gazette - 5/8/1925 - Voters Register - Kenya Province - Mary Luxford, PO Rumuruti
His wife was lady captain, Thomson's Falls Golf Club
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Aberdare Voters List

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