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Name: GRENFELL-HICKS, James Bracher
Birth Date: 2.9.1891 Deptford
Death Date: 9.3.1972 Lewisham
First Date: 1920
Profession: Police
Area: Nairobi, 1922 Kismayu, 1925 Nairobi
Married: In Chelsea 1937 Mary Henrietta Crouse Hutton née Mason b. 24 Nov 1901 Bickley, Kent, d. 28 Jan 1993 New Forest (prev. m. 1929 to Robert Cameron Hutton d. 1932)
Children: stepson David Cameron Hutton (5.3.1930-2002)
Book Reference: Police, Staff 39, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Colonial, Red 22, Dominion, Nicholls
War Service: Rhodesia Native Regt.
General Information:
Colonial - Rhodesian Police 1911-16; Lieut. Rhodesia Native Regt. 1916-19; Rhodesian Administration 1919-20; Asst. Supt. Kenya Police Nov 1920; Staff Officer 1923; Supt. 1926; Ag. Asst. Commissioner in 1934, 1935, 1936 and 1937; Ag. Dep. Commissioner 1938
Dominion - Superintendent of Police - 1930
Nicholls - Isiolo where the superintendent of police, J.B. Grenfell-Hicks, was a buffoon and source of joy to the little white community. To him the nearby Archer's Post was Poacher's Arse.
Police - 1926 - Promoted from Asst. Superintendent to Superintendent of Police. Superintendent of Police, Kenya in 1939, appointed 1926. Originally Asst. Supdt. 1920.
KAD 1922 Asst. Superintendent of Police, Kismayu