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Name: GLEDHILL, Henry
Birth Date: 29 June 1903 Pontefract, Yorkshire
Death Date: 8 Dec 1963 Busselton, W. Australia
First Date: 1928
Last Date: 1964
Profession: Asst. Master European Primary Educ. in 1939, appointed 1928
Area: Nairobi, Nakuru, Eldoret, Kitale, Njoro, Mombasa
Married: In Nairobi 19 Dec 1930 Gwyneth Mary McGaffin b. 6 Oct 1906 Mossel Bay, S. Africa, d. 22 Feb 1995 Perth, W. Australia (also a teacher)
Children: Sally (1932); Janet (1934); Nancy; Helen; John
Book Reference: Staff 39, EAWL, Red 31, Hut, Colonial, Dominion
School: King's School Pontefract and Leeds University; BSc. (Leeds)
General Information:
He was latterly Headmaster at Nakuru and before that head at Eldoret, Kitale and Njoro and also at the Allidina Visram High School (Asian), Mombasa. Farmed on N. Kinangop through the 50s and Mau Mau - left Kenya in 1964 [must have been earlier] for Western Australia to join and be joined by Janet, Nancy, Helen and John. ......... Left England in the depression for a Rhodesian School - whilst on holiday in Kenya decided to stay and taught in Nairobi where he met my mother, also a teacher - born and brought up in S. Africa - sister-in-law of Wilfred Hops, a Nairobi dentist. Source - Sally Dymott
Dominion - Education Department - Assistant Master - 1930