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Name: CARVER, Humphrey Robertson 'John'
Birth Date: 3 Aug 1903 Alderley Edge, Cheshire
Death Date: 19 Feb 1977 Mombasa
First Date: 1924
Profession: DO 1926
Area: Kisii, Laikipia, 1930 Kerugoya, Sagana, 1932 Kisumu, 1930 Eserian, 1931 Rumuruti, Tambach
Married: In Lymington 1929 Herrick Anne Perkins b. 23 July 1908 Lymington, d. Cheltenham 1997
Children: Gillian Ursula (1930); Russell (5 Dec 1934 Kisii); John
Book Reference: Staff 39, RH, Tignor, Red 31, Hut, Baptism, Hale, Dominion, Foster, Askwith 1
School: MA (Cantab) (Rowing Blue)
General Information:
Willie Hale - a rowing blue
Dominion - District Officer - 1930
Askwith 1 - Humphrey Carver who rowed for Cambridge in 1925 was posted there [Malindi] as district commissioner. He, his 3 sons and I used to bathe regularly together in the evenings. One of these was Russell who in due course married our daughter Jocelyn. Their son John distinguished himself by stroking the Eton crew to victory in the Ladies Plate, representing Cambridge in the Goldie crew of 1995, and competing in a number of international regattas, finally being elected President of the CUBC in 1995. All this in spite of contracting diabetes at an early age. Russell apart from rowing for Cambridge in 1958 sculled for England in the Commonwealth Games that year.
RH s.1277 has H. Carver as DC/ADC at Kisii in 1924?
Tignor - DC Laikipia in 1931
Gazette - 13/10/1926 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Cadet, Administration - H.R. Carver
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Coast Voters list has Humphrey Roberton Carver, Kilifi
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Uasin Gishu Voters Roll expunged, has Herrick Anne as wife. He is with Anne in Coast Voters roll 1941 - Gazette 31 Dec 1941
FindaGrave Humphrey Robertson Carver BIRTH 3 Aug 1903 Alderley Edge, Cheshire East Unitary Authority, Cheshire, England DEATH 19 Feb 1977 (aged 73) Mombasa, Kenya BURIAL Kisauni Cemetery Mombasa