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Name: IRWIN, Robert Edward
Birth Date: 15.5.1899 Donnybrook, Dublin
Death Date: 11 May 1940 Mombasa
First Date: 1937
Last Date: 1940
Profession: Senior Asst. Auditor in 1939, appointed 1937. Colonial Audit Dept. 1925. Transferred from Gold Coast.
Area: Mombasa, Tanganyika
Married: In Dar es Salaam 1929 Esme Seagers-Upton b. 7 July 1910 Johannesburg, d. 5 July 1995 Pietermaritzburg (later m. Charles Nicholas Turpin, Hendrik Johannes Jacobus Steyn and Harry John Leslie Blow)
Children: Joy Elizabeth Arnold (16 Dec 1932 Rhodesia-2005); another
Book Reference: Staff 39, Colonial, Barnes
School: Christ's Hospital
General Information:
Colonial - Asst. Auditor Tanganyika Nov 1925; Asst. Auditor Gold Coast Dec 1928; Senior Asst. Auditor Kenya 1937
Mombasa Mbaraki cemetery - R. Edward Irwin, died 11 May 1940 age 40, European Hospital, Cerebral Malaria