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Name: LE RICHE, Philip Henry 'Tim'
Birth Date: 22 Nov 1905 Worthing
Death Date: 1970 Aberdeen
First Date: 1931
Profession: Instructor, African, Educ. Dept in 1939, appointed 1931. Originally Temp. Educ. Officer 1931
Area: Kabete
Married: In Salisbury, S. Rhodesia 3 Oct 1928 Phyllis Elsie Greathead b. 1906 Germiston, Transvaal, d. 28.11.1937 Nairobi; 2. In Nakuru 13 Aug 1940 Margaret Nessie Mackie b. 18 Aug 1919 Slamanan, Stirling, d. 17 Mar 2019 Lake Joondalup, Wanneroo, W. Australia (dau of Archibald Mackie)
Children: Phillip David (1932), Phyllis Diana Anne (1937), another son, another dau
Book Reference: Staff 39, Ken Greathead, Gazette
General Information:
Ken Greathead - Tim Le Riche at some stage in the 1930s was Inspector of African Schools, stationed at Kabete
Gazette - Voters List 1936 - Philip Henry Le Riche, Assistant Master, Jeanes School, Kabete and Phyllis Elise Le Riche, Jeanes School, Kabete
Tim le Riche and his brother Frank had a tobacco farm in Rhodesia, which they sold in 1930. Frank returned to England. Tim and his wife Phyllis went to Kenya to join her brother Ken. Tim taught at Nakuru Primary School for some years, then took long leave and went to England for further study. When he returned to Kenya he became Inspector of African Schools.