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Name: BLACKSHIRE, Ralph Albert
Birth Date: 3 Jan 1888 Lambeth, bapt 25 Nov 1894
Death Date: 17 Oct 1970 Malaga, Spain
First Date: 1930
Profession: Chief Officer, Prisons Dept., Kenya in 1939, appointed 1932. Originally Clerk, PWD 1930
Area: Nakuru
Married: 1. In Nairobi 28 Feb 1928 Amelia Heale MBE d. 22 Aug 1951 Three Anchor Bay, Western Cape (previously m. William Fotheringham d. 1908 and Alfred Fairweather d. 1922); 2. In Somerset West, S. Africa 9 Jan 1957 Clara Amelia Blewitt b. 12 July 1887 Bury St Edmunds
Book Reference: Staff 39, Red 31
General Information:
Gazette - Voters List 1936 - Ralph Albert Blackshire, Chief Officer, HM Prison Service, Box 61, Nbi and Amelia Blackshire, Married woman, Box 61, Nbi