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Name: LAVERS, Leonard Evelyn Laurence Seymour
Birth Date: bapt. 21 Sep 1886 Mauritius
Death Date: 17 June 1952 Nairobi
First Date: 1925
Last Date: 1952
Profession: Asst. Accountant, PWD, Kenya in 1939, appointed 1937. Originally Clerk 1926
Area: Kisumu, Nyeri
Married: In Johannesburg 5 Jan 1918 Beatrice Stanley Lambe b. 1896, d. 11 Oct 1988 Auckland, New Zealand
Children: Leonard Anthony (16 July 1930 Johannesburg-5 Dec 2022 Belair, S. Australia); Douglas Arthur (1920); John Alexander (18 May 1922-24 July 2006 Worthing)
Book Reference: Staff 39, Red 31, EA & Rhodesia, Barnes
General Information:
East Africa & Rhodesia - 10/7/52 - Mr Leonard Lavers, who has died in Nairobi, was born in Ealing in 1891 [?], and first went to East Africa with the South African Forces in the 1914-18 war. He joined the Kenya Public Works Department in 1925, and retired in 1948 owing to ill health. He was a prominent Freemason and a keen golfer and tennis player. He leaves a widow and 3 sons.
Nairobi City Park cemetery - Leonard Evelyn Lavers, died 17 Jun 1952 aged 61