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Name: DOONER, Hugh Brandon DSO, MC (Major)
Nee: son of Henrietta Brandon Dooner
Birth Date: 10.9.1876 Albury, NSW, Australia
Death Date: 23.3.1935 Nairobi
Nationality: Australian
First Date: 1900 - settled soon after SA War
Last Date: 1935
Profession: First tried ostrich farming in the Kedong Valley. After WW1 was, for a time, Political Officer in Tanganyika. After marriage he took up land in the Sotik district of Kenya where, helped by his wife, he grew coffee, raised cattle
Area: 'Kapsimba' Coffee Plantations, Sotik, Kedong Valley, Tanganyika, Kericho Hut - BEADOC, 1909 Escarpment
Married: In Nairobi 15 Sep 1923 Elizabeth Sheila Patricia Gunningham b. 16 Sep 1901 Johannesburg, d. 18 Apr 1980 Durban (she late m. Robert Morrison Pakenham-Walsh 1886-1951)
Children: Sheila Grace (Mulligan) (25 Nov 1924 Nairobi-1988); Michael Brandon (2 July 1927 Sotik-1993)
Book Reference: Gillett, HBEA, Bovill, Debrett, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, North, Curtis, Drumkey, Red 22, Land, Advertiser, AJ, Gazette, Barnes, Barnes, DSO, Medals, EAHB 1907, Leader14, Red Book 1912
War Service: SA war with Australians, WW1 distinguished himself in the Intelligence section
General Information:
He earned the high esteem of all his neighbours. A Justice of the Peace for Sotik.
Bovill - Suggested the growing of passion fruit in 1933
Debrett - Capt. Gen. List and in E. Africa Intelligence Dept.; S. Africa 1900-02; European War 1914-18, becoming a Gen. Staff Officer EA Expeditionary Force (despatches 4 times, MC, DSO)
Curtis - p. 97 - 'Kipkebe' by Agnes Shaw. ' ....... Major Dooner, one of Sotik's older settlers and a veteran of the EA Campaign in WW1 ....….
Drumkey 1909 - Cattle Brand - V1M - Kedong via Escarpment
Land - 1907 - H.B. Dooner - Fibre, 50 sq. miles, Darajani River, 1-12-05, Registered 7-3-07
Land - 1907 - H.B. Dooner - Grazing, 5000 acres, Kedong Valley, 5-6-05, Registered 26-9-07
Land - 1907 - H.B. Dooner - Building, 1 acre, Nakuru Township, 6-6-05, Registered 17-10-07
Advertiser - Friday April 30, 1909 - Court Case - E. De La Rue v H.B. Dooner - This case had been in litigation for a period of about two years. The plaintiff had leased a piece of ground at Nakuru from the defendant with certain conditions as to payment of the rental. The trouble arose from the Land Office having accepted payment of this rental from the Plaintiff and the Defendant. Adjustment was finally made out of Court.
Land - 1906 - H.B. Dooner - Business, 5,000 sq.ft. - Nairobi Township - 25 years lease from 1/3/1906 - Registered 25/4/1906
Land - 1906 - H.B. Dooner - Building, 1 acre - Nakuru Township - 25 years' lease from 1/9/1905 - Registered 6/4/1906
Agricultural Journal 1908 - Brands allotted and registered - H.B. Dooner, Kedong, via Escarpment - Naivasha V1M
Gazette - 10/6/14 - Partnership between Hugh Brandon Dooner, Philip Guy and Arthur Rainbow as Ostrich farmers and traders dissolved.
Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery - Hugh Brandon Dooner, British, age 51, died 23/3/35
Medals - East African Intelligence Department - Agent
EAHB 1907 - Nairobi (Ngongo Road)
Red Book 1912 - H.B. Dooner - Kyambu and Nairobi
Gazette - 20/7/1921 - Register of Voters - Lake Area - Capt. Hugh Brandon Dooner - Planter, Farm 945 - Sotik
Gazette - 4/7/1917 - Birthday Honours - MC - Lieut. H B Dooner, Intelligence Dept.
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