Memoirs of Maurice B. Tennent - 1929 - 'I had answered an advertisement by someone advertising for a Mr McIvor of SA for a job on a farm. ..... In due course McIvor arrived and we got on very well together ... managed the farm.'

Tennent Family memoirs - 'From time to time Mac would come over to the farm and collect Jean, Gillian and Marion and career off to Kericho in one of his cars. He was a terrible driver and cars came and went. Parts of the single track tarmac road to Kericho (that had now replaced the all-murram road) were raised a number of inches above the murram verge and drivers had to be careful when getting on and off the tarmac when meeting or overtaking other vehicles. But it was all the same to Mac who drove flat out, frequently on the wrong side, sometimes having to skirt past goats and cattle which had strayed onto the road, tearing his tyres as he went. He usually drove with one hand on the wheel, whilst beating a tune on the side of the vehicle with his other hand and singing such renderings as 'Polly Wolly Doodle all the Day' at the top of his voice. ....….

He was a great hunter and occasionally would take himself off for weeks on end down to the Mara Reserve and return to keep us enthralled with the tales he had to tell, especially of black-maned lions that he had encountered. Mac was also a great rugby fan and, periodically, slightly the worse for drink, would turn up at the farm after attending a match.

One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 383)