Wolseley-Lewis - married Joan on 30th November 1946 at Nairobi DC's Office. Joan's family were the Hoares of Stourhead, the bankers. On her mother's side were the Frobishers, a well-known name in Naval history, going back to Elizabethan times. Her Great Grandmother, Georgina Hoare, had an affair and produced an illegitimate son. Who the father was has been kept secret, but it was someone who could not, for whatever reason, acknowledge parenthood. Anyway she was thrown out of the family and subsequently got a job in Crewkerne. Here she met George Leyh from Spa in Belgium and married him and he took on her son, who later married and also had a son, George Leyh, who married Muriel Frobisher, Joan's mother. Her father became a Captain in the Royal Navy and was posted to Singapore after WW1, in which he had fought in the battle of Jutland.

Pre-war volunteer to the Kenya Regiment (KR 804).

Marlborough Coll: He arrived in Kenya on his 19th birthday and became a farm pupil. During the War (1939-45) he served with the King’s African Rifles (2/4 KAR) in the conquest of the Italians in Abysinnia, then in the Madagascar campaign, ending the War in Burma with the 14th Army, where he was mentioned in dispatches. Tragically his wife, Anne, whom he had married in 1940 and who was a highly qualified Nursing Sister was drowned when her ship was torpedoed en route to Ceylon. Arthur ended the War as a Major. After the War he returned to farming in Kenya and in 1946 married Joan, who survives him. Arthur retired from farming and had a spell as a Courier, guide and friend of rich tourists, before spending a few years as a Hunter at world-famous Treetops. 1953, during the Mau Mau Emergency, truck loads of British soldiers were entertained at their farm with home-made food and comforts until Mau Mau burnt the farm down when the Wolseley-Lewises were on their regular monthly shopping trip to the nearby town 25 miles away. He was the Executive Officer of St John Ambulance, during the first visit of Pope John Paul to Kenya. Finally, he retired to the Nairobi area, where he was much in demand as a talented artist of animals and a skillful repairer of broken china. Wosleley-Lewis [sic] was also a masterly bridge and snooker player. Although his final years were clouded by ill-health, he managed to write an idiosyncratic autobiography “Empire to Dust”. In his last year he appeared on British Television in the programme “Empire’s Children” with Lord Steel. He is survived by Joan Wolseley-Lewis and his step-daughter, Garland.