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Name: STONE, Harold Ramsay Hawkins

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Nee: 2nd son of Edward Herbert Stone

Birth Date: 10 May 1890 Simla, India

Death Date: 28 Nov 1955 Nairobi

First Date: 1919

Last Date: 1955

Profession: Manager Visitors' Information Bureau, EA Tourist Travel Ass., Sec. EA Professional Hunters' Ass.

Area: Nairobi, 1922 Kaimosi, 1925 Badbury Farm, Kaimosi

Married: 1922 Muriel Mary Esdale-Cooper (Hawkins)

Children: one stepson; one stepdau.

Book Reference: Who's Who, KAD, Red 25, Hut, EA & Rhodesia, Red 22, Barnes, Fox Davies

War Service: 16th Lancers 1909-11, BSAP 1911-19, RE 1939-45

School: Eastman's, Germany; Clifton

General Information:

East Africa & Rhodesia - 15/12/55 - Captain Harold Ramsay Hawkins Stone, who died in Kenya a few days ago, had for some years managed the information bureau of the East Africa Tourist Travel Association in Hardinge Street, Nairobi, and had latterly become secretary of the East African Professional Hunters' Association. Born in Simla, India, in 1890, he was educated at Eastman's Royal Naval Academy, in Germany, and at Clifton, and then joined the 16th Lancers as a private in 1907. Four years later he went to Rhodesia and enlisted in the British South Africa Police as a trooper. He served with General Northey's column in German East Africa in the 1914-18 war, and on demobilisation began coffee planting in Uganda.
He became a coffee officer in the Department of Agriculture of Tanganyika in 1927, turned to water conservation work two years later, and in 1929 went to Kenya as a coffee inspector. He was engaged in prospecting and mining in the Kakamega area of that Colony for several years during the depression of the thirties, and in 1938 went back to Southern Rhodesia and joined the staff of the Wanderer mine. He joined up again as soon as war broke out in 1939, and for most of the period of hostilities undertook movement control duties as a captain in the Royal Engineers.
Stone, a most likeable and kindly man, had a gift for friendship, a deep love of wild life, an excellent memory, and a host of friends in East Africa and Southern Rhodesia. Again and again he took on useful social jobs which others would not tackle, and always brought to them a determination  to give of his best. His passing will be widely mourned.
Barnes - Nairobi City Park Cemetery - Harold Ramsay Hawkins Stone, died 28 Nov 1955 aged 65
KAD 1922 - Committee Member - Kaimosi Farmers' and Planters' Assoc.
Blue Book 1932 Plant Inspector, Agric. Dept. appt 6.8.1929

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