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Name: MILLAR, Alleyn John 'Jack'
Birth Date: 15 May 1894
Death Date: 15 Jan 1964 Nairobi
First Date: 1922
Profession: Phoenix Insurance business, built the shops at Karen with Remi Martin
Area: Box 178, Nairobi, 1930 Box 129, Nairobi, Hut 1925 Gilgil
Married: 1. ? 2. ? 3. Nancy Vera Shaw b. 12 Jan 1915 - a great golfer, sister of Jim C. Shaw, dau of John Clifton Shaw
Children: Peter Alleyn Douglas (1921)
Book Reference: Travel, Mrs R. Robbins, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Karen 50, Hut, Red 22, CO, Settlement
General Information:
Barnes Langata cem Nbi - in loving memory / of / "Jack" / A J Millar / born 15.5.1894 / died 15.1.1964
Karen 50 - Captain of Karen 1941
Red 22 - Member, Nairobi Municipal Council
CO 533/576 - Mentioned in trial of L.W. Churcher for murder of Mrs Sim in 1925 - Alleyn John Millar - normally lived in Nairobi. Visiting the Sims at the time of the murder
Settlement - 1945 - Advert - Insurance - A.J. Millar - 27 years Insurance experience in Eastern Africa
Red 25 - Vice-President, Parklands Sports Club.
Red 31 - Tyson Bros. Ltd.
Karen 50 - One of the original members of Karen Club in 1937 (Mr & Mrs). President 1955
Old Africa - 19-9-16 - JC Shaw did indeed have two children (Nancy and Jim), sadly now both deceased (I have never heard of another sister). Nancy died a few years ago and Jim died on 18th June 2014, aged 92. Jim was happily married to his lovely wife Jill (from Birkenhead), who died in 2012.
They are survived by their own two children (David (68 I think) and Fiona (66 I think). Both David and Fiona still live in Karen – and Fiona (married to Rob de Boer) is still in the five-acre Karen plot that Jim bought at the end of the war. Both have children who were at school in Nairobi, so a true Kenya family / dynasty. Jim was educated at the Prince of Wales School (now Nairobi School). He was a great friend of my own father John McKellar and, as early air traffic controllers, they were instrumental in the building of the original air traffic control centre at Wilson Airport. Jim was a wonderful, gentle man and played golf at Karen Country Club for most of his life in Nairobi. He taught me to play, when my school (Duke of York) built a golf course in the school grounds (1964, I believe). Jim was also a Freemason and attended Lodge meetings regularly. He was a good rugby player – Nondies, I think. Jim’s sister Nancy was married to AJ Miller (who ran Phoenix Insurance, I believe). As a result, Jim worked for many years in the insurance business in Nairobi.
Gazette - Voters List 1936 - Alleyn John Millar, Manager, Masara Rd.
Gazette 28 Jan 1964 probate
Travel - November 2002 - Happy Valley article by Juliet Barnes - …… the falling down home that once belonged to Mary Miller, who a neighbour called the 'merry widow', claiming that after she died lorry loads of champagne bottles were taken away from her house. ……… the Millers who had, 'a beautiful house and garden and a British nanny'.