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Name: VAN SOMEREN, Vernon Donald MBE
Nee: son of Robert Abraham Logan Van Someren
Birth Date: 10 June 1915 Jinja
Death Date: Jinja 1961/2
First Date: 1939
Profession: Colonial Fishery Officer. Ornithologist
Area: Nyeri
Married: Barbara Anne Mackay b. 3 June 1920 Stockport
Children: Alastair Andrew Logan (25.7.1948); Robert Nial Melville (16.12.1951); Mairen Juliana (16.6.1953)
Author: 'A Bird Watcher in Kenya', 1958
Book Reference: A Bird Watcher in Kenya
School: PHD, ARPS; Edin Univ.; London Univ.
General Information:
Father went to Uganda in 1905. Lived at Nyeri.
Director of EA Fishery Organisation in Uganda
KR 946. No birthdate in KR records
Allfree in Bluff: Departmental Senior Fisheries Scientist. Exceptionally clever man who produced most valuable results with the minimum of facilities in our small research station near Nyeri and Mount Kenya; a land of clear, fast-running streams. He had a gift for training Africans. His research was mainly on trout.