Elephant People - Another important influence in Woodley's early development was an entirely different character from the ascetic and uncompromising Alan Black. This was Lt. Col. Charles (Tiger) Marriott. Woodley was 17, in his final year at the P.O.Wales School ........ he was on safari with a relative, a white hunter named Reggie Destro ...... Marriott was commandant of a Polish refugee camp at Makindu. ..…..

Marriott was one of those totally unexpected, offbeat characters that Africa seems to attract. Tall, hugely built, immensely powerful, florid, and violent-looking, he is remembered as standing at the door of the New Stanley Hotel, wearing shorts like a pair of skirts, with his hands in his pockets scratching himself, and glowering at the world going by. An Indian Cavalry officer of the 14th Murray's Jat Lancers, prematurely retired during the drastic retrenchment in the military establishment in India in the early 1930s, he had settled in the southern highlands of Tanganyika to a fairly comfortable life as a 'bush squire', and devoted himself to the pursuit of the 'Big Five'. He is mentioned in Negley Farson's book, Behind God's Back, in which the author describes Marriott's astonishing array of sporting rifles and guns laid out side by side on a bed in the principal bedroom of his house.

Barnes - Nairobi City Park Cemetery - Charles F. Marriott, died 1 Oct 1949 aged 58