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Name: HUNTER, Ernest Villiers OBE (Dr.)

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Birth Date: 1878 Norwich

Death Date: 29 July 1950 Nairobi

First Date: 1921

Last Date: 1950

Profession: Church Missionary Society missionary doctor. Ran the 'Freda Carr' Hospital in Teso, Uganda started by Ernest Carr of Nairobi

Area: Teso, Uganda, 1940 Naivasha, Cedar Cottage Kinangop

Married: In Colombo, Ceylon 1902 Jeannie [?Janie] Ethel Banning Lover b. 1878 possibly Ceylon, d. 1950 Uganda

Children: John Villiers (1904 India-1949); Dorothy Ada (Holmes) (1908 Colombo, Ceylon-1986 Derbyshire); Emily Gwendoline (1910 Belgaum, India-1958)

Book Reference: Roome, Hut, EA & Rhodesia, Red 22, Foster, Barnes

War Service: RAMC

School: Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Barnet and the Ceylon Medical College

General Information:

East Africa & Rhodesia - 3/8/50 - Dr. E.V. Hunter, OBE, who joined the Church Missionary Society in 1921, has died suddenly in Nairobi. He served in Uganda, chiefly at Mengo Hospital, until 1943, when he became the mission's regional medical adviser for East Africa, living part of his time in Naivasha, Kenya, and part in Kampala. Dr. Hunter, who was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Barnet, and the Ceylon Medical College, first became a missionary in 1903 in India, where he worked until commissioned in the RAMC 12 years later. For a year after the 1914-18 war he served as a surgeon on a P&O Liner. He was awarded the OBE in 1943. Mrs Hunter, who was also a missionary, died last January.
Barnes - Nairobi City Park Cemetery - Ernest V. Hunter, died 29 Jul 1950 aged 73 
In 1919-20 he was surgeon on a P&O liner.

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