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Name: HARRISON, Ernest
Birth Date: 30 July 1886 Poynton, Cheshire
First Date: 1921
Profession: Deputy Director of Agriculture, Agricultural Dept.
Area: Nairobi
Married: Annie Gladys Anyan b. 1886 Withington, d. before 1925
Children: Thomas Brian (18 May 1913 Hilton, Natal, lived in Canada); Hedley Maurice (12 Aug 1914 Pietermaritzburg); Denis Goodwin (at Blundell's School 1930 b. 26 Mar 1917 Pietermaritzburg, d. 17 Jan 1944 on HMS Saker when in RNVR, buried in Woodlawn Cem., USA)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Blundell's Register, Red 22, CO, Dominion
School: Holmes Chapel, Cheshire; Edinburgh Univ., State College of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, USA. MSA, BSc (Agric) NDA, (Hons)
General Information:
Red 25 - formerly Principal, School of Agriculture, Cedara, Natal; Land Manager, Bailey Group, Johannesburg, S.A.
CO 533/371/3 - Confidential Reports 1927 - Dep. Director of Agriculture - It is considered he would make a good Director of Agriculture.
Dominion - Agricultural Department - Deputy Director of Agriculture - 1930
Red 25 - Member, Kenya Land Settlement Advisory Board. Vice Chairman, Civil Service Athletic Association, Nairobi
Was in Lima, Peru in 1944 when son killed (UK Commonwealth War Graves)