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Name: GROGAN, Quentin Oliver
Nee: brother of Ewart Grogan
Birth Date: 12.9.1883 Kingsclere, Hants.
Death Date: 19.3.1962 Kromkloof, Grabouw, Cape Province, S. Africa
First Date: 1904
Profession: Started Turi butchery. For some years at Nanyuki, later moved to SA. Mansfield Markham bought land from him. He was a butcher and a keen horticulturist.
Area: Nanyuki, KAD 1922 - Turi, 1925 Molo, Kobe Uganda
Married: Irene Sanderson b. 30 Nov 1881 Newcastle upon Tyne, d. 4 Aug 1962 Wynberg, S. Africa
Children: Diana (1920)
Book Reference: Gillett, Markham, Adventurers, Breath, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Drumkey, Red 22, Gazette, Harmony, Medals, North, EAHB 1907, Chandler, Rift Valley
War Service: Midshipman in Royal Navy enrolled 15 Sep 1898; E Af units in World War 1
General Information:
Adventurers - teamed up with the Craven brothers and went on many hunting trips with them - round Mt. Elgon and to the Lado Enclave and the Congo. ........... he is now comfortably settled at Turi, on the Uganda Railway. [1928]
Breath - ... F.G. ('Deaf') Banks and Quentin O. Grogan, could both claim to share a unique distinction - having ridden for a short time on the back of a part-grown square-lipped rhinoceros. I know of no other similar episodes. For some years they were members of the small and select band of ivory poachers in the Belgian Lado Enclave on the West bank of the Nile. Both set out to capture a youngster of the species. 'Deaf' Banks rode his calf for a short distance before being thrown off, and the post-captured small beast escaped from him.
Quentin Grogan had been commissioned to capture two calves of this species for the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Although he saw literally dozens of them in the Lado Enclave, his enterprise was not successful. This was not through lack of effort on his part. Once only did he come upon a calf small enough to be manageable ....... (story pp. 57 on)
Gazette - 4/11/1914 - Appt. - East Africa Supply Corps - To be Lieutenant - Q.O. Grogan
Gazette - 4/11/1914 - Appt. - Permitted to resign his appointment - EASC - Lieutenant Q.O. Grogan to date 1st December 1914
Member of Lodge Harmony - Initiated 6/1/08, age 25, Settler, Nairobi
Medals - East Africa Army Service Corps - Lieutenant
Rift Valley - Member of the Rift Valley Sports Club - Jan 1929 - Elected - 13 May 1917 - Q.O. Grogan
Gazette - 3/12/1919 - Register of Voters - Rift Valley Area - Q.O. Grogan - Farmer - Molo and Irene Grogan - Married - Molo and Mrs Grogan - Turi ?
Red 25 - Chairman, Molo Settlers' Association.
Hut - Started Turi Butchery
1939 England and Wales Register living in Tonbridge with wife
Birth index has Irene born in 1880, but 1939 register and death cert have 1881
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