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Name: LEAN, Alan Ivan DSO (Lieut.-Col.)
Birth Date: 11.12.1872 Bath
Death Date: 19.2.1949 Nairobi
First Date: 1922
Last Date: 1949
Profession: Estate owner
Area: Lake Solai Estate, Nakuru, 1949 Limuru, 1910 Leggagor Estate
Married: 1. In Thanet 1896 Maud Platt b. 14 Dec 1873 Birmingham (div. 1907); 2. In Aston, Warks. 1909 Violet Chatwin b. 1886 Birmingham, d. 14 Dec 1959 Limuru
Children: 1. Joan (Chadwick) (13 Feb 1905 Warwick-1947) 2. Ivor (22 Dec 1909 Dulwich, London-1982 Isle of Man))
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Land, Red 22, Pioneers, Barnes, DSO, SS, Rift Valley, Gazette
War Service: Royal Welch Fusiliers
General Information:
Gazette 6 Dec 1938, Rift Valley Voters List
Land - R. Gurnell leased 5075 acres at Solai which passed to A.I. Lean
Pioneers - Solai - Fritz Freyburg - In 1929 my hut on the old '35' farm had been inhabited by Colonel Lean's manager, who had shared it with his wife and a python. This python was the wife's pet, and seemed to dislike the husband intensely. The python shared the wife's bed and the husband didn't dare go near her. There came a time when she had to go to England for several months. She put the python in a comfortable cage and made her husband promise, by all he held dear, to care for it tenderly during her absence. For days after her departure the poor fellow was tormented. What should he do? Old Colonel Lean was in no doubt. 'If you're half a man, shoot the damned thing.' At last the manager poked a shotgun into the cage and blew its head off. When his wife returned, everyone had been coached to tell the same story. The python had pined away and died from a broken heart during its mistress's absence.
Nairobi City Park cemetery - Lt.-Col. Alan Ivan Lean, DSO, died 19 Feb 1949 aged 76. Inscription: In memoriam Alan Ivan Lean DSO Royal Welch Fusiliers Died 19 February 1949 aged 76 years. Greatly loved and missed R.I.P.
DSO - A.I. Lean - 2nd Lt. R.W. Fus 28.9.1892; Lt. 2.4.1895; Capt. 21.1.1898; Major 11.5.1907; Lt-Col. 11.5.1912; Paym. A.P. Staff Paym. 21.1.1898 - 11.5.1907; served S. African War 1900-02; Queen's Medal with clasp; King's Medal, 2 clasps; Eur. War; Despatches. - For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in the field …
All Saints Limuru Cemetery - Violet Lean, widow of Lt.-Col. Alan Ivan Lean DSO, died 14 Dec 1959, aged 77. Inscription: in memoriam / Violet Lean / widow of / Lt Col Alan Ivan Lean DSO / died 14th December 1959 / aged 77 years / greatly loved and missed / RIP
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Lieut.-Col. A.I. Lean, DSO, Command Pay Office, 52 North Bridge, Edinburgh - Farm 702 - Representative, Major-Gen. K.E. Lean, CB, c/o National Bank of India, Nairobi
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Major-Gen. K.E. lean, CB, 70 Dover Road, Walmer, Kent - Farm 1706
Rift Valley - Member of the Rift Valley Sports Club - Jan 1929 - Elected - 18 Feb 1922 - Lt.-Col. A.I. Lean
Gazette 23/6/1920 - Notice - As Sir Charles Liston Foulis Bart. Has resigned the Managership of my Lake Solai estate and as I am now residing on my said estate, I therefore hereby cancel, as from the first day of May 1920 the Power of Attorney dated 22/1/1918 executed by me in favour of Sir Charles Liston Foulis Bt. Nairobi
Gazette 2 Feb 1960 wife's probate
Red 25 has Col. A.J. Lean
First meeting of Subukia branch of the EAWL held in his wife's house in 1937