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Name: TRUSCOTT, Roy Francis OBE (Lieut.-Col.)
Nee: son of James Freeman Truscott
Birth Date: 4 Sep 1881 Paddington, London
Death Date: 12 Apr 1938 Millslade Brendon, Devonshire
First Date: 1921
Profession: 'East African Standard' editor-in-chief
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Richmond, Surrey 3 May 1913 Ruth Meda Angerstein Kendall b. 7 Sep 1889 Kensington, London, d. 2 Feb 1948 London; 2. ?Gertrude Violet Hunter née Woodman b. 23 Mar 1896 Tulse Hill, London, d. 14 Jan 1979 Hove (prev. m. to Robert West Hunter 1879-1924)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 22, Alumni
War Service: European War, France 1916-19, Sherwood Foresters; Assist. QMG GHQ France (despatches twice)
School: Clifton College, King's College Cambridge
General Information:
Red 22 - Vice-President, Nairobi Political Association
Red 22 - Hon. Sec. And Treas., Old Cliftonian Society, East African Branch
Red 22 - Called to the Bar, Inner Temple
Cambridge Univ. Alumni - Called to the Bar, Inner Temple, 1909; On the North-Eastern Circuit. Director and General Manager of Messrs James Truscott and Son Ltd., printers and wholesale stationers. A Lieutenant for the City of London. Member of the Court of Common Council of the City of London; Editor in Chief of the East African Standard at Nairobi 1921-2
Red 25 - Member, Kenya Land Settlement Advisory Board.
KAD 1922 - Committee, EASPCA
Nat Probate Calendar - probate went to Ruth Meda