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Name: WEVILL, Alfred Edward
Nee: son of Edward Harding Wevill
Birth Date: 1 Oct 1878 Rock Ferry, Cheshire
Death Date: 30 May 1965 Durban, S. Africa
First Date: 1919
Profession: Architect and quantity surveyor
Area: Box 17, Nairobi
Married: In Nairobi 6 Sep 1927 Kathleen Marion Whitelock b. 18 May 1892 Ixopo, Natal, d. 7 Jan 1965 Durban
Children: Anthony Grant (24 Oct 1928 Nairobi-16 Mar 1931 Nairobi); Alan Gordon (1935)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Macmillan, Red 22, Gazette
War Service: RGA
School: FSI
General Information:
Macmillan - 1930 - Wevill and Davies, Architects and Quantity Surveyors - Messrs Wevill and Davies, who have been established at Nairobi since 1919, and are making their influence felt there by the planning of buildings of all kinds. Amongst those for which they were the architects are The Memorial Hall, Motor Mart and Exchange, Court Chambers, Lady Macmillan's Memorial Nurses' Institute, Salvation Army Kenya Territorial Headquarters, War Memorial Hospital, Nakuru, also the premises of the Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd., Nakuru, and Cox and Co. at Eldoret. The partners are Mr Alfred E. Wevill FSI and Mr Idris Davies ARIBA.
Gazette 2/3/1921 - Dissolution of Partnership between William Miller Robertson and Alfred Edward Wevill practising under the style of Robertson and Wevill. Dissolved as from 1/1/1921.
KAD 1922 - Architect & Quantity Surveyor
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Nairobi South voters list with Kathleen Marion
Nairobi Forest Road cemetery Anthony Grant Wevill died 16 Mar 1941 aged 1 year, 4 months