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Name: MORRISON, George Roy Nevill
Birth Date: 7 June 1893 Hammersmith
Death Date: 10 Dec 1957 Hemel Hempstead
First Date: 1920
Profession: Farmer, journalist
Area: Rongai
Married: In London 1923 Edith Marjorie Armstrong b. 16 Sep 1897 West Dean, Sussex, d. 5 Apr 1937 Chipperfield, Herts.
Children: Audrey Ruth (Dale) (9 Mar 1924 Kenya-9 Jan 2018 Danbury, Essex); Susan Janet (Pyper) (2 Mar 1929 Nakuru-31 Oct 2019 Haywards Heath)
Book Reference: Red 25, Red 31, EA & Rhodesia, Rhodesia, SS
War Service: 6th Bedfordshire Regt, France 1914-17, KAR in 1917 in GEA
General Information:
East Africa & Rhodesia - 19/12/57 - Obituary Rhodesia - Roy Morrison, who died while this book was in the press, had been a member of the editorial staff of 'East Africa & Rhodesia' for 12 years, and in 1946 had written for the same publishers a book entitled "Mixed Farming in East Africa", the first volume on the subject. In the 1914-18 war he served in France & East Africa, and he then farmed in the Rongai district of Kenya. He served in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somaliland throughout the 1939-46 war.
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Lieut. G.R.N. Morrison, 8 King's Bench Walk, Inner Temple, EC4 - Farm 716 - Representative, J.T. Williams
Red 31 has G.R. Morrison, Rongai. Chairman of the Rongai Valley Association. A practical farmer of considerable experience in Kenya
Gazette - 15/11/1927 - Dissolution of Partnership between George Roy Nevill Morrison and John Watts Ratcliffe carrying on business as farmers in the Nakuru District.