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Name: TYRIE, Fred (Rev.)
Birth Date: 7 Aug 1885 Chiswick
Death Date: 1960 Tonbridge, buried 15 Nov
First Date: 1926
Last Date: 1943
Profession: Chaplain
Area: Eldoret
Married: In Edmonton, Middlesex 1935 Kathleen May Linnell b. 1904 Bedford, d. 1954 Maidstone
Children: one son
Book Reference: Red 31, Hut, Trans Nzoia Scrap Book, Foster
War Service: Hon. Artillery Co.
General Information:
Trans Nzoia Scrap Book - First incumbent of St. John's Church, Elgon in December 1926. His parish stretched from Kipkabus to Suam, an area about the size of Devonshire. St. Luke's Church, Kitale was not built until 1928 and Paddy Collier took over in 1936.
Foster - Rev F Tyrie - 1922 ordained; 1925 arrived in Kenya; 1926-39 Chaplain Nzoia Chaplaincy; 1934 married Miss Catherine Linsall at St. Phillip's Church, Maidstone [incorrect]; one son; left Kenya 1943
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Uasin Gishu Voters Roll with Kathleen May
1939 England and Wales Register living in Maidstone with wife, as clerk in holy orders