RS - Evan was educated at Cambridge, got a blue for rowing and served as a pilot in the RAF during WW2. Was married to ?, had a child Nigel who died in infancy, subsequently divorced. He then went to Uganda with the Agricultural Department where he met and married Stella. Prior to the outbreak of war he was stationed in Nigeria. He left Uganda to take over Karati farm from his mother who retired with Daphne to a property on the shores of Lake Naivasha. Karati was the original farm allocated to Thomas and Marjorie Weir Aggett (née Smith, sister of William Alexander Smith) and left to their five daughters - Emma Jane and Arthur bought out the other four sisters.

Bruce Rooken Smith Evan was born in Nairobi and educated at the Nakuru Primary School in Kenya, St. Paul's School in London and at Jesus College, Cambridge from whence he obtained an M.A. Degree. He was awarded a Trial Cap for rowing (a 1/2 Blue) and although he won his place in the Cambridge Crew he was dropped shortly before the race due to illness and thus never rowed against Oxford to gain his full Blue. Whilst at Cambridge he learnt to fly with the University Air Squadron and obtained an 'A' licence. On leaving Cambridge he entered the Agricultural Department of the Colonial Service and served for two years in Nigeria. While on leave in Kenya he joined the Royal Air Force as by then war had broken out. He was trained in Southern Rhodesia (as it then was) and on gaining his 'Wings' and Commission, was posted to 31 Squadron in India. After about two years on operations in the Middle East and Burma he was posted to the New Delhi Communications Flight where he rose to be Second-in-Command with the rank of Squadron Leader. During this time he flew many of the most senior Officers and civilians about their duties in South East Asia Command. During his service with the Royal Air Force he was twice 'mentioned in despatches'. For the last year of the war he served in an Air Staff Branch of the Air Ministry in London's Whitehall. After the war he rejoined the Colonial Service and was posted to Uganda where he served until that country achieved self-government, when he was allowed to retire. He had hoped to spend the rest of his days at 'Karati', the family farm in Kenya, but after a frustrating four years there, bedevilled by stock thefts, illegal charcoal burning and labour troubles, he was forced to sell the farm for what he could get. He returned to England and joined the staff of a preparatory school in Somerset where he rose to become the Deputy Headmaster. He finally retired to Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset in 1984. Stella Edith Tilson Smith. Stella joined a Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) in 1938 and was called up in 1940 to work in a civilian hospital to nurse casualties from Dunkirk. In 1941 she transferred to the Royal Navy and was stationed briefly at Portsmouth and Plymouth. She then, went to a Wornens' Royal Navy Service (WRNS) recruiting depot at Blundlesands, near Liverpool. In 1943 she was drafted to the Naval Hospital in Durban, South Africa. She returned to England in 1946 for demobilisation. She met Evan on the boat when returning from a holiday in Kenya in 1953. David, their son, went to the Royal College of Art and obtained a master's degree, whilst Susan attended London University, obtaining a BSc (Bons).