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Name: ROSS, Fortescue Eric Vesey 'Fortie' (Rev.)
Birth Date: 13 Aug 1907 Belfast
Death Date: 24 Dec 1996 Kendal
First Date: 1930
Profession: Church Missionary Society missionary, Maseno
Area: Kisumu
Married: 20 Apr 1937 Joy Frances Wigram b. 11 July 1909 Thandiani, India, d. 12 Mar 1992 Bowness on Windermere
Children: Wendy Joy (1939); Brian (1942); Ian (1945); Michael (1947)
Book Reference: Hut, Foster
School: MA Cantab; Ridley Hall
General Information:
Foster - November 1933 ordained; November 1934 priested; 1934 he arrived in Kenya posted to Butere; later posted to CMS Maseno Boys' School; On 16 August 1940 he joined the EAMLS and he resigned from CMS on 27 April 1944
1939 England and Wales Register living in Birmingham, on leave from Kenya