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Name: TWIGG, Francis John Despard CBE (Surgeon Rear Admiral)
Birth Date: 22 Jan 1888 Limerick, Ireland
Death Date: 3 July 1962 Nyeri
Nationality: Australian
Last Date: 1951
Profession: Surgeon, retired from Royal Navy
Area: Nyeri
Married: 1. In Sheppey 1913 Esther Josephine Greene b. 1889 Dublin, d. 20 Sep 1942 Plymouth, nurse; 2. In Fareham 8 Mar 1948 Florence Maud Cook b. 3 Nov 1913, d. 12 Feb 1990 Nyeri [Nat. Probate Calendar has Sue Ryder Home, Petersfield]
Children: 2. Francis John (1949)
Book Reference: Hut, Baptism, Barnes, Who's Who
School: Queen's College, Cork
General Information:
Nairobi City Park cemetery - Francis Walter Despard Twigg, died 16 Feb 1951 aged 68 [a cousin b. 1883]
St. Peter's, Nyeri cemetery - Surgeon Rear Admiral F.J.D. Twigg, CBE, MB, BCH, DOMS, 3 July 1962 and his devoted wife Florence Maud Twigg, 12 February 1990.
Gazette 24 July 1962 probate
Nat Probate Calendar says 2nd wife died in Petersfield, UK