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Name: VAN SOMEREN, Robert Abraham Logan MB, ChB
Nee: bro of Victor Gurner Logan Van Someren
Birth Date: 1880 Straits Settlements
Death Date: 12.10.1955 Nairobi
First Date: 1905
Last Date: 1955
Profession: Appointed Medical Officer in Uganda Protectorate
Area: Uganda, 1947 Sagana Kiganjo, 1922 Entebbe
Married: Mary Matheson Cunningham b. 1887, d. 1938 Surrey
Children: Robert Gerald Cunningham (1908 Kyetume, Uganda); Richard Kenneth Alexander (26 Apr 1913 Bugosa, Jinja); Vernon Donald (10 June 1915 Jinja)
Author: (with bro Victor) Studies of Bird Life in Uganda'
Book Reference: Gillett, Hut, EA & Rhodesia, Drumkey, Red 22, EAHB 1906, North, EAHB 1907, Barnes
School: Edinburgh University & Royal College of Surgeons Edin.
General Information:
East Africa & Rhodesia - 8/12/55 - Dr. R.A.L. van Someren, who has died in Nairobi at the age of 75, joined the Uganda Medical Service in 1905. Twenty years later he went to Edinburgh, where he practised until 1938, when he returned to East Africa to farm in the Nyeri district of Kenya.
Drumkey 1909 - Medical Dept. - Medical Officer
North - Appt. temporary Medical Officer dep. England for EA 14/10/1905; arr. Mombasa 6/11/1905; 1906 Mombasa
Nairobi City Park cemetery - Robert Abraham Van Sommeren [sic], died 12 Oct 1955 aged 75
Gazette 29 July 1952 he wants probate for Marion Leila Van Someren