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Name: BREWER, Ronald Harry Turnour-

Birth Date: 1910 Brentford

Death Date: 14.4.1933 Nairobi

Last Date: 1933

Area: Nairobi

Married: In Nairobi 13 Apr 1933 Marjorie Smith b. 1908 Lambeth, d. 1968 Woolwich (sister of James Stuart Smith)

Book Reference: Barnes

General Information:

Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - Ronald Turnour Brewer, British, age 23, died 14/4/33
Western Morning News 18 Apr 1933 Four days ago Mr and Mrs H. Smith, of Queen's Gate, London, received a cable, signed Marjorie, which read, 'If you receive foolish telegram about me, don't believe it. I'm writing.' On Saturday the following cable, which had been sent on Thursday, was received: 'Married today name Tournour Brewer. Very happy. Writing airmail. Marjorie'. Mr Smith stated that his daughter Marjorie went abroad in January last year to pay a visit to her brother, Mr James Stewart Smith, and his wife who is a daughter of the Governor of Kenya. 'We have seen it stated in the papers that she had married someone named Ronald Tournour Brewer', said Mr Smith, 'and while she was on a visit to friends he was found shot dead in his hotel, but beyond the cable we have had no news.'V29 Apr 1933 • Govt House, Nairobi, Kenya (suicide)
Inquest 3 May 1933 James Stuart Smith, verdict suicide in Government House of unsound mind, following the wedding of his sister Marjorie to Ronald Turnour Brewer on 13 April 1933 after which Brewer committed suicide on the 14 April 1933.

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