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Name: SHERWOOD, Peter Orford Bowers (Lieut.-Col.)
Birth Date: 26 Oct 1903 Brentford
Death Date: 16 Apr 1989 Worthing
First Date: 1930
Last Date: 1973
Profession: Actor. Regular Army; The Stage (Donovan Maule, Nbi.); 'Magic on Safari'; Schoolmaster (St. Andrews Turi Kenya 1954-62 & 1971-73); BBC London & TVS Southampton; Inner Magic Circle
Area: Nairobi, Langata
Married: In Teignmouth, Devon 1936 Marie Theodora Wyatt b. 22 Sep 1911 Exeter, d. 7 Sep 1997 Yeovil
Children: Judith; Timothy James (6 Feb 1941 Teignmouth-2 Apr 2018 Melbourne, Australia); Jane Elizabeth (1947 Newton Abbot); John
Book Reference: EAWL
War Service: Beds. & Herts. - W. Africa 1940-42; KAR 1942-45, then Ceylon
School: Bedford School, Sandhurst
General Information:
Seconded from Beds. & Herts. Regt. in 1930 to Kenya and Nyasaland - 2 tours 1930-33 and 1933-36.
1950 - Donovan Maule production "This was a Woman" with Basil Hurle-Hobbs, Jean Parnell, Vivian Pickles, Mollie Maule, Michael Partridge (later BBC Newscaster as Michael de Morgan).
1953 - Peter as General manager of Donovan Maule Theatre after leaving the Army. Took a production up to a School in Turi run by the Lavers. The Donovan Maule Theatre was in difficulties during Mau Mau times due to dwindling audiences, so Peter left them and did a conjuring tour at Kenya Coast, Uganda, Tanganyika and the Rhodesias - 'Magic on Safari', which included ventriloquism.
He was an actor, known for Softly Softly (1966), Mad Dog Morgan (1976) and The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970).