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Name: BRADNEY, George Preston CBE
Photo Source: W.A. Kempe photo album
Nee: son of John Bradney of Somerset, bro of Philip Edwin Bradney
Birth Date: 3.11.1877 Boulogne, France
Death Date: 26.4.1959 Bexhill on Sea
First Date: 1902
Profession: Joined the Colonial Audit Office in 1901, was Asst. Auditor British Central Africa Protectorate, in Feb. 1902 and Asst.. Auditor, EAP, in 1904
Area: Nairobi
Married: 1. In Paris 30.6.1904 Elizabeth Worthington; 2. Lilian Mary b. 5 Feb 1884 Ireland
Children: George Bernard Frederick (Nairobi 29.10.1905-1990)
Book Reference: Gillett, SE, EAHB 1905, Drumkey, EAHB 1906, North, EAHB 1907, Fox-Davies, Web
School: Oratory School, Edgbaston and Trinity Hall Cambridge, History (Honours) 1899
General Information:
SE - George Preston Bradney - Assistant Auditor - Feb 1908
EAHB 1905 - Colonial Audit Office, June 1901; Assistant Auditor, British C. Africa Protectorate, Feb. 8th 1902; Assistant Auditor, EAP, 1904
Drumkey 1909 - Audit Dept. - Assistant Auditor 1904
North - At Kisumu with wife, Elizabeth née Worthington 14-6-1905; Member of the Nairobi Infantry Section of the EAP Volunteer Reserve June 1905; Public Officer's Game Licence Nairobi Oct-Dec 1905
Web - Cambridge Alumni - Entered the Civil Service; Exchequer and Audit Department, Colonial Audit Branch, 1901; in Fiji and Western Pacific 1909. Director of External Audit, Straits Settlement and FMS 1914. Auditor for the Straits Settlement and the FMS 1932; retired 1936. CBE 1936
1939 England and Wales Register living in Hastings with second wife