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Name: BEGBIE, Thomas Mortimer
Birth Date: 13 Aug 1870 Edinburgh
Death Date: 27 Oct 1912 Nairobi
Last Date: 1912
Profession: Hotelier
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Southwark 21 July 1906 Eva Maud Thomas b. 6 Aug 1881 Camberwell, d. 24 Oct 1959 Nairobi (later m. John Henry Smalley Noon 1882-1946)
Children: Mollie Burnside (15 Sep 1907 New Malden-1984); Alexander Mortimer Thomas Begbie (14 Aug 1910 New Malden-1982)
Book Reference: Nicholls, Barnes, Gazette
General Information:
Nicholls - As more young civil servants arrived, they rented houses together or lived in boarding houses. The best known of these was Mrs Begby's, a wood and corrugated-iron building in Parklands, which became Nairobi's fourth hotel, the Salisbury.
Nairobi South cemetery - "in loving memory of Thomas Begbie of Stirling N B aged 42, who died at Nairobi October 20 1912, peace perfect peace"
First husband of Mrs H. Noon
Gazette 15/11/1912 - Probate and Administration in respect of the estate of Thomas Begbie who died at Nairobi on 27/10/1912 [sic]
His son Alexander changed his name to Noon by deed poll.