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Name: ABRAHAM, Charles Thomas (Rt. Rev.)

Nee: only son of Right Rev Charles John Abraham, Bishop of Wellington, NZ

Birth Date: 13 Apr 1857 Auckland, New Zealand

Death Date: 27 Jan 1945 Upton Noble, Evercreech, Somerset

First Date: 1906

Profession: Clergyman, Bishop of Derby

Area: Molo, Songhor

Married: In Cuddesdon, Oxford 24 May 1883 Mary Theresa Furse, JP b. 9 Oct 1863 Staines, d. 7 Apr 1952 Frome

Children: Charles Wellington Rupert (23 July 1884 Atcham, Shrewsbury-1951 Kisumu); Jasper (11 Apr 1886 Atcham-1943); Marjorie Monsell (Swann) (1888-1972); Mary Theresa Caroline (1890-1978); Jeanie Furse (1891-1960; Michael Hudson Furse (12 Aug 1893 Lichfield-8 Feb 1991Mold, Clwyd); Geoffrey William Pepperell (6 Sep 1895 Lichfield-19 Nov 1917 Port Said); Philip Selwyn (29 July 1897 Lichfield-22 Dec 1955); Katharine Nona (Swann) (1901-1987); Delia Reynolds (Ecclestone) (1902-1982)

Book Reference: Gillett, HBEA, Hut, Land, Eton, Eton Obs

School: Keble College, Oxford

General Information:

Land - 1907 - Rev. C.T. Abraham - Grazing, 5000 acres, SW Slopes of Mau Escarpment, 9-4-05, Registered 24-9-07 & 29-9-07 {I think never resident in Kenya - just bought land for his sons but there may have been a Rev. C.F. Abraham as mentioned in Gillett and HBEA}

Eton - Vicar of Bakewell, late Ch. Ch. Lichfield; Keble, BA 1880; son of the late Bp. married - dau. of late Bp. Colenso Eton Obs - Canon and archdeacon of Westminster 1883-1900 and 1894-1900 respectively

Hut has Rev Charles T. Abraham (d. 1945) Bishop of Derby in 1904. Bought land for 3 sons Molo, married to Mary Furse and with a son C.W. Rupert

1939 England and Wales Register living with wife in Frome, retired

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