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Name: EMLEY, Herbert Barnes CMG

Photo Source: Phil Toye

Nee: son of Frank Emley

Birth Date: 18 Apr 1891 Pretoria, S. Africa

Death Date: 1 Nov 1948 Blackmoor, Scarcroft, Yorkshire

First Date: 1925

Profession: Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Railway at the time of the visit of the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Gloucester in 1928

Area: Nairobi

Married: 1. In Great Salkeld, Cumberland, 1916 Dorothy Margaret Horrocks b. 1893 Wreay, Cumberland, d. 1 Sep 1941 Greystoke, Cumberland; 2. In Leeds 1943 Mrs Frances Betty Carleton-Cowper née Illingworth b. 13 Sep 1907 Headingley (prev. m. to Geoffrey Thomas Middleton Carleton-Cowper 1889-1962)

Children: Sonia Edna (4 Nov 1917 Salkeld Hall, Cumberland-1988)

Book Reference: Permanent Way, Red 25, Red 31, Gazette, Dominion, Who's Who

War Service: London Regt.

General Information:

Gazette 1929 - H.B. Emley

Dominion - Public Works Department - Railways - Locomotive, Carriage & Wagon Dept. - Mechanical Engineer and Workshop Manager - 1930 - H. B. Emley

Red 25 has H.B. Emley,

Red 31 has H.B. Emley

Gazette - 26/3/1924 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Mechanical Engineer and Workshop Manager, U. Rly. - H.B. Emley

Gazette - 20/9/1927 - Probate and Administration - Annie Emley who died at 15 Henrietta Street, Marylebone, London on 21 September 1923. Applied for by Herbert Barnes Emley [Annie was his mother]

Gazette - 22/4/1930 - Departed on Transfer - Chief Mechanical Engineer, K&Urly - H.B. Emley

Founder of Kenya Kongonis Cricket Team

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