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Name: HOBBS, Robert Elliot Turner 'Peter'

Photo Source: David Reeve

Birth Date: 20.8.1907 Kelmscott, Oxon.

Death Date: 28 June 1991 Swindon [?12 June 1982]

First Date: 1932

Profession: Dep. Director of Agriculture in 1953. Originally Agric. Officer 1932. Civil Servant, Machakos

Area: Nairobi

Married: 1. Bridget Allen-Stevens; 2. Dorothy Patricia Bloxsome b. 17 Mar 1915 Fairford, d. 2002 Cockermouth

Children: 1. one dau; one son 2. Robert Alan (1939); Andrew Charles Bloxsome (1945)

Book Reference: Dunkley - Hunter memoirs; Nondies, Sitrep 2, Staff 53, Colonial, Barnes, Rugby

School: Leighton Park School, Reading University

General Information:

Barnes - Played for Nondies RFC in the 1930s

Rugby - Nondescripts RFC - Honours Cap - 1935

Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Ukamba Voters List expunged

Member of Nondescripts RFC XV in 1937. Pre-war volunteer to the Kenya Regiment (KR 640).

Ancestry Family Tree for alternative death date

Very keen and energetic Agricultural Officer at Kisii in 1936