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Name: MANN, Arthur
Birth Date: 1895 Leeds
Death Date: 15 Apr 1946 Tanga
First Date: 1925
Profession: Businessman; engineer
Area: Molo, 1930 Punda Milia, Tanganyika
Married: ?1. In Leeds 1915 Mabel Annie Oldham b. 1896 Wood Newton, Northampton; 2. In Weeton, Yorks. 14 Aug 1924 Mabel Annie Gale b. 22 Nov 1895 Leeds
Book Reference: Golf, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Web
War Service: Durham Light Infantry
General Information:
Web - Arthur Mann was a director and family member of 'Mann's Patent Steam Cart and Wagon Company' of Leeds. In 1929 Arthur Mann's address was listed as Punda Milia, Makuyu, Kenya Colony. It has been suggested the above mentioned company may have been supplying machinery for rope making to Kenya.
Altered the Brackenhurst Golf Course considerably in 1930 to produce a sporting 7 holes with R.W. Hooper
Gazette 24 Sep 1946 probate
On his 1924 marriage cert. he is described as a bachelor, so possibly a different Arthur Mann occasioned the 1915 marriage.