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Name: HARRAWAY, Cyril Guy
Birth Date: 31 Aug 1894 Lambeth
Death Date: 22 Aug 1966 Thika, suicide
First Date: 1925
Last Date: 1966
Profession: Planter
Area: Makuyu, 1925 Nakuru, 1922 Nyangamara Makuyu
Married: In Mombasa Cathedral 1930 Nina 'Bubbles' Fremlin b. 1908 (cousin of Arthur Wolseley-Lewis)
Children: Phyllida (Taylor, Meacham) (1939)
Book Reference: Golf, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Limuru, Pioneers, Wolseley-Lewis, Barnes
War Service: Hon. Artillery Co.
General Information:
Limuru - Letter from Phyllida Harraway (later Meacham) - at Limuru 1949-52 - …. My parents had a small coffee farm at Makuyu, near Thika. My father went to Kenya shortly after the first war in which he was badly wounded and lost a leg. He died in 1966 and my mother continued running the farm until 1973 or thereabout, when she sold it and bought a house next to me in Karen.
Pioneers - A dinner party - N. Harraway - I came to live at Makuyu in 1931 ….. [more]
Makuyu GC Club Captain 1939.
Thika cemetery - Cyril Guy Harraway, 1894-1966
Wolseley-Lewis - 1930s - Next door to me was Geoffrey Jackson, who had been an opera singer and had not taken much part in the war. He and Guy Harraway made a good pair when we had sing-songs. Guy was remarkable being a natural piano player. He could sit down and play any tune and had a good singing voice. He could listen to a piece of classical music and immediately play it perfectly, but he could not read a note. ……….
Guy also suffered from a war wound, or worse, from the nursing afterwards. He got a bed sore on his heel, which would not heal, so they cut off his foot, which was gangrenous. That did not heal so they cut off his leg below the knee. That was no good either, and eventually they cut off his leg above the knee. He had special tin legs made, but they always gave him pain and sores. He committed suicide in the end - he could take no more.
Bubbles, my cousin, and Guy had a daughter Phyllida. When the price of coffee went up after WW2 Guy was able to complete the house he always wanted and for which he had laid down foundations many years before. For nearly 30 years they had struggled on in a mud and wattle house, which was very cosy and homely. Luckily everyone else had been struggling on very poor coffee prices, so he was one of many.
Phyllida became a very well known painter and sculptor of bronzes. She married first, john Taylor, and they had two sons. He was too much a playboy and she divorced him and married an American banker, Dave Meacham, and had two daughters. He ran the family fortunes successfully and she inherited all Henry Parker's {her grandfather} Persian carpets. They lived in Edinburgh.
Wolseley-Lewis - a mile down the road my cousins Guy and Bubbles Harraway had their coffee farm. They had married, just about the time I arrived, {1930} in Mombasa Cathedral.
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Ukamba Voters List has Cyril Guy
Gazette 27 Sep 1966 probate for Cyril Guy