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Name: WEBSTER, John Lawrence Harvey CMG

Birth Date: 10 Mar 1913 Rangoon, Burma

Death Date: 19 Sep 2009 Worthing

First Date: 1935

Profession: Appointed as a DO in 1935. At Maralal in 1939. ADC Narok

Area: Maralal, Nairobi, Kabarnet

Married: 1. In Marylebone 1940 Elizabeth Angela Marston Gilbertson b. 26 June 1922, d. 1995 Yeovil (div. 1959); 2. 1960 Jessie Lilian Simpkin b. 25 Oct 1915 Burton upon Trent, d. 11 July 2011 Worthing (prev. m. Harold Royston-Smith 1916-1985)

Children: Diana C. (1942); Hilary (dau.); step-daus. Jill and Jenny

Book Reference: Staff 39, EAWL - Chris Bell, Staff 53, Colonial, O&C

School: Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford 1931-35; BA (Oxon)

General Information:

Colonial - Sec. Off. of Ch. Sec. 1955; Admin. Sec. 1955; Asst. Ch. Sec. 1955; Perm Sec. 1960-63
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Rift Valley Voters List
Best man to Christopher Bell. Sec. for Legal Affairs in 1953.
1939 England and Wales Register living with parents in Haslemere as Colonial Service Administrator, Kenya Colony

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