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Name: MUIR, James Leonard MBE
Nee: son of David Muir
Birth Date: 26 June 1912 Nairobi
Death Date: 24 May 2001 Ashford, Kent
First Date: 1926
Profession: Linotype Operator, Printing & Stationery Dept., in 1939, appointed 1938. Originally Apprentice 1926. Supdt. Letterpress Division in 1953.
Area: Nairobi
Married: Kathleen Elizabeth b. 26 Jan 1914, d. 2004 Kent
Children: Nigel Barry (1947)
Book Reference: Staff 39, Staff 53, Sitrep 2, Colonial, Harmony, Masonic, mini-Sitrep XXI
General Information:
Colonial - Senior Press Supt. 1956; Asst. Govt. Printer 1958-64
Member of Lodge Harmony - Initiated 2/2/42, age 27, Asst. Government Printer, died 24/5/2001
Masonic - District Assistant Grand Pursuivant - 1956-57
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 89)
Blue Book 1934 appt 1.6.1926 as Govt. Press clerk
Gazette 21 June 1960 James Leonard Muir to act as Govt printer from 22 Apr 1960
UK Foreign and Overseas Registers for birth