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Name: THORNTON, Benjamin Beckett
Nee: son of Edmund and Mary Ann, bro of John Ellis, George Rycroft, Harold Arthur and Frank Leslie Thornton
Birth Date: 29 June 1890 Idle, Yorkshire
Death Date: 25 May 1940 Nairobi
First Date: 1922
Profession: Senior Asst. Accountant, Accounts Dept., Railways & Harbours Dept., in 1939, appointed 1932. Originally Clerk 1922
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Shipley, Yorks. 24 Apr 1918 Margaret Stell b. 1 Dec 1893 Baildon, Yorks.
Children: Jeanne Margaret (23 July 1924 Nairobi)
Book Reference: Staff 39, Red 25, Red 31, Colonial, Harmony, Barnes, Golf
War Service: War service 1914-19
School: FIAC
General Information:
Member of Lodge Harmony - Joined 3/10/27, died 1940
Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - Benjamin Beckett Thornton, British, age 50, died 25/5/40
On first committee of Railway Golf Club in 1923