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Name: FINCH, John Douglas 'Jack'

Birth Date: 1880 Hampstead, London, bapt. 26 May

Death Date: 23 Jun 1952 Nairobi

First Date: 1912

Last Date: 1952

Profession: Initially he took up farming at Naivasha, and after the war moved to Kima, where he undertook contracts for supplying sand and fuel. Later he moved with his family to Nairobi where he practised as an advocate

Area: Naivasha, Kima, Nairobi, 1922 Sultan Hamed, 1925 Kalimbwani, Kima Station, 1920 Molo

Married: 1. In London 1902 Marguerite Lilian Milson b. 29 Jan 1881 Hampstead, d. 23 Mar 1961 (later m. Hubert J. Blackwood); 2. In Mombasa 1912 Jessie Wallis b. 1881, d. 2 Oct 1963 Nairobi

Children: 1. Phyllis 2. Beryl Mary Edith (Bailey) (2 July 1913 Nairobi-1999); Dudley Guy (23 June 1914 Naivasha-1995); Bernard Douglas 'Barney' (twin 23 June 1914 Naivasha-1995 Durban); Arthur 'John' Henage (RAF, shot down and killed in WW2)

Book Reference: Gillett, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Legion, Red 22, Gazette, Barnes, SS, Leader14

War Service: Captain - KAR in WW1 - joined Kenya Branch of British Legion in 1933

School: Radley, Trinity College, Cambridge - took degree in law

General Information:

Red 22 - Kalimbwani, Kima Station

Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Naivasha - J. Douglas Finch (British), Settler, Naivasha

Nairobi City Park cemetery - Jack Douglas Finch, died 23 Jun 1952 aged 72

Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Lieut. J.D. Finch, c/o Messrs Finch and Jennings, 2 Gray's Inn Square, WC1 - Farm 48

Obituary - East African Standard 5 May 1961, p.9

Gazette 16 Nov 1936 Voters List 1936 - John Douglas Finch, Solicitor, Bolus House, Nbi. and Jesse Finch, Box 599, Nbi

Gazette 3 Mar 1964 wife's probate
Arthur “John" Henage Finch left Kenya about 1936 and joined the RAF and became a Flt Lieutenant flying Beaufort torpedo bombers in Sqn 217 Coastal Command.He died with 3 flight crew during the Channel Dash 12 Feb 1942.

Daughter Beryl developed polio when about 7 and spent a decade in England receiving treatment, eventually living on the Isle of Wight. She married John Bailey late in life and after his death in the early 70s she emigrated to BC and lived with her brother Guy and sister-in-law in Qualicum.

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