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Name: FISHER, Derek Chandos Sydney
Nee: son of Sydney Fisher and Anne Louise Van-Notten-Pole
Birth Date: 25 Sep 1901 Amington, Staffs.
Death Date: 1972 Kings Lynn
First Date: 1934
Profession: Farmer, game warden, estate agent
Area: Kipipiri, Gilgil
Married: 1. In Meru 7 Nov 1952 Patricia Constance Phyllis Mayhew b. 1924 Elham, Kent, d. 20 July 1979 Limuru (prev. m. Patrick William Mackenzie Dean 1920-1995 and later m. John Matthias Oxenham Dyer 1920-1877); 2. Eileen Patricia Hartigan née Mayhew b. 22.3.1923, d. 20 July 1979
Children: Phyllis Sydney Shedden; Dora Louise Sydney; Enid Sydney; Derek Chandos Sydney
Book Reference: Mischief, Hut, Barnes
General Information:
Mischief - At Muthaiga Club early on the night of Lord Erroll's murder.
Gazette 5/4/1938 - Honorary Game Warden
Mischief - a Happy Valley resident, who would order the servants to arrange the chairs in lines to resemble a train. He would push the chairs through the sitting room, hooting and puffing to the howling encouragement of his friends.
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Rift Valley Voters List farm manager, Kipipiri
Gazette 8 Jun 1937 - appt as game warden
?Married Patricia Ward on 3 Oct 1936
Genesta Hamilton, A Stone's Throw, 1986 During the war Pat has been running her little farm or on her own. She has got 91 acres of pyrethrum planted, and the natives work for her happily and docilely. The English women have been wonderful during the war years..