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Name: KIRKWOOD, Anthony Derrick James
Nee: son of Col. James George Kirkwood of Kitale
Birth Date: 1923 possibly Kenya
Death Date: 16 Jan 1957 Nairobi, suicide
First Date: 1923
Last Date: 1957
Area: Kitale
Married: In Kensington 1951 Matilda O.H. Johnston
Book Reference: Kenton, EA & Rhodesia, Barnes
School: Kenton College - left 1936
General Information:
East Africa & Rhodesia - 31/1/57 - Mr Anthony Derrick James Kirkwood, aged 33, who had arrived in Kenya only one day earlier from England was found dead in his hotel room in Nairobi recently with a sporting rifle beside him. He was a son of the late Lieut.-Colonel J.G. Kirkwood, who died in Kenya in 1955, and who was at one time an elected member of the Legislature
Nairobi City Park cemetery - Anthony Derrick J. Kirkwood, died 16 Jan 1957 aged 33