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Name: BRETT, Herbert Edgar
Birth Date: 26 Mar 1889 Walham Green, London
Death Date: 27 Oct 1946 Nakuru
First Date: 1922
Profession: Accountant
Area: Nakuru
Married: In Nairobi 19 Dec 1932 Emmarentia Margrith Malan b. S. Africa, d. 26 Aug 1955 Nakuru (widow, dau of Owen Roe O'Neill and prev. m. to Gerhardus Jacobus Kestell Malan on 31 Mar 1920 in Pretoria)
Children: June Julia (29 June 1933 Nakuru) (Wood); Rhoda O'Neill (4 Aug 1935 Nakuru-12 Apr 1999 Honiton, Devon) (Trayner)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Rift Valley
War Service: Royal Staffs Rgt
General Information:
Hut also has N.E. Brett 1930 Nakuru as well as H.E. Brett
Red 22 - H.R. Brett, Nakuru
Red 22 - H.E. Brett - Accountant, Nakuru
Rift Valley - Member of the Rift Valley Sports Club - Jan 1929 - Elected - 10 Jul 1920 - H.E. Brett
KAD 1922 - Committee Member, Rift Valley Sports Club.
Red 25 has H.R. Brett, Nakuru.
Red 25 - H.E. Brett, Nakuru Secretary, Agricultural and Horticultural Society of Kenya.
Red 31 has N.E. Brett, Nakuru.
Hut has H.R. Brett 1925 Njoro
Gazette - 21/5/1929 - Bankruptcy Ordinance - Herbert Edgar Brett - Accountant of Nakuru
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Voters List Rift Valley
Julie Trayner (granddaughter) He was brought out to Kenya by "Beeston Timber" Mills in Njoro as their Accountant and then worked for Bell & Company in Nakuru where he was working when he died of a lung haemorrhage. He had been in the trenches in world War 2 and was wounded with shrapnel in his cheek and had one toe missing.