11111122 Kenneth Wilfred Grant de Candole
Kenneth was born 20 June 1903, in Stokesay, Shropshire, the second son of Rev. Armar Corry Vully de Candole and Edith Hodgson.In the 1911 Census he was in Hammersmith.
In 1933, agd 30, he was a Visitor to St. Edward's School, Oxford.
On 29 September 1939 he registered in Welwyn.
Kenneth farmed in South Africa.
In 1956 in Surrey, Kenneth married Mabel Grace Frances nee Bond as her second husband. They had no children.
Kenneth died in Surrey in Q1 1959.
Mabel Grace Frances nee Bond
Mabel Grace Frances nee Bond was born on 21 September 1905 in Battle, Sussex
Mabel died in Surrey in 1991.
A mystery here, because this is the only connection with South africa - and the name Kenneth is mentioned.
THE FAMOUS FIVE
The Natal Convocation News of the University of Natal published in July 1983 carried an article on "NUC's Famous Five". These were the Pennington Brothers. "The Pennington Brothers made an enormous contribution to the fields of education and sport, and to the Anglican Church in Natal and Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) - a contribution that extended over 50 years of sustained effort. The Pennington name has been linked with Michaelhouse, Cordwalles and Whitestone School, Zimbabwe. It was at Michaelhouse that the five brothers and their descendants, 16 in all, were first educated.
Their father was an Anglican Clergyman, George Edgar Pennington of Greytown, born on 14 December 1854, in Kendal, Westmorland, where he died in Q1 1938, He was educated in Kendal, England, and came to South Africa in 1883. He had five sons - Eric, Kenneth, Maurice, Douglas and Gerald.
Curiosity
"Kenneth obtained his BA Degree in 1917 and joined the Royal Flying Corps and with two other airmen, had a miraculous hundred-mile escape on foot after being shot down behind the Turkish Lines. "After the war he went as a Natal Rhodes Scholar to Trinity College, Oxford, to read for BCL Law Degree and later an MA. The call of education was too strong for him, however, and in 1925 he gave up Law and joined the staff of Michaelhouse where he taught history and mathematics for the next 34 years. "He was later to become acting Rector and Senior Master there and was Honorary Secretary of the Michaelhouse Old Boys' Club for 35 years. The statue ofthe buck in the Pennington Quadrangle at Michaelhouse is a Memorial to Kenneth Mission Pennington.
It is curious, because the WebMaster of this WebSite was at Michaehouse in the 1950s and remembers Kennth, always known as "KMP". But here is the mystery, involving a different brother, that brought this WebSite to the attention of Google :-
The fourth Pennington brother was Douglass de Candole, both play producer and teacher. Hewasan undergraduate at NUC in 1924 and became President of SRC in 1925. "Unable to play much sport himself, as a result of having suffered from infantile paralysis, he nevertheless became secretary of the Athletics Union in 1924. He was responsible for designing the famous Rag caterpillar in 1924 which needed 16 men to mobilise it. It was suggested that Douglass stand at the head since he was the brains of the whole thing. After a period of teaching he came back to NUC and completed his BA Degree in 1932 and then taught at Michaelhouse before going on to Rhodesia in 1948 where he was appointed as vice-Principal of Whitestones School, six miles outside Bulawayo. He remained there for 18 years until 1966, eventually returning to South Africa to take over the Principalship of Treverton. He also taught at Clifton School. He died in 1975.
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WHY did HE bear the name "de Candole" ????
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