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Name: Geoffrey. Carlyon b 1869 second son of H Carlyon of Torquay Died: May 12, 1935


Charterhouse register 1872-1910
Geoffrey Carlyon left C.Q 1880 joined S.Lancashire Regiment 1890 served South African War 1899 -1900 Captain 1900. Captain G Carlyon, Isthmian Club.W


Adm. at Kings, Sept. 28, 1888. Son of Horatio [of Catewell, Torquay].
School, Charterhouse. Matric. Michs. 1888. Left Sept. 1889.
At Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1889-90.
Joined 1st South Lancs. Regt., 1890; served in the South African War, 1899-1900.
Capt., 2nd South Lancs. Regt., 1901; at Jubbulpore, India, till Mar. 1903; at Shorncliffe, Aldershot and The Curragh, 1903-12; retired 1912.
In Northern Rhodesia, 1912-14.
Served in the Great War (Commanded 7th Batt., South Lancs. Regt., 1914; in France, 1915; Commander of Reserve Batt., Aldershot, 1916-18; with the North Russian Expeditionary Force, 1918; returned, 1919; Lieut.-Col.).
Settled in Kenya Colony, 1920.
Died May 12, 1935. Buried at Aldershot. (King's Coll. Adm. Reg.)

1871 census St Marys Church Devon
Horatio Carlyon 1844 Plymouth, Devon Head
Jane E Carlyon 1843 Manchester, Somerset Wife
Jeffrey Carlyon 1870 St Mary Church, Devon Son
Lucy J J Carlyon 1867 Clifton, Somerset Daughter
and assorted servants

Kenya 1918-1939

In 1920, The British East Africa protectorate was renamed the Kenya Colony and Protectorate, consisting of the coastal strip, capital Mombasa, held by Britain on behalf of the Sultan of Zanzibar (the Kenya Protectorate) and the larger inland region, the Kenya colony, a Crown Colony. The minority of white settlers dominated political life in the colony.
In 1925 the Kikuyu Central Organisation was formed to voice the Kikuyu's dissatisfaction with the political situation; Jomo Kenyatta emerged as their leader. In 1930 a Penal Code was published.
In 1937 Income Tax was introduced. In 1921 a new currency, the East African Florin was introduced, common to Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika; the latter had joined the customs union between Kenya and Uganda in 1927. In the 1930es Gold Mining expanded.
Britain, in order to appease Mussolini's Italy - Italy had been made promises of considerable territorial gain in 1915, gains which had only partially materialized - ceded the Jubaland to Italy in 1926, a sparsely populated region in Kenya's east, inhabited by Somalis. Simultaneously, Kenya's territory was expanded westward, now including the west bank of Lake Turkana.
In 1935, Italian troops invaded Ethiopia. For Kenya, war was just around the corner.