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“Dr & Mrs Philp & Robert. They were very good to me.” “Dr Philp & family – my friend & colleague at Tumutumu.” Group portrait of the Philp family. Dr Horace Philp (1883- 1956) was posted to Tumutumu in April 1910 to develop the medical work and was one of the first doctors to train African medical assistants, he was ordained in 1921 and retired from missionary work in 1930. Mary Whyte gained an MA (hons) at the University of Edinburgh and married Mr Philp on 22 March 1912 and they had one son. Robert Anderson Philp (1913-2008) was fluent in the Kikuyu language and acted as an interpreter during the trial of Jomo Kenyatta, he studied Divinity at the University of Edinburgh and returned to Tumutumu as a missionary. He married Ethel Jeane Caddick in 1946. ❧ This image is from an album chronicling the time that Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) spent at Tumutumu (1919-1921) and some of the early years at Chogoria.
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