Alexander Howard Cook

Howard married Katherine Mary Varvill. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Son of Michael Noel Varvill of Harbour Cottage, West Wittering. Educated at Gordonstoun School and Southampton University.

Qualified naval architect. Worked for Distillers Col and BP before starting his own company in 1968, specialising in the manufacture of plastic products for the building industry.

1 son and 1 daughter.

Mark married Elizabeth Anne Agar. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1891, South Cave, Yorkshire East Riding
• Occupation: 1925-1935, Bulawayo, Rhodesia; Chief Engineer of Rhodesian Railways

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Son of Edward Ashton Agar of La Haut, Dominica. Baptised at St. George's Roseau, October 1897. Educated at Kings School, Canterbury.

Farmed the family estate, La Haut, Dominica.

Percy married Daphne Marian Gibbs on 5 Jan 1934 in Roseau, Saint George, Dominica. Daphne (daughter of Captain Maurice Antony Crutchley Gibbs and Elma Gordon Cumming) was born on 8 Nov 1912 in Chelsea, London; died on 4 Jan 2011 in Roseau Hospital, St George, Dominica. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 7 Dec 1912, Chelsea, London

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Born 8 November 1912. Baptised 7 December 1912 at the chapel of the Royal Hospital Chelsea (first baby).

Went to Australia with her parents living first in Melbourne and then in Perth where she attended The Presbyterian Ladies College. She returned to England when she was 12 and finished her education at Heathfield School and also in Paris. In 1932 her mother and stepfather moved to Dominica in the West Indies and she went with them, living there for the rest of her life. She marired Percy Kirwan Agar a farmer and well known painter and ornithologist. She ran the census office in the War. After husband’s death in 1954 she continued to run the estate, started the local radio station, worked for many local charities including the Red Cross and was a founder member and Managing director of the Fort Young Hotel for many years.

The Fort Young Hotel, Dominica, which was destroyed by Hurricane 'David' when it hit Dominica in August 1979, but since rebuilt. She also helped to run the Coulibri Estate dairy farm, and the farm at La Haut, the family estate, that was also totally wrecked in the hurricane; all the buildings on the dairy farm fell down, but only one cow was lost.

Last address: Morne Rouge, Dominica, West Indies, which was one of the few houses not destroyed by the hurricane.

Died 4 January 2011.

Birth:
27 Ormonde Gate