Finlay Cramb, an enterprising Englishman, came to Kenya in 1920 and established a school at Lumbwa named Kenya Grange. One of his early students was Sir Wilfrid Havelock who would later become one of the last white leaders to advocate for the smooth transfer of power to an African government after independence in 1963.
To get to school, Havelock had to travel by steamer across Lake Victoria and thence by train and finally by donkey. Kenya Grange school folded after just a few years. Harold Turner, son of a British father and Swiss mother, was educated at Cheltenham and then Pembroke College, Cambridge. Turner came to Kenya soon after World War I serving as an officer of the colonial administration where he rose to the position of district commissioner Embu.
