462. Pamela Muriel Austin
Pamela was born in British Guiana in 1914 and was educated in England at the Welsh Girls School in Ashford, Kent. This was followed by a year at the finishing school ‘Cyrano’ in Lausanne, Switzerland. On returning to British Guiana, she became much involved in sporting activity, representing British Guiana many times at field hockey and lawn tennis. Pamela met Dudley Lee Borrett Wickham in the period 1935-1937 while he was Clerk of the Legislative Council and, at various times in that period, also serving as ADC to two Governors. Pamela and Dudley married in 1938.
Dudley was the eldest of the two sons of Eugene Lee Wickham, and grandson of the Revd. Horace Edward Wickham. Horace Wickham, who was born in England, went out to British Guiana as a layman and later was ordained Deacon then Priest in the Anglican Church there in 1851. The ordinations were carried out at St. George's Cathedral by the Rt. Revd. William Piercy Austin. Dudley served some thirty-three years in the Colonial Civil Service, mostly in the Department of Local Government in British Guiana. He accepted the post of Federal Labour Officer for the Leeward Islands in 1943, living with his family in Antigua until 1945 when he accepted the post of District Commissioner for Berbice, British Guiana. In 1949 he was transferred to East Demerara. In 1951 he was promoted to Permanent Secretary and Commissioner of Local Government a post he held until he retired in 1960. Towards the end of his career he was honoured with an O.B.E. He died in British Guiana in July 1966 and is buried in Le Repentir cemetery.
Pamela and Dudley's only child, Martin Borrett Austin Wickham, was born in 1942 in British Guiana and was educated there at Queen’s College.
Following Dudley's death, Pamela returned to England in 1972. In that year she married for a second time, to Cecil Frederick Farrar (the divorced husband of Mabel Eileen Austin - see earlier). Pamela died in 1981 at her home in Crowhurst, Sussex.
Dudley Lee Borrett Wickham O.B.E.
Dudley was the eldest of the two sons of Eugene Lee Wickham, and grandson of the Revd. Horace Edward Wickham. Horace Wickham, who was born in England, went out to British Guiana as a layman and later was ordained Deacon then Priest in the Anglican Church there in 1851. The ordinations were carried out at St. George's Cathedral by the Rt. Revd. William Piercy Austin. Dudley served some thirty-three years in the Colonial Civil Service, mostly in the Department of Local Government in British Guiana. He accepted the post of Federal Labour Officer for the Leeward Islands in 1943, living with his family in Antigua until 1945 when he accepted the post of District Commissioner for Berbice, British Guiana. In 1949 he was transferred to East Demerara. In 1951 he was promoted to Permanent Secretary and Commissioner of Local Government a post he held until he retired in 1960. Towards the end of his career he was honoured with an O.B.E. in 1960. He died in British Guiana in July 1966 and is buried in Le Repentir cemetery.
Fred was born at the family home in Georgetown, next door to Christ Church, which is so closely associated with Farrar family history. Fred was a Churchwarden at Christ Church for many years, only resigning when he and his wife Dick went to England. As previously mentioned, he and Everald went to school in Montreal towards the end of World War I. Fred went to Lower Canada College and then to McGill University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. In 1932, he qualified as a Chartered Accountant and became a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants as well as the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Quebec. In 1932, Fred returned to British Guiana and joined Messrs. Fitzpatrick Graham & Co., and in due course became Senior Partner in Georgetown. In 1934, Fred married Mabel Eileen (‘Dick’) Austin (1908-1990), daughter of Arthur Piercy Gardiner Austin and Louisa Frances Austin, at St. Michael’s Cathedral, Bridgetown, Barbados. They had four children.
Fred and Dick divorced and he married Pamela Muriel Wickham (née Austin) (1914-1981).
463. Bruce Wilday Gardiner Austin
He was born in Barbados and educated at Charterhouse in England. He spent a short time as an overseer at a sugar estate in Guiana and then returned to Barbados, joining the firm of Gardiner Austin & Co., (now part of Barbados Shipping & Trading), later becoming the director in charge of the shipping department. Shortly before his planned marriage to Marion Fletcher (1910-1984) he fell off a thirty foot high wall at his uncle’s (Harold Bruce Gardiner Austin) house and was severely injured. The marriage was delayed until 1941. Marion went to Barbados in 1937 as a theatre sister in the General Hospital, after training in London. She was from Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. Bruce and Marion had two children.
Bruce was a Captain in the West India Regiment during World War II and, although medically unfit for active service overseas, he was adjutant of the Barbados Regiment. He succeeded his father and grandfather as Consul for Norway in Barbados, serving in this position for thirty two years, and similarly was awarded the Order of St Olaf (1st Class) for his services.
Came to Barbados in 1937 as theatre sister to the Barbados General Hospital, having trained at the London Hospital.
He was born in Southsea, England. In 1935 he married Kathleen Chase from Boston (Mass.), who died in 1984. They had two children.
Geoffrey Francis served in Italy as a Captain with the West India Regiment during World War II.
Daughter of Stephen Chase of Boston U.S.A.
Clifford John Carrington Manning
Clifford John Carrington Manning (1913-1978), a Barbados sugar planter and part owner, with Harold Bruce Gardiner Austin, of Plantation Westmoreland. During the war, John served in the Royal Air Force in England and in the USA as a flying instructor and was in Bomber Command as a pilot, flying Halifaxes in the 77th Squadron. After John died in England in 1978
468. John Austin Dickson
John Austin Dickson (1911- ) who was born in Cheltenham in England, later married Caryl Bell and they now live in Clunes, New South Wales, Australia. John was educated at Marlborough College and became a tea planter in Ceylon. Before World War II, he had already enlisted in the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps. At the outbreak of hostilities, he joining the 1st Battalion, 13th Frontier Force Rifles of the Indian Army. His unit was sent to Malaya, but against the Japanese advance, it fell back in disarray down the peninsular to Singapore, by which time, John was more or less on his own when he crossed the causeway to the island. Here, miraculously, he met Richard Vaughan, his brother-in-law, neither of whom knew the other was there. At the fall of Singapore, he together with Richard, were in Changi Jail before being sent to work on the infamous Burma railway, the two remaining together until liberated at the end of the war in 1945. He and Caryl have four children, Marianne Margaret (1948- ) who married first Barry Milner (1940- ) and second John Gibson, Elisabeth Caryl (1949- ) who married first John William Theodore van Os and second Peter Cunningham, James Patrick and Roland Charles Austin
Dick was educated at Repton School where his house and headmaster was Geoffrey Fisher, later Archbishop of Canterbury and even later a close friend of the family. At Clare College, Cambridge, Dick gained a soccer blue in three consecutive years, captaining the university. He worked for Shell in Ceylon in the early 1930s before taking up farming in Wiltshire which continued after World War II. During the war, he served in the Royal Army Service Corps. This was attached to the British 18th Division which was sent out to Singapore and disembarked just three weeks before the Japanese overran the colony. As mentioned before under John Austin Dickson, the two men met in Singapore before the ignominious surrender, and both spent some time in Changi Jail before being sent for eight months to work on and survive the horrors of the Burma railway. As was often the case after such experiences, Dick rarely spoke of these in later life.
Tom was educated at Clifton College and the School of Architecture, Bristol, becoming an architect and started his own practice in Bristol. During the war, he served with the Royal Engineers attached to the British 8th Army under General Alexander, being responsible for repairing the infrastructure destroyed by the Germans during their retreat though Italy and into Austria. He was an accomplished artist and often while waiting in a jeep or truck behind a stalled Allied advance, he had time to paint in watercolours the buildings and landscapes encountered. These evocative scenes, seen through the eyes of an architect, have now been published in a book
474. Axel Charles Dickson
Axel Charles Dickson (1905-2001) who became a tea merchant, married Edith Emma Leila Rohrbach (1908- ) and has five children, Florence Carin Leila (1938- ) who married Anders Boson Hedberg (1938- ), Claes William Axel Ernest (1942- ), Karl Thomas Oscar (1944- ) who married Birgit Christina Återvall (1948- ), Elsie Caroline (1945- ) and Harriet Edith (1949- );
475. Helen Amelie Dickson
Helen Amelie Dickson (1912-1988) who married James Arthur Ramsay (1909-1988). James was a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge and Professor of Zoology there. Helen and James have two children, Birgitta and James
James was a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge and Professor of Zoology there
477. Allan Gustav Gardiner Dickson
Allan Gustav Gardiner Dickson (1915-1984) who was in the Swedish army and married first Anne-Marie Laurell (1915-1971) and had two children Ian Robert Oscar, Bell Carin (1946- ) who adopted the name of their stepfather, Lauritzen, and second Birgitta Anna Ivarsdotter af Sillén (1919-1974) and had two children, Lars Gustaf (1945- ) and Ann Birgitta Gunhild Allansdotter (1955- ).
480. Francis Preston Bruce Austin
Known as Frank, he was born in Tacarigua, Trinidad. At the outbreak of WWI, he was attending school in England and immediately signed up. He served first in the Royal Field Artillery and was commissioned as a Second-Lieutenant in 1915. In 1918 he was appointed to the Royal Flying Corps as an Observer. He was shot down several times, but managed to escape, seemingly unscathed. Frank received the British War Medal and the Victory Medal for his service. After the war he returned to Trinidad and worked as an insurance agent. In 1923, he married Pearl Patricia Hutton (1903-1973). They had a daughter, June, born in 1924. Shortly thereafter, Frank migrated to Canada to make a better life for his family and June attended high school in Toronto. However, by the early 1930s the couple had separated. When World War II started, Frank again signed up and was appointed as a Second-Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Artillery in 1943. However, he was discharged shortly afterwards on medical grounds (apparently he had injured his spine during World War I), and returned to civilian life in Toronto. In 1947 Frank married Mary Margaritha Deary (1911- ) (known as Deary) whom he had met before the war. Frank and Deary had no children. They lived in Toronto.