Frederick Moir (African Lakes Corporation)

Frederick Lewis Maitland Moir (Edinburgh, 1852-1939) was a trader, road-builder and writer in Nyasaland, East Africa, involved in the African Lakes Corporation. In authorship he is known as F. L. M. Moir.

Life

He was born in Edinburgh the son of Dr John Moir and his wife Margaret Maitland.[1] The family lived at 52 Castle Street in Edinburgh's First New Town.[2]

He was accompanied in Africa by his older brother John William Moir (1851-1940) who was also an ivory trader and road-builder.[3][4]

In 1885 he married Jane Fordyce Beith daughter of Gilbert Beith MP for Glasgow. They had three daughters.[5]

He retired to 16 Kensington Gate in Kelvinside in Glasgow.[6]

He was great uncle to Father Maitland Moir.

Works

  • After Livingstone. An African trade romance The history of the African Lakes Corporation. With plates 1923

References

  1. ↑ http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/alexander-l-moir/moir-genealogy-and-collateral-lines-with-historical-notes-rio/page-20-moir-genealogy-and-collateral-lines-with-historical-notes-rio.shtml
  2. ↑ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1852
  3. ↑ The story of Nyasaland told in a series of historical pictures National Archives of Rhodesia and Nyasaland - 1951 "The Moir Brothers Frederick Lewis Maitland Moir and John William Moir. The two brothers made their first acquaintance with Central Africa in 1877, when they volunteered to build a road from Dar es Salaam, then a mere village, to Lake Nyasa "
  4. ↑ http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/94727?rskey=L6MUK6&result=32
  5. ↑ http://www.thepeerage.com/p42977.htm#i429770
  6. ↑ Glasgow Post Office Directory 1911
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