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Thomas Kirk was born in Halifax (Yorkshire) in November 1863 and came to South Africa in about 1893. He was a miller by profession and eventually became the manager of the Buffalo Milling Company . He defeated Samuel Larter in Ward 2 in the Council elections of February 1910. He was re-elected unopposed in February 1913 but his seat fell vacant in March 1914 after he had had a stroke which paralysed him. Kirk died on 2 December 1919 at the age of 56, and was buried at East London.
DEATH NOTICE: see Cape Archives, MOOC 6/9/1606, No 5100. |
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