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Albert Edward
Harmer

Hotelier & Town Councillor

Keith Tankard
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Updated: 14 October 2009
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DEATH NOTICE: see the Master's Office, Cape Town, No 46727.

Albert Edward Harmer was born in Grahamstown in April 1873.

He studied to become an accountant and at one time was the proprietor of the Commercial Hotel in East London.

He was elected to the Town Council for Ward 1 in August 1905 but his seat was declared vacant in March 1906. He then moved to Dutywa in the Transkei.

He died of angina on 18 July 1935 while still at Dutywa. He was 62 years of age.

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