In the early evening of Saturday 27 March 1926, 19 men gathered at the Nairobi club to form the Oxford and Cambridge Society of Kenya. They established a formal framework to channel the social and charitable activities of the Society and later that year, under the guidance of Edward Brandis Denham, the idea of a Scholarship Scheme was conceived.
 
The Society has come a long way since, while the Scholarship Scheme remains our primary objective, its purpose has transitioned from providing partial undergraduate assistance to two fully funded post-graduate scholarships, one at either university.