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Leakey, and his first wife, Elizabeth. ... in 1926, when Elizabeth died ... She married a South African colleague, Bremer Hofmeyr, in 1946. ... in ... 1954 ... Mau Mau fighters ... attacked her father's farm, killed her stepmother and abducted her father. ... buried alive, in a shallow grave on Mount Kenya. ... she lost her eldest brother, Nigel Leakey, in 1941 at Colito, where he won the Victoria Cross. Three years after Bremer's death, in 1993, their elder son, Murray, was killed in a car accident in Johannesburg.
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Agnes Leakey, worker for reconciliation: born Limuru, Kenya 8 May 1917; married 1946 Bremer Hofmeyr (died 1993; one son, and one son deceased); died Johannesburg 1 December 2006. ... Agnes Leakey was born in Limuru, Kenya, in 1917, the youngest child of Gray Leakey, cousin of the anthropologist Louis
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She learnt how to construct archaeological illustrations and it is her illustrations that are included in "The Stone Age Cultures of Kenya Colony" published by her husband in 1931. The book describes excavations in 1926–7 and 1928–9.
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Elizabeth Hubbard Woolmer was born on 20 December 1793. ... On 28 August 1815 she married the artist James Leakey (1775-1865) at St. Sidwell's Church, Exeter (2). They had eleven children. ... Caroline Woolmer Leakey
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She died in 1993 leaving two children. The gorge that she had discovered, Frida Leakey Korongo (and was named for her) was found to be the location of ancient hominids (
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NIGEL GRAY LEAKEY ... Died 19 May 1941 Age 28 years old ... Son of Arundell Gray A. and Elizabeth Leakey, of Kiganjo, Kenya.
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Her husband's behaviour was criticised by family and friends when he left her just after the birth of their son
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that was named "FLK" for "Frida Leakey Korongo". This gorge would be an outstanding source of human fossils.
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O'Donoghue, F. M.; Remington, V. (revised) (2004). "Leakey, James (1775–1865), miniature painter".
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She married Louis Leakey and their first child was a daughter Priscilla Muthoni Leakey.
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During the war she organised billeting at Girton College. She was elected chair of the
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in December 1933. In 1936, she divorced him for his infidelity and he quickly married
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Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings
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in Cambridge. She then went to Kent where she worked teaching French at
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She was born in 1902 and her father, Henry Averne, sold cork in
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in Cambridgeshire and she was elected as an independent
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Index

Frida Avern

British
Newnham College
Louis Leakey
Colin Leakey
Louis Leakey
Women's Institute
County Councillor
Reigate
Sorbonne
Newnham College
Benenden School
Olduvai gorge
Colin
Mary Leakey
Women's Institute
county councillor
homo erectus
hippopotamus





"Leakey, Henrietta Wilfrida (1902–1993)"
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10.1093/ref:odnb/52219
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