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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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several years earlier with her clergyman husband, Reverend James Medland. Shortly after her arrival, her health deteriorated and she was bedridden for much of the remainder of her time in the colony. In 1851, she lived for twelve months at the convict settlement of
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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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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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In March 1857, Leakey began writing a novel, which was published in 1859 in London and in 1860 in Hobart. The novel,
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In 1847, she sailed to the British colony of Van Diemen's Land, to join her sister Eliza, who had migrated to
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was published. Her original, unabridged version remained out of print until 2019, when it was re-issued.
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O'Donoghue, F. M.; Remington, V. (revised) (2004). "Leakey, James (1775–1865), miniature painter".
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is considered a significant social document, and as one of the earliest novels to feature a
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as the main character, was a forerunner of, and influence on, the more well-known
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The broad arrow : being passages from the history of Maida Gwynnham, a lifer
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The Broad Arrow: Being Passages from the History of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer
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Writing a New World: Two Centuries of Australian Women Writers
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In 1861, Leakey established a house in Exeter to care for "
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Lyra Australis, or Attempts to Sing in a Strange Land
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Index

Caroline Woolmer Leakey
Exeter
Devon
Exeter
Devon
The Broad Arrow
The Broad Arrow
Van Diemen's Land
Tasmania
Exeter
Devon
James Leakey
Hobart Town
Port Arthur
Francis Nixon
The Broad Arrow: Being Passages from the History of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer
convict
For the Term of His Natural Life
Marcus Clarke
fallen women
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James Leakey
Caroline Woolmer Leakey
Henrietta Wilfrida Avern
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
Mary Douglas Nicol
Nigel Gray Leakey
Robert Dove Leakey

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