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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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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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research project has been the main program behind some of the most notable hominid fossil discoveries of the past two decades, the most recent being
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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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Leakey has promoted an initiative to place digital models of fossil collections in a virtual laboratory,
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In 1993, Leakey joined her mother as a co-leader of paleontological expeditions in northern Kenya. The
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O'Donoghue, F. M.; Remington, V. (revised) (2004). "Leakey, James (1775–1865), miniature painter".
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and a Bachelor of Science degree in geology and biology from the
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in 1972, the same year that her paleoanthropologist grandfather,
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Nairobi
Kenya
United World College of the Atlantic
University of Bristol
University College, London
Prince Emmanuel de Merode
Richard Leakey
Meave Epps
House of Merode
Paleontology
née
paleontologist
anthropologist
fossils
Nairobi
Kenya
conservationist
politician
Richard Leakey
paleoanthropologist
Meave Leakey
Louis Leakey
hominoid
International Baccalaureate
United World College of the Atlantic
University of Bristol
PhD
University College, London
Koobi Fora
Kenyanthropus platyops

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