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Name: HILL-WILLIAMS, Kathleen Anna 'Tuppence'

Nee: dau. of John and Gertrude Hill-Williams

Birth Date: 8.7.1906 Fulham, London

Death Date: 2004 Westminster, London

First Date: 1908

Profession: Farmer, hotelier. Moved to Sportsman's Arms, Nanyuki

Area: 'Marindas', Molo and Nanyuki

Book Reference: Gillett, Nicholls

General Information:

Member of the Oxford Movement
Midday Sun I wondered whether two women on their own in an outback kind of place might have had trouble with roughs and toughs and drunks. 'Not much', Tuppence said. 'We learned to cope.' I could believe it; Tuppence, tall, deliberate of speech and with a good handicap at polo, would not have been easily ruffled. The landlord's worst troubles, she said, apart from the normal crises of hoteliers, came from certain units of the British Army stationed in Nanyuki. Once a military lorry drove up at dead of night and carried off all the furniture on the veranda.'
Nicholls - Sportsman's Arms - run by Mrs Hill-Williams (Mrs Hilly-Billy) and her daughter Kathleen (Twopence) and for 250 shillings you could rent a cottage for a month. …. Twopence became a member of the Oxford Group, a movement strong in Kenya at this time, and refused to sell alcohol at the hotel. Financial exigency forced her to relax her principles, but she still insisted on the Quiet Hours with staff each afternoon - an irritant to guests who had to cope with newcomers unable to command attention.
In her later years she lived in an old people's home in St John's Wood, London.

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