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Name: BENN, Edward Hugh

Birth Date: 1881 Bahia, Brazil

Death Date: 15 Apr 1945 Naivasha

First Date: 1930

Profession: Farmer, Naivasha

Area: Nairobi

Married: In Kensington 1907 Jane Ethel Musson b. 1881

Children: Christine Margaret 'Peggy' (Banks, Bucknall, Frampton) (21 July 1909 Bahia, Brazil); Jack Musson (3.9.1910 Crawley, Sussex-25 Jan 1992 S. Africa); Kathleen Joan (1908 Buenos Aires-21 Sep 1960 Eastbourne)

Book Reference: Red 31, Barnes

General Information:

Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Voters List Rift Valley
Naivasha cemetery Edward Hugh Benn / Bahia / 1881 - 1945 / R.I.P.
Frampton: In 1928 Father had bought 2000 acres of land on the Kinangop north of Nairobi. He and Jack developed it into a sheep and cattle farm, first trying to fence the boundary against the herds of zebra and kongoni who rushed at will over the plateau. They were in partnership with a well known settler Mervyn Ray who lived further along the Kinangop escarpment. They put in a sheep dip and built a stone house under the escarpment, feeding spring water down to the house in a pipeline by gravity. As most settlers did, they built the house themselves with the help of local Africans and an Indian fundi. The nearest neighbours were quite close, Tiny Kingsford and the Lodges. The latter were in their 70s and had come over from India to settle. Tiny, a bachelor, was in England in 1931 getting married to Cecily Butler who was to become a lifelong friend of mine. The other neighbours were a retired district commissioner who had arrived in Kenya in the early part of the century. They had one daughter about the same age as me. She played the cello quite dreadfully but was very pretty and sweet. Their name was Pickford.

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