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Name: CHALLIS, Katherine Gwyneth 'Kate', Mrs

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Nee: Beynon, dau of Henry Lawrence Norman Beynon

Birth Date: 1 Mar 1904 Rawalpindi, India

Death Date: 19 Sep 1994 Nairobi

First Date: 1921

Profession: Hotel manager

Area: Nyeri, Mombasa, Fort Portal

Married: 1. ? In Nairobi. 2. Frank Bryan Challis b. 19 May 1907 Croydon, d. 6 June 1973 Nairobi, accountant

Book Reference: Women 1/95, Cass, Errol Trzebinski, KAD, Hut

General Information:

Gazette - 5/8/1925 - Voters Register - Kenya Province - Katherine Beynon, Spinster PO Nyeri
Errol Trzebinski - article in Coastweek re Lord Erroll - ' ….. A hand-written four page letter from the late Kate Challis, who had written in bold capital letters on her opening page 'Confidential and not for publication' She then proceeded to spell out that Erroll had been shot by British Agents. As I gradually deciphered her scrawl, the following statement leapt from the pale blue vellum: "When 'White Mischief' was being filmed in Kenya, a neighbour who worked for M.I.5. [sic] during and before the war, told me that as it was now over 40 years ago, she felt able to say that Erroll [sic] was a severe security risk and he was shot, because unlike the Oswald Mosley Nazis who could be interned, Erroll's case was much more complex".
Women - article re her early life in Kenya from 1921. Hotel management in Mombasa and then Fort Portal.
Cass - running Raper & Pringle, a leather & saddlery shop with her husband.
Gazette 13 July 1973 probate for 2nd husband
FindaGrave Cremated at St Francis church, Karen

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