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Name: HOLLAND, Ewart Josiah
Birth Date: 6 Aug 1885 Market Drayton, Shropshire
Death Date: 24 Dec 1964 Durban
First Date: 1923
Last Date: 1926
Profession: Farmer
Married: In Willesden 1923 Hepzibah Beatrice 'Effie' MacGillivray (sister of Hilton MacGillivray), b. 1889 King William's Town, S. Africa, d. 1978 Durban
Children: None
General Information:
In 1923 Effie married Ewart Holland, an English farmer whom she met on a voyage to Britain. The couple moved to Natal in 1926 after farming for three years in Kenya. They farmed near Port Shepstone until Mr Holland's death in 1964. Effie's only sister, Frances, married Sir Charles Smith, sugar magnate, philanthropist, politician and friend of General Smuts.