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Name: COLLINGS-WELLS, Leonard James

Nee: son of Leonard Collings Collings-Wells

Birth Date: 3 Oct 1926 Kiambu

Death Date: 23 Aug 2016 Lymington

First Date: 1926

Profession: Civil servant - agricultural officer

Married: In Rugby 1964 Lilla Mary Butler b. 14 July 1898 Colorado, d. 31 Aug 1985 Reading

Book Reference: BECM

School: Blundell's School (1940-44)

General Information:

BECM - Interview 16/3/1993 - see Leonard C. Collings-Wells - ' …… Naturally from all I had heard about Kenya and knowing that I myself had been born there, when the time came for me to think what I wanted to do with my life, my thoughts naturally turned to Kenya. I was just finishing my degree course in Agriculture at Reading University and I heard about some Colonial Agricultural Scholarships which were on offer. That was in 1947, not very long after the ending of the war ……. I was awarded a 2-year scholarship.

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