An engineer by profession, he travelled extensively through EA and was particularly interested in mining projects and water divining. Built the Castle in Langata on his farm - Broadlea

Source: Mrs Nan Benson

Childhood - Nan Benson née Bradley - "After the first World War the British Government surveyed a batch of soldier-settler farms 8 miles out of Nairobi, to the west of the Town Boundary. These farms were sold off to the British Forces when they were discharged from Army Service in 1919. A number of the men who had served in East Africa were keen to remain in that part of the world and my parents, Arnold and Jeanette Bradley, bought a farm in 1927-28 from one of the original soldier-settlers. There was an agent to whom they paid instalments. The area was called Langata which, in Masai, meant Dry Place. It was not Kikuyu and the Masai only visited the area with their cattle when their grazing was short elsewhere. The four boundary posts of the 162 acres of the oblong shaped land we found only after clearing the scrub and bush.

Childhood - During the slump in the 20s [30s?] money was really tight. My mother worked for Mrs Jack Lucy who ran a Fur Shop. Mum sold the fur coats to visiting film stars and in the holidays my brother and I would have to occupy ourselves behind a screen during the clients' visits. Mrs Riley was the furrier …… The next job Mother had was after an interview with Dr Burkitt who came to visit us at the farm and stayed to tea. She took over from Miss Violet Hughes, the Surgery Sister, who wanted to return to irelend. Mother was at the Surgery for many years, eventually being receptionist for a team of doctors, including Drs Gregory and McCaldin.

Gazette 5/4/2938 - Honorary Game Warden

Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Kiambu Voters List

Gazette 24 Mar 1972 wife's probate

Gazette 1 Mar 1974 probate

Langata cemetery, Nairobi Arnold Bradley A.I.M.M. F.R.G.S. / 7.2.1886 - 20.10.1973 and Jean S Bradley / 14.2.87 - 16.3.71

UK Foreign and Oversea Registers of British Subjects for marriage