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Name: CORBETT, Margaret Winnifred 'Maggie'

Nee: sister of Edward James 'Jim' Corbett

Birth Date: 21 Jan 1874 Naini Tal, India

Death Date: 26 Dec 1963 Nyeri

Area: Nyeri

Book Reference: Barnes

General Information:

Sahib - Jim was very friendly with Percy Wyndham (later Sir Percy) who had joined the Indian Civil Service in 1886 and who had purchased a farm called the 'Kikafu' estate near Moshi. Jim purchased a share in the estate. Since Jim and Wyndham were both working in India the estate was run by Jim's old wartime friend Bellairs as overseer for 25 years, leaving in 1947. Wyndham retired in 1924 to 'Kikafu' and from 1922 until the mid 1930s Jim travelled most years to Kenya for a few months. He was a very shrewd businessman. .......retired to Kenya in 1947 and, after living with Ray Nestor and Tom Corbett, finally settled at the Outspan in the cottage 'Paxtu' that the Baden Powells had lived in. His sister Maggie came to Kenya with him from India and lived with him.
St. Peter's Nyeri cemetery - Edward James "Jim" Corbett, born in Naini Tal, India 25 July 1875, died in Nyeri 19 April 1955 - until the day breaks and the shadows flee away, and of his sister "Maggie" 26 December 1963
 

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