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Name: BRODHURST-HILL, Alice Evelyn Maude, Mrs
Nee: Cooper, first cousin of T.A.M. Nash - author of 'Zoo without Bars'
Birth Date: 1883, bapt. at Chiddingfold 1 Jan 1884
Death Date: 26 Apr 1968 Bury St Edmunds
First Date: 1920
Profession: At the helm of Turbo-Kipkarren EAWL at its inauguration in 1938. Farmed near Mt. Elgon and Turbo
Area: Turbo-Kipkarren, 1920 Olemusogai
Married: In Chiddingfold 1 Aug 1906 Arthur Brodhurst-Hill (1878-1963)
Author: So This is Kenya; The Youngest Lion (as Eve Bache)
Book Reference: Eldoret, Seventy, Brodhurst-Hill, Land, SS
General Information:
Brodhurst-Hill - In our early days on the farm Charles was often ill; he had come out to the country with dysentery .... so I took what I could off his hands, especially the coffee planting, and used to spend hours in the shamba with a shooting stick and an enormous white umbrella. One of our neighbours, who saw the umbrella gyrating about day after day, was always teasing me about my hard work, and declared that I kept the boys in order by terrifying them out of their wits.
Land - Brodhurst Hill Brothers leased 5546 acres at Kipkarren, Soldier Settlement Scheme WW1
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Capt. R. Brodhurst-Hill, 19 Cornwall Road, Dorchester - Farm 853 ?? Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Capt. A. Brodhurst-Hill, 19 Cornwall Road, Dorchester - Farm 875
Nash - Zoo Without Bars - "It was in 1920, only 11 years before our visit, that my cousins went out to settle in Kenya. The railway only reached Londiani so they had to complete the last 63 miles to Eldoret by post-carts, each drawn by 8 trotting oxen. But those and subsequent years have already been described by Evelyn in her 2 books - "The Youngest Lion" under the pseudonym of Eve Bache, and "So This is Kenya" under her own name, Brodhurst-Hill.
We found them living in a nice thatched farmhouse with an outbuilding for visitors, surrounded by a most attractive garden, and beyond, some acres of coffee.
Evelyn, who has been dead many years, was much older than myself and, although great fun, had a distinct sense of propriety. In the garden there were 2, well separated little huts, heavily screened by shrubs, and each housing a pit latrine, one for Ladies and one for Gentlemen. .….….….
Evelyn, a parson's daughter, had a strong sense of duty towards her employees, and daily went round the staff quarters ministering to the sick wives and children. They loved her dearly but I was glad I was not one of her patients: her remedy for coughs was a spoonful of kerosene in milk, and her patients were convinced of its efficacy.