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Name: KIRKPATRICK, Clara Agnes, Mrs
Nee: Alexander
Birth Date: 17 Aug 1877 Ajmer, Rajasthan, India
Death Date: 8 Feb 1952 Dartford, Kent
First Date: 1904
Profession: Hotelier
Area: Nairobi, Molo, Limuru
Married: 1. In Malton, Yorks. 6 Aug 1898 Charles Baldwin Clutterbuck (1871-1957) (div.1914); 2. In Greater London 15 Dec 1914 Lt.-Col. Henry Fearnley Kirkpatrick (1876-1918)
Children: 1. Richard Alexander (1900 Scarborough-1927); Beryl (Markham) (26 Oct 1902 Ashwell, Rutland-3 Aug 1986 Nairobi) 2. Ivone Alexander (8 Apr 1916 Steyning-26 Jan 1932 Windsor, motor accident); Sir James Alexander (24 Oct 1918-3 Apr 1954 Limuru, suicide)
Book Reference: Markham, Debrett, Trzebinski Pioneers
General Information:
1905/6 fell in love with Maj. Henry Fearnley Kirkpatrick an early settler - left Kenya in 1906 with son Dickie for 17 years
Mrs Kirkpatrick returned to Nairobi in 1923 with Beryl's two half-brothers ....... Rented Karen Blixen's old manager's house on Mbagathi Ridge 'for about a year'. She is manifestly a pathetic figure although she was to go on to gain a reputation as 'a merry widow type'. Whatever happiness Clara had had with Harry Kirkpatrick was short-lived. She divorced Clutt in 1914, married Harry next day but he died of war wounds in 1918. ........... In May 1923 she went to Molo and an anchorage with Dickie for her smaller sons.
Trzebinski - Ran Soy Hotel (Club) in late 1920s
Gazette - 17/4/1928 - Bankruptcy Ordinance - First meeting - Mrs C.A. Kirkpatrick, High View, Limuru - Creditors' petition.
Gazette 8 Apr 1952 probate