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Leakey, and his first wife, Elizabeth. ... in 1926, when Elizabeth died ... She married a South African colleague, Bremer Hofmeyr, in 1946. ... in ... 1954 ... Mau Mau fighters ... attacked her father's farm, killed her stepmother and abducted her father. ... buried alive, in a shallow grave on Mount Kenya. ... she lost her eldest brother, Nigel Leakey, in 1941 at Colito, where he won the Victoria Cross. Three years after Bremer's death, in 1993, their elder son, Murray, was killed in a car accident in Johannesburg.
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Agnes Leakey, worker for reconciliation: born Limuru, Kenya 8 May 1917; married 1946 Bremer Hofmeyr (died 1993; one son, and one son deceased); died Johannesburg 1 December 2006. ... Agnes Leakey was born in Limuru, Kenya, in 1917, the youngest child of Gray Leakey, cousin of the anthropologist Louis
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Leakey was best known for his delicate miniatures, painted in oils on ivory. These brought him a local celebrity. In the Exeter Guildhall there is a portrait by him of Henry Blackhall, mayor of Exeter; also a copy by him of Reynolds's portrait of
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Elizabeth Hubbard Woolmer was born on 20 December 1793. ... On 28 August 1815 she married the artist James Leakey (1775-1865) at St. Sidwell's Church, Exeter (2). They had eleven children. ... Caroline Woolmer Leakey
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Leakey established himself at Exeter, painting portraits, miniatures and landscapes. He also produced small interiors with groups of rustic figures and
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purchased one of those for Β£500. With the exception of a time in London from 1821 to 1825, during which he was intimate with
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NIGEL GRAY LEAKEY ... Died 19 May 1941 Age 28 years old ... Son of Arundell Gray A. and Elizabeth Leakey, of Kiganjo, Kenya.
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O'Donoghue, F. M.; Remington, V. (revised) (2004). "Leakey, James (1775–1865), miniature painter".
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By his marriage in 1815 with Eliza Hubbard Woolmer, Leakey had eleven children. They included
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Exeter
Devon
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Sir Francis Baring
Thomas Lawrence
David Wilkie

Royal Academy
John Rolle Walter
John Haddy James
Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital
Samuel Cousins
Caroline Leakey
Leakey family
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James Leakey
Caroline Woolmer Leakey
Henrietta Wilfrida Avern
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
Mary Douglas Nicol
Nigel Gray Leakey
Robert Dove Leakey
Maj. Gen. Arundell Rea Leakey
Colin Louis Avern Leakey
Meave Epps
Richard Erskine Frere Leakey
Philip Leakey

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