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Name: BENSON, Ethel Dorothea 'Doe', Mrs
Nee: Williams, youngest child of dau of George Arthur and Isabel Williams
Birth Date: 1907 Harrismith, Orange Free State
Death Date: 1989 Blackburn
First Date: 1918
Last Date: 1947
Profession: Secretary
Area: Kabete, Nairobi, Kisumu
Married: 1932 Thomas Godfrey Benson (1899-1993)
Children: Christopher John (1935, adopted); David Reginald (1945. adopted); John William (1945)
Book Reference: Benson
General Information:
Benson - Arrived in Kenya with her mother Isabel in 1918. …….. By 1927 she was able to secure the Secretarial post in the Kenya Uganda Railway Offices which she kept until …. Marriage at the end of 1932. …… The remarks of the Superintendent of the Line whose private secretary she had been pays tribute to her valuable services and adds. "I think I am right in saying that this official certificate is the best I have yet given to any member of staff on leaving the service." ….. In 1930 after leave in UK and Ireland she returned as private secretary to the Superintendent of the Line, Mr Browning .and lived at first at the Grosvenor Hotel. After her marriage she worked at the Jeanes School with her husband
Gazette 16 Nov 1936 Voters List 1936 - Dorothea Benson, Married woman Jeanes School, Kabete