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Name: WALKER, Elizabeth Mary 'Bettie' , Lady
Nee: Feilding, 6th dau of 9th Earl of Denbigh, sister of Lady Victoria Fletcher
Birth Date: 22 Aug 1899 Lutterworth, Leics.
Death Date: 1982 Estcourt, KwaZulu-Natal
First Date: 1926
Profession: Hotelier's wife
Area: 'Carissa' Naro Moru, Outspan Hotel Nyeri
Married: In Kensington 26 July 1926 Eric George Sherbrooke Walker (1887-1976)
Children: Honor Sherbrooke (Hurly) (21 Mar 1929 Nyeri-3 Dec 2016 Auckland, New Zealand); Susan Mary (Hodgson) (27 Sep 1931 Nyeri-22 July 2015 Howick, S. Africa)
Book Reference: Best, Debrett, Stud, Burke, Campling
General Information:
EA Stud Book 1954 - Cattle - Ayrshires - Lady Betty Walker, Naro Moru
Campling - The Sherbrooke-Walkers stayed on at the Outspan which they ran with growing success until they sold it, together with Treetops in 1961 to Sir Malin Sorsbie …… Sorsbie sold the Outspan to Block Hotels in 1966 but meanwhile the Sherbrooke-Walkers retired to a farm at Naro Moru; later they left Kenya to live in Mallorca, where Eric died in 1976 at the age of 85. Lady Bettie died six years later at the age of 84, shortly before the 50th anniversary of Treetops