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Name: NAPIER, Florence Martha, Lady
Nee: dau of Gen John Maxwell Perceval
Birth Date: 4 Aug 1868 Ilfracombe
Death Date: 1 Dec 1946 Nairobi
Profession: Farmer
Area: Nairobi, 'Ibonia' Kiambu
Married: In London 11 July 1900 Hon. Edward Herbert Scott Napier - later 4th Baron Napier of Magdala (1861-1948)
Children: Marion Kathleen (27 May 1901 Bhavnagar, India-14 Sep 1986 Armagh); Evelyn Rose (Molony) (13 Dec 1902 Lucknow-22 Aug 1952 Nakuru); Robert John (16 June 1904 Mussoorie, India-29 Oct 1987 Penrith); Ermine Maude (25 Jan 1907 St Asaph, Flintshire-21 Feb 1995 Salisbury)
Book Reference: Oscar, Debrett, Curtis, Burke, SS
General Information:
Curtis - p. 65 - 'Laikipia Via Gilgil (2)' by The Hon. Mrs K. Armstrong - 'My mother was entitled to put her name down for a Soldier Settler farm as she was a VAD. She was lucky as she drew a 5000 acre farm on the Ngobit river half way between Nyeri and Thomson's Falls. The cheapest way to get there was to take the train to Gilgil and then walk with porters. In 1922 I went with my father with 3 of our farm labourers as porters carrying our bedding rolls and our food. .......... [more - night spent in a tree to avoid a lion] .......….
That evening we got to the top of the lowest hump of the Aberdares on the Rumuruti side. We arrived at a Colonel Arbuthnot's farm and asked if he would kindly put us up, which he did. Next day we got to the Sharpe's farm about midday. Their farm was next door to Mother's. Having explored Mother's land and found it was a grazing farm and ran down to the Ngobit river we returned home. ......…
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Mrs F.M. Napier, c/o The Dowager Lady Napier of Magdala, Hampton Court Palace, Kingston-upon-Thames - Farm 1015 - Representative, Hon E.H.S. Napier, c/o National Bank of India, Nairobi
Staying in Olga Watkins' old house (Oscar pp. 164) Oscar Watkins walked into her bedroom by mistake thinking Olga was there.