Collection of extracts gathered by Laurence Fleming during the process of writing his two-volume work Last children of the Raj. Extracts detail the lives of contributors growing up in British India in the form of short memoirs. This collection includes some not used in the final work.
The number of extracts included in the collection is given in brackets after each description.
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MARGARET TAYLOR: Father was in a chemical and dye company, later in British Army. Lived in Bombay [Mumbai], 1930s and 1940s. (1)
DAVID MICHAEL THOM: Born Quetta 1938, son of Reginald Wallace Thom MBE, Divisional Mechanical Engineer, North Western Railway and his second wife Kathleen. Half-brother to Barry Bryson. Presentation Convent, Rawalpindi. Karachi Grammar School. Hardeys School, Dorchester. Heles School, Exeter. (2)
GRETA THOM: Born Rawalpindi 1930, daughter of Francis Thom, Assistant Mechanical Engineer, North Western Railway, and his wife Audrey Grassby. Auckland House School, Simla. (2)
BRYAN THOMAS: Travelled to India in 1940, schooled in Calcutta and Darjeeling. (1)
VALERIE THURLEY: Born Bangalore 1934, daughter of S.J. Thurley OBE, Principal of Lawrence College, Ghora Gali, and his wife Doreen McLeish Game. Lawrence College, Ghora Gali. (1)
CAROL TITUS: Born Moradabad, 1924. Daughter of missionaries in the American Methodist Episscopal Board of Missions. (1)
LAVENDER TODD: Born Quetta 1926, younger daughter of Sir Herbert Todd KCIE ICS, Resident for the Madras States 1943, Resident for the Eastern States 1944 (later Chief Representative, Iraq Petroleum Company, Baghdad) and his wife Nancy, second daughter of Col. A.F. Pullen, Commanding Officer, Royal Artillery, Rangoon (awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal and the Red Crescent for her work in the Second World War). Godolphin School, Salisbury. ‘Sherfield’, Delhi and Simla. (4)
JOAN TOFT: Born Eastbourne 1926, eldest daughter of Walter Toft, Senior Partner, Price, Waterhouse, Peat & Company, Calcutta, and his wife Kathleen Kearney. Chartwell, Westgate-on-Sea. St Bridget’s, Bexhill. The New School, Calcutta and Darjeeling. (4)
PATRICIA TOFT: Born Cowley, Middlesex 1930, second daughter of Walter Toft, sister of above. The New School, Darjeeling. Nazareth Convent, Ootacamund. Wessex School of Dancing, Bournemouth. International Ballet School, London. (2)
SALLY TOFT: Born Cowley, Middlesex 1934, youngest daughter of Walter Toft, sister of above. The New School, Darjeeling. Lowther College, Abergele. (1)
MARK TULLY: Born Calcutta 1935, eldest son of William Tully, CBE, Gillanders, Arbuthnot, Calcutta and his wife Patience Betts. The New School, Darjeeling. Marlborough College, Wiltshire. (1)
BETSY VICKERS: Born Windsor 1927, daughter of O. Lionel Vickers, Methodist Missionary Society, and his wife Bertha Isabella Aitken. Hebron High School, Coonoor. Edgehill College, Bideford. Hebron again. (4)
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NICOLE WALBY: Born Antwerp 1926, elder daughter of Herbert Walby DSO MC Croix-de-Guerre, Manager of Jenson & Nicholson Ltd (paints, varnishes etc) Calcutta, and his wife Marie Magdeleine Ville. The New School, Darjeeling. Slade School of Art, London. Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. (3)
ARTHUR WHITELOCK: No personal information available. Accout of a train journey across South India, 1933. (1)
THEON WILKINSON MBE: Born Cawnpore 1924, son of Harold Arthur Wilkinson CBE, Managing Director of Begg, Sutherland & Company Ltd (Agents for Cotton, Electricity, Sugar etc) and his wife Ruby Georgina Butterworth. Radley College, Abingdon. St Paul’s School, Darjeeling. (2)
FRANCES WINDRAM: Born Holywood Co. Down 1929, Daughter of Major William Windram, Royal Inniskillings, and his wife Jessie Hadland. Hebron School, Coonoor. Wellesley School, Naini Tal. Hallet War School, Naini Tal. (2)
SHEILA WRIGHT-NEVILLE: Born London 1927, elder daughter of Colonel V.R. Wright-Neville, 5th/2nd Punjab Regiment, and his wife, Gwenneth Northe. The Old Vicarage School, Richmond, Surrey. The New School, Calcutta and Darjeeling. Secretarial College, London. (8)
Fleming Papers: Box 4
Collection of extracts gathered by Laurence Fleming during the process of writing his two-volume work Last children of the Raj. Extracts detail the lives of contributors growing up in British India in the form of short memoirs. This collection includes some not used in the final work.
The number of extracts included in the collection is given in brackets after each description.
1 Published work: The story of my trek out of Burma – 1942, Michael Porter (Burmah Oil Society, 1997).
List of Laurence Fleming’s contributors:
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TIMOTHY O’BRIEN: Born Shillong 1929 elder son of Captain Brain Palliser Tighe O’Brien, 2nd Battalion 8th Gurkha Rifles, and his wife Elinor Laura Mackenzie. Wellington College Berkshire. Corpus Christi, Cambridge. (1)
SHIRLEY ODLING: Born Kalimpong 1926, third daughter of Norman Odling, Architect, and his wife Bunty Graham, daughter of Dr Graham of the Homes. Educated at the Homes, Battle Abbey, Sussex and Sherborne School for Girls, Dorset.
IAN O’LEARY: Born Oxford 1927, son of Michael George O’Leary MBE Lieut. Colonel 8/2 Punjab Regiment, and his wife Daphne Sylvia Osmaston. Hallett War School, Naini Tal. Royal Indian Military College, Dehra Dun. (3)
TONY ORCHARD: Born Mombasa, Kenya 1926, elder son of G.L. Orchard, Burmah-Shell Oil Company, and his wife Dorothy Watkins. The New School, Calcutta and Darjeeling. Hilton College, Natal, South Africa. University of London. (4)
GILLIAN OWERS: Born London 1927, only child of Bernard Charles Owers, Sinclair, Murray of Calcutta, and his wife Millicent Ellacott Pethick. The New School, Calcutta and Darjeeling. School of Art, Calcutta. Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford. (2)
DESMOND PAILTHORPE: Born at Sea 1922. (2)
BETTY PAKENHAM-WALSH: Born Rangoon 1926, daughter of Wilfrid Pakenham- Walsh, ICS and his wife Gwen Elliott. Uplands, Heathfield, Sussex. Tormead, Guildford, Surrey. Mrs Ancrum’s Class in Lahore and Gulmarg. (2)
JOHN PAKENHAM-WALSH CB QC: Born Rangoon 1928, younger brother of above. Bradfield College, Berkshire. University College, Oxford. (1)
BLAKE PINNELL: Born St Leonard’s-on-Sea 1925, elder son of L.G. Pinnell CIE ICS District Commissioner for Chittagong, and his wife Margaret Coxwell. Hurst Court School, Ore, Sussex. The New School, Calcutta and Darjeeling. University of Capetown, South Africa. Balliol College, Oxford. (1)
MARTIN PINNELL: Born Darjeeling 1928, younger brother of above. The New School, Calcutta and Darjeeling. Balliol College, Oxford. (2)
RICHARD PLOWDEN: No information available. (1)
SHIRLEY POCOCK: Born Cawnpore 1925, younger daughter of Major S.R. Pocock CBE MC, The Leinster Regiment, The Machine Gun Corps and The Welch Regiment and his wife Florence Albin. Hallet War School, Naini Tal. Sophia College, Bombay. (3)
MARION PORTER: No information available. (1)
DENNIS POWELL: Born Toungoo 1931, son of Valentine Murray Powell, Chief Operating Superintendent, Burma Railways, and his wife Kathleen Kendall. Bishop Cotton’s School, Simla. Felsted School, Essex. (3)
ANNE PROWSE: Born Ootacamund 1935, elder daughter of Dr Arthur Skardon (Keith) Prowse, Medical Director, The Assam Oil Company, and his wife Joan Willoughby Grant. The New School, Darjeeling. St Hilda’s, Ootacamund. Effingham Hall School, Bexhill. (1)
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DONALD RAMSAY-BROWN: Born 1917, Hyderabad. Father was vicar of St. George’s Church, Hyderabad. (1)
PATRICIA RAYNES: Born Rangoon 1932, elder daughter of Charles Raynes, MC King’s Police Medal, Deputy Inspector General, Burma Police, and his wife Doreen Heenan. Hallett War School, Naini Tal. (2)
ALEC REDWOOD: Born Bangalore 1921. Mother and father were both missionaries. Attended Clarence School, Hyderabad (built by his father, 1922), 1926-28; Hebron School, Coonor and Breeks Memorial School, Ootacamund. (1)
PETER ROBB: Born Ceylon 1927 son of James Alexander Robb, General Manager of ESSO, Ceylon and Bengal, and his wife Dorothy Louisa Bicknell. The New School, Calcutta and Darjeeling. King William College, Isle of Man. (3)
RONALD RULE: Born Singapore 1918, son of Malcolm Rule, Operator and Accountant with the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company in Batavia, Singapore and Penang, and his wife Margaret Fitzpatrick. Bishop Cotton’s School, Bangalore. Breeks Memorial School, Ootacamund. Deal School, Kent. (3)
HENRY SCHOLBERG: Born Darjeeling 1921. Parents were both misionaries in Central Provinces. Woodstock School. (1)
GORDON SHULL: Born Bulsar, Bombay, 1925, son of Chalmer and Mary Shull, missionaries of the Church of the Brethren. Woodstock School. (1)
THELMA SMART: Born Jhansi 1929, daughter of Major J.W. Smart, Royal Army Ordinance Corps, and his wife Leah Mary Carvalho. Convent of Jesus and Mary, Murree. St Mary’s Convent, Naini Tal. (1)
PADDY SMITH: Born Calcutta 1931, son of Francis Arthur Smith MBE CEng FIMechE. Chief Mechanical Engineer, Bengal and Assam Railway, and his wife Lilian Evelyn. Loreto Convent, Darjeeling. St Paul’s School, Darjeeling. Campbell College, Northern Ireland. (1)
HELENE SPINKS: Born Peshawar, 1930. Lived in Kashmir and Baluchistan. (1)
HAZEL SQUIRE: Born Lahore 1928, eldest daughter of Sir Giles Squire, Indian Political Service and future Ambassador to Afghanistan, and his wife Irene Arnold, teacher at a Muslim Girls’ School in Hyderabad. Headington School, Oxford. Royal College of Music. (3)
KRISTIN SQUIRE: Born Mount Abu 1930, second daughter of Sir Giles Squire, younger sister of above. Auckland House School, Simla. Badminton School, Bristol. King’s College of Household and Social Science, London. (2)
STAR STAUNTON: Born Assam Jungle, 1922, only child of Major Staunton and his first wife. Convent in Belgium. (16)
PATRICK HUGH STEVENAGE: Born Bangalore 1922, younger son of Emanuel Anthony Stevenage, Captain, Senior Assistant Surgeon, Indian Medical Department, and his wife Helena Augusta Rylands. Loyola College, Madras. (2)
BEULAH STIDSTON: Born Lahore 1933, only child of Dr Dudley Stidston, North Western Railway and Major Indian Army, and his wife Elizabeth Violet Brown-James. St Mary’s School, Poona. (4)
RUTH SUTHERLAND: Born Taxila, Punjab, 1927. Daughter fof William Sutherland, Missionary, United Presbyterian Church of North America, and his wife Bertha. St. Denys, Murree; Woodstock, Landour, Mussoorie. (2)
Fleming Papers: Box 3
Collection of extracts gathered by Laurence Fleming during the process of writing his two-volume work Last children of the Raj. Extracts detail the lives of contributors growing up in British India in the form of short memoirs. This collection includes some not used in the final work.
The number of extracts included in the collection is given in brackets after each description.
List of contributors:
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LAVENDER JAMIESON: Born Edinburgh 1914, younger daughter of Henry William Jamieson, Chief Auditor, Great Indian Peninsular Railway, and his wife Lorna Grieve. School Matron. (1)
BARBARA ANN JARDINE: Born Peshawar NWFP 1925, eldest daughter of Lionel Jardine ICS, serving in Lucknow, Peshawar, Dik, Kashmir, Central Provinces and Baroda, and his wife Marjorie. Sherfield School, Simla. Sophia College, Bombay. (3)
JOSE MARGARET JOHNSON: Born Rawalpindi, 1922. Dairy of wartime in Burma and India (after 1942). (2)
JOHN JUDGE: Born Sydney 1928, eldest son of ‘Mick’ Judge CIE MD of Govan Bros Ltd., Delhi & Rampur UP. Sheikh Bagh School, Srinagar. Aitchison College, Lahore. Bradfield College, Berkshire. (2)
DESMOND KELLY MD FRCP FRCPsych: Born Loilem, Shan States 1934. Son of Lt. Col. Norman Kelly OBE, Burma Frontier Service and his wife Betty Megarry. Hallett War School, Naini Tal. King’s School, Canterbury. (2)
MAEVE KELLY: Born Loilem, Shan States, 1933, sister of above. Hallett War School, Naini Tal. Felixstowe College, Suffolk. (1)
NETTIE LAMONT: Born Glasgow 1926, eldest daughter of Donald Lamont MBE, Shipping Engineer with Simons & Co. Clydeside, and his wife Jane Beattie Wilson. Hebron High School, Coonoor. (3)
JOHN LANGLEY: Born Calcutta 1931 only child of Horace Vernon Langley, Eastern Bengal and Assam Bengal Railways, and his wife Mary Audrey Clark. The New School, Calcutta and Darjeeling. Convent, Haflong. Gresham’s School, Holt, Norfolk. Royal Naval Air Service. Bournemouth School of Art. School of Architecture, Oxford. (8)
ELIZABETH LEIGH: Born Preston 1939, eldest child of Cecil Leigh, Agent, Imperial Bank of India and his wife Eve Ashcroft. Acton Reynold School, Shropshire. (2)
JEREMY LEMMON: Born Calcutta 1935, third child of Richard Dennis Lemmon, Merchant, and his wife Dorothy Constance Harris. Hilltop School, Kalimpong. Northaw, Kent. Harrow School, Middlesex. Christ Church, Oxford. (1)
NANCY LLOYD: Born 1918, youngest daughter of Sir Idwal Lloyd ICS and his wife. Teaching Diploma ARCM. (4)
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DONALD MACKENZIE: Born 1929, Carron Tea Estate. Short descriptive piece of his young life, written by his widow, Mrs Betty Mackenzie. (1)
JONQUIL MALLINSON: Born Jubbulpore 1930, elder daughter of Lt. Col. Ernest (Simon) Mallinson, 17th Dogra Regiment, Indian Army, and his wife Flora (Pat) Carson. St Joan’s School, Srinagar. Rosemead, Littlehampton. (1)
ORIOLE MALLINSON: Born Srinagar, 1932, younger sister of above and niece of Miss Muriel Mallinson MBE CMS, Principal Sheikh Bagh School for Girls, Srinagar. St Joan’s School, Srinagar. Hereford House, Ilfracombe. Limura Girls School, Nairobi. (1)
ROBIN MALLINSON: Born Srinagar (on a houseboat) 1928, elder brother of above and nephew of Sir Charles Carson KCIE OBE ICS, Finance Minister in Gwalior. Breeks Memorial School, Ootacamund. Fettes College, Edinburgh. University College, Oxford. (1)
ANN MARINDIN: Born London 1934, elder daughter of F.J. Marindin, Burmah-Shell, and his wife Marcia Gordon Firebrace. St Hilda’s, Ootacamund. (2)
ROBERT MATTHEWS: Born Delhi 1931, second son of Arnold Monteath Matthews, Professor of English at Forman Christian College, Lahore and his wife Alys Belletti. Lawrence College, Ghora Gali. (4)
STEPHANIE MEREDITH: No information available. (1)
MOLLY MILNE: Born Rangoon 1927, eldest child of Eric Ivan Milne, Traffic Manager, Burma Railways, and his wife Doris Ransford. Pinewood, Crowborough, Sussex. BBA School, Rangoon. Hallett War School, Naini Tal. Eastbourne School of Domestic Science. (3)
ANN MITCHELL: Born Saharanpur U.P. 1928, daughter of Harold Mitchell CIE, Indian Police, Deputy Inspector General, Allahabad, and his wife Edna Evadne Bion. Woodstock School, Landour. (2)
MICHAEL MULLER: Born Murree 1930, son of Colonel Hugo Muller, Indian Army, and his wife Veronica Buck. Sheikh Bagh Preparatory School, Srinagar. Wellington College, Berkshire. Jesus College, Cambridge. (4)
MALCOLM MURPHY: Born Madras 1920, son of Joe Murphy, Senior Chargeman, Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway, and Company Sergeant Major Auxiliary Force (India), and his wife Louise Magee. St Mary’s European High School, Madras. (1)
Fleming Papers: Box 2
Collection of extracts gathered by Laurence Fleming during the process of writing his two-volume work Last children of the Raj. Extracts detail the lives of contributors growing up in British India in the form of short memoirs. This collection includes some not used in the final work.
The number of extracts included in the collection is given in brackets after each description.
List of contributors:
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ERNEST YOUNG CAMPBELL: Born Sialkot 1917, second son of James Garfield Campbell, and his wife Mabel Young, Missionaries under United Presbyterian Church. Woodstock School, Mussoorie. Wooster College, Ohio. (2)
DONALD CATTO: Born Quetta 1921, son of Major Herbert Catto, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, and his wife. Infants Boarding School, Murree. Bishop Cotton’s Day School, Bangalore. Lawrence Schools at Lovedale and Ghora Gali. (4)
BILL CHARLES: Born Poona 1928, son of James Meadows Charles, Sergeant in British Army, 1914–18, later Planter, fruit and dairy Farmer, and his wife, Ethel Gladys Smith. Breeks Memorial School, Ootacamund. (6)
MARGARET COOPER: Born 1931. No further information available. Text gives memories of Quetta earthquake, 1935. (1)
YOMA CROSFIELD: Born Broadstairs 1936, only child of Leonard Crosfield, Burmah and Assam Oil Companies, and his wife Margaret Daniell, Chair of Training, Girl Guides, All-India. The New School, Darjeeling. Effingham House, Sussex. Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. (7)
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HENRY DALLON: No information available. (2)
GWENDOLYN DAUBNEY: No information available. (1)
ISABEL DAVIDSON: Born Glasgow 1936, only child of John Davidson, Drilling Engineer with Burmah and Assam Oil Companies, and his wife Agnes Calder. Ida Villa, Darjeeling. Laurel Bank School, Glasgow. Glasgow and West of Scotland College of Domestic Science. (3)
ROY DE VANDRE: No information available. (1)
GEORGE DUNBAR: Born India 1915. Lived King’s Norton, Birmingham. (1)
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SHEILA FERGUSON: Born Darjeeling 1926, daughter of Lt. Col. Robert Ferguson, Northern Bengal Mounted Rifles, Tea Planter in Dooars 1909–1944, and his wife. Battle Abbey, Sussex. The New School, Darjeeling. (4)
DAN FERRIS: Born Calcutta 1940, son of Edward Ferris, East India Railway Company, and his wife Iris, Commissioner for Training in Bengal, Bharat Scouts and Guides. St Paul’s School, Darjeeling. Highgate School, London. Trinity College, Cambridge. (1)
DENISE FINK: No information available. (1)
LAURENCE FLEMING: Born Shillong 1929, brother of above. The New School, Calcutta and Darjeeling. Repton School, Derbyshire. National Service RAF. St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. (8)
FAY FOUCAR: Born Moulmein, Burma 1923, daughter of E.C.V Foucar, Barrister- at-law, author of several books on Burma and of the official history of the First Burma Campaign in 1942. Father and two brothers started a timber business in Burma in the 1880s. Private school in Rottingdean. Roedean. (2)
ADRIAN FRITH: Born Wellington, Coonoor 1928, son of Lt. Col. John Frith, Indian Army, The Baluch Regiment, and his wife Erica Bovey. Winchester College, Hampshire. (1)
PATRICK GIBSON: Born Walton-on-Thames 1928, son of Edward Leslie Gibson, The Bombay Burmah Trading Co., and his wife Charlotte Noreen Fuller-Good. Uplands School, Heathfield, Sussex. Highlands School, Kaban Djahe, Sumatra. Hallett War School, Naini Tal. Highgate School, London. (1)
ELSPET GRAY: Born Inverness 1929, daughter of James MacGregor-Gray, Lloyds Bank, and his wife Elspet Eleanor Morrison. Actress. (2)
JANE GRICE: Born Calcutta 1935, daughter of William Henry Grice, Managing Director ICI (India) Ltd. Commanding Officer Calcutta Light Horse. and his wife Doris May Walsh. The New School, Darjeeling. St Felix School, Southwold. (2)
JOAN GRIMLEY: Born London 1930, elder daughter of Lt. Col. Harry Bridgeman Grimley MBE (Military) Royal Indian Army Service Corps and his wife Margaret Elsie Grimley, Pianist. Loreto Convent, Simla. (1)
AURIOL GURNER: Born Calcutta 1927, third daughter of Sir Walter Gurner CSI ICS and his wife Phyllis Mills Carver. Southall, Surrey. Westonbirt, Gloucestershire. The New School, Calcutta and Darjeeling. Garnell College of Education, Roehampton. Lecturer, Further Education Open University (BA Hons). (2)
LYNETTE GURNER: Born London 1925 elder sister of above. St Monica’s Surrey. Westonbirt, Gloucestershire. The New School, Calcutta and Darjeeling. Garnell College of Education, Roehampton. (4)
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EVELYN ROSE HADLEY: Born Edinburgh 1934, second daughter of Owen Hadley, Chief Accountant Burmah Oil Company, and his wife Effie Richardson. (1)
RUBY HADLEY: Born Rangoon 1921, eldest daughter of Owen Hadley, sister of above. (1)
VAL HARRISON: Daughter of two teachers at Lawrence College, Murree. (1)
BRIAN PETER HASKINS: Born Lewisham 1933, only child of John Begley Haskins, Chief Engineer Oudh & Tirhout and Bengal Nagpur Railways, and his wife Joan Mary Lilley, a professional nurse. Woodstock School, Landour. Portora, Northern Ireland. Loughborough College. (1)
CLARE HAYNES: Born Cork 1921, third daughter of Major Edward John Haynes, IEME (Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) Indian Army, and his wife Marjorie Denning. Convent of Jesus and Mary, Murree. (1)
ANN HENRY: Born Bushey Heath 1925, eldest child of Brigadier T.R. Henry CBE, 8th Punjab Regiment and his wife Dora Dalton. Uplands School, St Leonard’s-on- Sea. Presentation Convent, Srinagar. Hallett War School, Naini Tal. (1)
ROBIN HERBERT CBE: Born London 1934, son of Sir John Herbert GCIE Governor of Bengal, and his wife Lady Mary Fox-Strangways. Singamari, Darjeeling. Eton College, Berkshire. (1)
CARL HIGGINSON: Born Andal, Bengal 1935, third son of Charles Higginson, Mail Driver on East India and Northern Railways, and his wife Dorothy McCready. Railway Schools at Asansol, Bengal, and Dhanbad, Bihar. St Patrick’s High School, Asansol. (3)
DICK HINDMARSH: Born Lyme Regis, 1931, son of Lt. Col. J.H.L. Hindmarsh and his wife Phyllis Palmer, National Service in Royal Artillery. University of London. (1)
FRANK HIPPMAN: Born Aldershot 1923, son of Sergeant W. Hippman MM Royal Fusiliers and his wife Chrissie Leedham. Lawrence School, Mount Abu. (1)
GLORIA HOLLINS: Born Jubbulpore 1927, daughter of Albert G. Hollins The Great Indian Peninsular Railway and his wife, Agnes Kenny (born Rangoon 1894). Hebron High School, Coonoor. Lawrence School, Lovedale. (2)
PAMELA HOPKINS: Born Jubbulpore 1932, daughter of Alan Hopkins, Indian Forestry Service and his wife. St Hilda’s, Ootacamund. (1)
DONALD FERGUSON HOWIE: Born Meerut 1918, younger son of Staff Sergeant Charles Thomas Howie, the Bedfordshire Regiment, later Regimental Instructor to the Auxiliary Forces, India for the North Western Railway, and his wife Ethel Muriel. Lawrence Royal Military School, Sanawar, Simla Hills. Chelmsford Training College for European Teachers, Ghora Gali, Murree. (2)
ELIZABETH IRELAND: Born Scone, Perthshire 1914, only child of John Ireland, Manager, Confectionery Department, East India Distilleries and Sugar Factories. Nellikuppam, Madras, and his wife Bell McGibbon McCormick. Prep School at Coonoor. St Hilda’s, Ootacamund. Adcote School, Shrewsbury. (2)
Fleming Papers: Box 1
Collection of extracts gathered by Laurence Fleming during the process of writing his two-volume work Last children of the Raj. Extracts detail the lives of contributors growing up in British India in the form of short memoirs. This collection includes some not used in the final work.
The number of extracts included in the collection is given in brackets after each description.
List of contributors:
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PAMELA ALBERT: Born London 1927, only child of Lt. Col. Edward Francis Albert, 7th Rajput Regiment, and his wife Lydian Gladys Ross Perri. Hallett War School, Naini Tal. (13)
MARION ALEXANDER: Born Kerkeria, Assam 1929, only child of Gordon and Margaret Alexander, Corramore Tea Estate. The New School, Calcutta and Darjeeling. Whincroft Girls’ School, Crowborough, Sussex. (3)
ANGELA ALLEN: Born Mussoorie 1918, younger daughter of Guy Oldfield Allen, ICS, and his wife Barbara Egerton. Corran School, Watford. Kinnaird Park School, Watford. Saint Anne’s College, Oxford. (1)
DOROTHY ALLEN: Born Mirzapur UP 1911, elder sister of above. Studied piano at Howard-Jones School of Music, London. (1)
ROBERT ALTER: Born Srinagar, Kashmir 1926, Son of Reverend D. Emmet Alter, and his wife Martha Payne Alter, Missionaries under United Presbyterian Church. Woodstock School, Mussoorie, both as pupil and as Principal, 1968–78. (1)
CRYSTAL AYNSLEY: No information available. (5)
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DOROTHY MARGARET BAKER: Born Ootacamund 1928, elder daughter of Frederick Charles Baker, Customs and Excise, Madras, and his second wife Phyllis May Holton. Bishop Cotton’s Girls’ High School, Bangalore. London School of Economics BSc (Econ). (3)
JESSICA MAY BAKER: Born Madras 1930, younger sister of above, Bishop Cotton’s Girls’ High School, Bangalore. BA (Open University) 1975. (2)
ROBERT BAKER: Born Kodaikanal 1913, brother of above. King’s School, Canterbury. (4)
LYNETTE BALLARD: No information available. (3)
PATRICIA BANHAM: Born Poona 1923, sister of above. St Mary’s High School, Poona. Barnes High School, Deolali. (3)
PATRICK BANHAM: No information available. (1)
PHILIP BANHAM: Born Poona 1922, son of William John Banham, Indian Police, and his wife Winifred Roberta Waller. Cathedral School, Bombay. Chelmsford College, Ghora Gali. (8)
CAMPBELL BANNERMAN: No information available. (1)
ELISE BARNETT: No information available. (1)
JOAN BARTON: No information available. (3)
SUSAN BEEVOR: No information available. (1)
N. BELL: No information available. (1)
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JAMES BENTHALL: Born Calcutta 1933, younger twin son of Sir Paul Benthall KBE, The Bird/Heilgers Group, Calcutta, and his wife Mary Lucy. The New School, Darjeeling. Eton College, Berkshire. Magdalene College, Cambridge. (5)
HENRY BERRIFF: Born Simla 1927, elder son of Arthur Berriff, of Alan Henry & Co. The Mall, Simla, later Stores Manager at the Gun Carriage Factory in Jubbulpore and the Railway Repair Shops, and his second wife Elfriede Davison. Christ Church School, Jubbulpore. Bishop Cotton’s School, Simla. (2)
JENNIFER BETTEN: Born Darjeeling 1934, third daughter of Malcolm Betten, tea planter with Williamson and Magor, and his wife Eva. Singamari School, Darjeeling. (3)
RICHARD BINGLE: No information available. (1)
JANE BIRKMYRE: Born Calcutta 1929, daughter of Sir Henry Birkmyre, Bart., Chairman and Managing Director, Birkmyre Brothers, Calcutta, Member Bengal Legislative Assembly 1935–44, and his wife, Doris Gertrude Austen Smith (daughter of Colonel Austen Smith, CIE), Assistant Red Cross Commissioner for Military Hospital Welfare, India and Burma, Kaisar-I-Hind Silver Medal. St David’s School, Englefield Green. The New School, Calcutta. Singamari, Darjeeling. Evendine Court Domestic Science College, Malvern. (1)
JOHN BLANDY: Professor, CBE, MA, DM, MCh, FRCS, FACS, Hon. FRCSI, born Calcutta 1927, son of Sir Nicolas Blandy, KCIE, CSI, ICS, Governor-elect of Assam, and his wife Dorothy Kathleen Marshall. The New School, Darjeeling. Clifton College, Bristol. Balliol College, Oxford. (4)
FRANK BLEWITT: No information available. (1)
NANETTE BOYCE: Born Mussoorie 1928, eldest daughter of Brigadier Thomas Walker Boyce, OBE, MC, MM, 14th Punjabi Regiment, and his wife Heather Baxter. The New School, Darjeeling. (4)
LORNA BRADBURY: Born Nagpur 1924, daughter of Herbert Edgar Bradbury (born Bellary 1886), Superintendent, Post & Telegraphs, and his wife Daisy Beryl Harvey Johnson. Bishop Cotton School, Nagpur. St Mary’s Training College, Poona. School- teacher at Baldwin Girls’ School, Bangalore. (2)
JOAN BRAGG: Born Rawalpindi 1927, elder daughter of Lt. Col. H.V. Bragg, 3rd/9th Jat Regiment, and his wife Bessie Pinkerton. Sheikh Bagh School, Srinagar. Presentation Convent, Srinagar. (2)
HEIDI BRAUN: Born Vienna 1936, daughter of Rudolph M. Braun, Engineer, and his wife Elise (Lisl) Herbratschek, Concert Pianist. The New School, Darjeeling. Barnard College and Columbia University, New York. (2)
PETER BROADBENT: Born Bournemouth 1933, son of Col. R.B. Broadbent, Bombay Pioneers and Rajputana Rifles, and his wife Jean Thorburn. The New School, Darjeeling and 8 others. Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. (2)
H.C.G. BROWN CBE DSC: Born Rangoon 1918, son of H.C.G. Brown, Deputy Conservator of Port of Rangoon, and his wife Matilda Mann. Hammond’s School, Swaffham, Norfolk. Choral Scholar, King’s College, Cambridge. (3)
JOY BROWNLOW: No information available. (1)
MICHAEL BRUCE: Born Laheraserai, Dharbanga District, North Bihar 1927, son of Harold Easton Bruce, MC Deputy Inspector General, Indian Police, and his wife Aileen Fitzgerald. Oratory School, Woodcote. Hallett War School, Naini Tal. Exeter College, Oxford. (2)
BARRY BRYSON: Born Weymouth 1929, younger son of Andrew Bryson and his wife Kathleen. Stepson of Reginald Wallace Thom MBE, Divisional Mechanical Engineer North Western Railway, Quetta, Baluchistan. Bishop Cotton’s School, Simla. (2)
CAROLINE BURDER: Born Calcutta 1933, younger daughter of Sir John and Lady Burder, Jardine Skinner & Co. PNEU course at Dr Graham’s Homes, Kalimpong. (3)
SUSAN BURDER: Born Calcutta 1931, elder daughter of Lt. Col. Sir John Burder, Member of Council of State 1943, President Bengal and Associated Chambers of Commerce, India 1943, President Imperial Bank of India 1947, and his wife Betty Bailey. The New School, Calcutta and Darjeeling. PNEU course at Dr Graham’s Homes, Kalimpong. (2)
ANN BURKINSHAW: Born Calcutta 1928, only child of Dick Burkinshaw, Jessop & Co., and his wife Kathleen Grimley. The New School, Calcutta and Darjeeling. St Anne’s College, Oxford. (7)
