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Dorset / Re: Lulworth Cove, O'GORMAN photos?
« on: Sunday 14 June 15 17:30 BST (UK)  »
Today I spoke to Benita Sanders who is Christina Niece. She has informed me that multiple people had already contacted her about her aunt. She was not keen to talk and respecting her right to privacy I kept my conversation to a minimum. However she did tell me several points

She did state that Christina was very intelligent and was a wonderful person. She clearly had fond memories about her aunt. She also stated that both her mother and aunt would be amazed about how they had become a interest in the British news papers.
She did conform that her aunt was buried in Stoke Hammond but after telling me this she politely asked to end the conversation stating she didn't have anything more to say about her family. Respecting her right to privacy I didn't want to push the issue. I did manage to inform about her how her aunt and mother had been discovered.

I will not be making any more attempts to contact her in the future. I also will be ending my search for Christina and her life. I now know what her name is and where she lived and died. I am satisfied with the information I have and will let her lie in peace.

Kind Regards to every who helped in this search and a special mention on Kilkennylass who made an incredible effort to find Christina. I do find the O'Gorman and Bevan family inspirational and so many members of their extended family had achieved success in there respected fields of study.

Clive

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Dorset / Re: Lulworth Cove, O'GORMAN photos?
« on: Sunday 14 June 15 06:12 BST (UK)  »

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Dorset / Re: Lulworth Cove, O'GORMAN photos?
« on: Saturday 13 June 15 06:35 BST (UK)  »
Christina Father left an estate of net worth of 56000 pounds in 1943

Comparative value  in today's money range from 2.2 million to 10 million pounds

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Dorset / Re: Lulworth Cove, O'GORMAN photos?
« on: Saturday 13 June 15 06:08 BST (UK)  »
Another obituary in the times for Christina's father

DR. EDWYN BEVAN AN APPRECIATION The Rev. H. K. Archdall, Principal of St. David's College, Lampeter, writes :- The death of Edwyn Bevan is irreparable to many, and the loss to the Church and the country of his learned and sagacious judgment is likely to become apparent. No one else could have written the remarkable volume entitled " Christianity " in the Home University Library and it is good to know that it is a " best seller." I can testify'to its value in Australia and New Zealand in creating,an atmosphere in which the antitheses of church history can be changed into complementariness. It was the complete honesty of his mind, combined with his deep personal Christian faith, which made him so stimulating a companion and so reliable a counsellor. Neither his classical rearning nor his philosophical ability were to him, of primary  importance: all was secondary to bis Christian conviction: he knew all. the currents of contemporary theological thought,  but held to his own steadfast faith, which was based more on the historical character of the Christian Revelation than on aught else.' He was a layman of whom the Church of England may be proud, though he had many contacts, through the late Baron F. von Hugjel and through the Student Christian Movement, with other modes of thought and practice. The book he published during the war of 1914-18 about the German colonies in Africa was based on a unique knowledge of the facts and should be reread today; his advice.given in The Times in 1937 about the problem of being fair both to Arabs and Jews in Palestine was both realistic and challenging. There will be many men in prominent positions in India. who will look back to the time when he invited Indian students to  his house in Chelsea and sought to make them feel at home. His recent book entitled " Christians in a World at War " must have helped many to keep their feet on the ground and their heads erect. As a reviewer of books he was a model of charity combined with loyalty to fact and truth; of him it can truly be said Nilil teiigit qruod non ornavir.

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Dorset / Re: Lulworth Cove, O'GORMAN photos?
« on: Saturday 13 June 15 05:55 BST (UK)  »
Christina's father obituary
 
DR. EDWYN BEVAN CLASSICAL SCHOLAR AND HISTORIAN Dr. Edwyn Bevan, O.B.E., F.B.A., who die' in London yesterday at the age of 73, was a man of varied gifts, a classical scholar and archaeologist, a student of the philosophy of religion and especially of Christianity, and an observer of contemporary politics. To The Times he contributed letters chiefly on Indian and foreign policy which revealed judgment, knowledge, and grasp of affairs, combined with the detachment of a philosophic historian; and he had been a frequent contributor to The Times LiterarS' Supplement. Born on February 15, 1870, Edwyn Robert Bevan was the seventh son of the 16 children born to Mr. Robert Cooper Lee Bevan, of Trent Park, Middlesex, and Fosbury House, Wilts. Like his brother, the late Anthony Ashley Bevan, Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic at Oxford, he was an exception among the large clan of Bevans, who have been for the most part' country gentlemen with banking and other financial interests. He was educated at Cheam, Monkton Combe, and New College, Oxford, of which he was later elected an honorary fellow. After traveling in India he worked at the British School in Athens in' 1894, and took part in excavations at Alexandria in 1895. In the war of 1914 he worked successively in the Propaganda Department, in the Department of Information, and in the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office. From 1922 to 1933 Bevan was lecturer on Hellenistic history and literature at King's College, London. For this work he was admirably qualified, for he had made an early reputation with his " House of Seleucus" and had followed that success up with other studies in the history, religion, and philosophy of the pre-Christian and post-Christian East; during. the tenure of his lectureship he wrote a history of Egypt under the Ptolemies and contributed to the Cambridge histories of the Ancient World and of India. In 1932 he wrote the volume on Christianity for the Home University Library; and in 1938 there appeared' his " Symbolism and Belief " which he had taken as the subject of his Gifford lectures. It is hardly possible here to enumerate all his books, which were those of an exceptionally well equipped scholar of remarkably wide range;, but it should be recorded that he also translated in English verse more than one of the plays of Aeschyltus. Last year he collected into a volume a number of poems which he had written at various times. Dr. Bevan was an honorary D.Litt (0xford) and LL.D.(St. Andrews). He married in 1896 the Hon. Mary Waldegrave, daughter of the 'third Baron Radstock. She died in 1935. There were two daughters of the marriage.

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Dorset / Re: Lulworth Cove, O'GORMAN photos?
« on: Saturday 13 June 15 04:46 BST (UK)  »
In today's money Christina left 852,200 pounds in her will

I used http://www.measuringworth.com/ukcompare/relativevalue.php to derive at calculation

In today's money she was close to being a millionaire and this way before property prices in England took off.

So its highly unlikely the total value of her wealth was just based on the value of her home. She must of had a few other investments, I think she might of inherited some wealth.

You can view here property via this link

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Dorset / Re: Lulworth Cove, O'GORMAN photos?
« on: Friday 12 June 15 23:59 BST (UK)  »
I'm trying to find educational records for Christina. I'm assuming that with her father being an academic at Kings College, London she might of attended this university. But there's no mention of her from a list of graduates up to 1936. Three possibilities are that her father was a bigot and didn't believe in education for girls, or she attended another university, or she was not academically gifted

Kilkennylas can you give me the street address in reigate and the year that Christina moved there. On a personnel note I was a PCSO in Dorking for 4 years ( I now have left surrey police and live back in NZ) which is the next town to Reigate. So I know the town well I had to take many a person to the Nick in Reigate.


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Dorset / Re: Lulworth Cove, O'GORMAN photos?
« on: Friday 12 June 15 23:36 BST (UK)  »
Looks like a nice home, I wonder who she gave her money too

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Dorset / Re: Lulworth Cove, O'GORMAN photos?
« on: Friday 12 June 15 11:37 BST (UK)  »
I thought that the o'gorman family was interesting but the Bevan family is way more interesting. they were rich via Christina's grandfather being a partner in Barcleys Bank. Her grandfather on her mother side was Baron Radstoke

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