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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

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

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.

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.

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