History of the Lawrence Brown family
Major George Lawrence-Brown, of the Royal Engineers, was born in Calcutta, India in 1884. In 1907 Grandpa George married Daisy Alice Anderson and 10 children were born. The family moved from India to British East Africa, later Kenya Colony and now the Republic of Kenya where he had been granted land by the British Government under the Soldier Settlement Scheme and in 1923 settled on a 364 acre farm planting coffee and tea. George died in 1927 of black water fever.
Max Lawrence-Brown was the eldest of the brothers followed by Stan and Geoff. In 1939 Max married Christina Magdalena Erasmus and they had 3 children - Pam, Howard and Diana. Great Uncle Charley Beatson came out to Kenya to hunt after retiring from the First World War and settled in Gilgil area on his settlement ranch. Uncle Charley only had one love and spent most of his later years hunting all over Kenya and Tanzania. It was he who taught Max and Stan Lawrence-Brown how to hunt and gave them the freedom as young boys to develop their hunting skills. With the World War II breaking out, all three brothers were called up with Max seconded to the Royal Engineers; Stan to the Royal Artillery and Geoff to the Medical Corp.