Caroline Kathleen Murray (9 August 1892 - 9 February 1984) was an export farmer, philanthropist and

Black Sash The Black Sash is a South African human rights organisation. It was founded in Johannesburg in 1955 as a non-violent resistance organisation for liberal white women. Origins The Black Sash was founded on 19 May 1955 by six middle-class white ...

activist of

Elgin Elgin may refer to: Places Canada * Elgin County, Ontario * Elgin Settlement, a 19th-century community for freed slaves located in present-day North Buxton and South Buxton, Ontario * Elgin, a village in Rideau Lakes, Ontario * Elgin, Manit ...

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Background

Kathleen Murray was born in

Kenilworth, Cape Town Kenilworth is a suburb in Cape Town, South Africa situated in the Southern Suburbs region of the city. Etymology The earliest recorded reference to the Kenilworth area was as "''Weltevreden''" (Dutch for "well-satisfied") in the 1700s. The ...

. She was the youngest daughter of Dr Charles Murray, an Irish naval Doctor, and Caroline Molteno, an early suffragette of the

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. She attended

Bedales School Bedales School is a coeducational boarding and day public school, in the village of Steep, near the market town of Petersfield in Hampshire, England. It was founded in 1893 by Amy Garrett Badley and John Haden Badley in reaction to the li ...

. As a girl she decided to go into farming rather than to marry. She was one of the first single woman farmers in the region. She began with beekeeping and small patches of vegetables. By the end of her life she ran a large commercial deciduous farming enterprise and the produce of her farms won prizes around the world. In Elgin she chaired the farming co-operative and was responsible for schools for the underprivileged as well as other local projects. She was an active figure in the non-violent women's resistance group

from the 1950s onwards.C.Schoeman: ''The Historical Overberg''. Penguin Random House, 2017. . p.28

References

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