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Nigel Leakey
Nigel Gray Leakey VC (1 January 1913 – 19 May 1941) was a Kenya born English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
==Early life==
Leakey was born in Kiganjo, Kenya to English parents. Leakey's mother Elizabeth died in 1926. His father, Arundell Gray Leakey, was the son of Reverend John Arundell Leakey, clergyman in England. He was a cousin of Louis Leakey, and so also related to Richard Leakey. Leakey's younger brother Rea Leakey served in the Royal Tank Regiment in the Second World War, and became a Major General. His sister Agnes Leakey (1917-2007) (later Agnes Hofmeyr) worked for reconciliation in Kenya.〔(Obituary: Agnes Hofmeyr ), The Independent, 26 January 2007〕
After serving in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in the early 1900s, Leakey's father became a farmer at Nyeri Station, west of Mount Kenya in Central Province, Kenya, about north of Kiganjo and about north of Nairobi. His father was an honorary Kikuyu tribeman known as "Morungaru" ("tall and straight"); he was kidnapped and brutally murdered by the Mau Mau in October 1954, and his second wife Mary was also killed.〔(6 Myths about the ‘Mau Mau’ War ); (The Charging Buffalo: A History of the Kenya Regiment 1937-1963 ), Guy Campbell, p.78; ''Time Magazine'' for Monday 1 November 1954, under ''(Blood Brother )''.〕
Leakey was educated in Keyna, and then attended Bromsgrove School in England.〔(The Five Victoria Crosses of Bromsgrove School )〕
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