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What was the name of Louis Leakey's first wife not Mary because she was his second wife. What was the name of his first wife then?

2007-11-24 14:20:38 · 2 answers · asked by K 1 in Arts & Humanities History

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At www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/lleakey.html, in the biography of Dr. Louis S. B. Leakey, it says this:

"In 1928 Louis had married FRIDA (or FRIEDA) AVERN, an Englishwoman he had met in Africa. While in England in 1933, he met MARY NICOL, a scientific illustrator, and soon started an affair with her despite the fact that he had one young child and a pregnant wife. Mary joined him for his next expedition to Africa, and returned home to live with him in 1935. In 1936, his wife Frida filed for divorce, and Louis and Mary married late that year."

www.kirjasto.sci.fi/leakey.htm
Leakey, Mary (Douglas) - archaeologist. She met and married L.S.B. Leakey while preparing drawings for his book ADAM'S ANCESTORS, and moved to Kenya. In 1948 she discovered Proconsul africanus at Lake Victoria and in 1976 she found fossilized hominid footprints during her excavation at Laetoli. Mary Leakey's works include OLDUVAI GORGE: MY SEARCH FOR EARLY MAN (1979) and an autobiography DISCLOSING THE PAST (1984).

Louis Leakey died in London in 1972 at the age of 69.
Mary Leakey died in Nairobi on December 9, 1996, at the age of 83.

2007-11-24 14:43:33 · answer #1 · answered by jan51601 7 · 0 0

Henrietta Wilfreda "Frida" Avern

2007-11-24 14:28:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

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