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unusual facts about Mary Benson


Mary Benson

She was described by Gladstone, the British Prime Minister, as the 'cleverest woman in Europe'.


Guy Clutton-Brock

With the eloquent support of Trevor Huddleston, Fenner Brockway, Michael Scott, Mary Benson and many others, Guy, his wife Molly (1912–2013), Didymus Mutasa, George Nyandoro and Michael and Eileen Haddon founded Cold Comfort Farm in Southern Rhodesia which became a widely acclaimed pattern for racial freedom and regeneration in the poverty-stricken countries of Africa.


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