It sounded like Beatrice Hamilton Leigh was part of the new wave of fashion that the swept Lagos society. But who was she? A read through the Journal of Sierra Leone Studies (2016) shows she married into the Leigh family, who were descendants of Thomas William Dupigny-Leigh (1888-1968). The family had ties which cut across […]
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