Betty Steele, who died at Baltimore, United States, 23 September, 2005, aged 78, was, with her 3rd husband, Jock Leslie-Melville, responsible for founding Giraffe Manor, a conservation centre and guesthouse near Nairobi, Kenya, which helped to ensure the preservation of Rothschild's giraffe.
She was born Betty McDonnell, 7 March, 1927 in Baltimore, Maryland. She married first, Lloyd Anderson, by whom she had a son, Rick, who now runs Giraffe Manor; she married secondly, Dancy Bruce, by whom she had a daughter (and a son who predeceased her); she married 3rdly, in 1964, as his second wife, John David (Jock) Leslie-Melville (1933-84), son of the Hon. David William Leslie-Melville, MBE (1892-1938), by his second wife the former Eleanor Mary Abrahall; and a grandson of the 11th Earl of Leven & Melville. Jock Leslie-Melville died in 1984; she married 4thly, Vice-Admiral George Peabody Steele, whom she had met on safari, and who survives her with her son and daughter.
Source: Daily Telegraph 3 Oct 2005
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