Lucy Maud Langridge (nee Coldham) was born in Anmer, Norfolk, in Feb. 1884. Her brother Philip J.H. Coldham settled in Kenya, c. 1906. As Miss Coldham, Lucy purchased a fruit farm at Ngelini from Lord Delamere in May 1908. In August of that year, Lucy married a fellow settler, George Lewis Langridge (1873-1958), an ostrich farmer. George Langridge was a controversial figure who came into conflict with the colonial administration on several occasions. He had a boundary dispute with Kenneth Dundas, the District Commissioner of Machakos, in 1910, and in 1911 was arrested for causing grievous bodily harm on a local man (the subject of the 'Langridge trial' press cuttings). Lucy ran a convalescent home from her home in Kenya for soldiers during the First World War. Correspondence accompanying the collection suggest that Lucy returned to England in 1921 due to ill-health (thought to have been a mental health condition) and lived in Chichester. An obituary notice among the papers records her death at a nursing home in Cambridge in 1970.
Lily 'Fluffy' Landstone was a patient at the East Anglian Sanatorium [later the Jane Walker Hospital] at Nayland, Suffolk, from 1904 until her death in Aug. 1915. It is thought that Lucy Coldham was a fellow patient (or perhaps a nurse) at the sanatorium between 1904 and 1906.