Henry Anderson Molteno: Gibbs Family Tree

Gibbs Family Tree

1880 - 1969 (88 years)

Generation: 1

Henry Anderson Molteno was born on 30 Sep 1880 in Cape, South Africa; died on 21 Jul 1969 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.

Other Events and Attributes:

Baptism: 14 Nov 1880, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Education: Oct 1898, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Residence: 1901, Mullion, Cornwall

Notes:

The youngest son of John Charles Molteno. Harry partnered his brother, Ted Molteno, in developing their largescale deciduous fruit and apple farms at Elgin in the first half of the 20th century. Harry, like his brother, Ted, never married. Both brothers set up charitable trusts and left most of their wealth to them. In addition, Harry made several major bequests during his lifetime to universities and at least one school. Educated at Cambridge, he was musical. For many years, he and Ted had their cousin, Dr Ernest Anderson, also a bachelor, living with them. After Harry died, the Molteno Brothers Trust ran the farms and became a very large donor to various educational projects, notably the Molteno Project which concentrated on improving literacy and the teaching of English in Black schools in South Africa during the last decades of the apartheid era.