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He bought some land there, on the western side of the Rift Valley near what is now Eldoret. In 1911, after a trip to South Africa with some relatives, Denys, age 24, traveled to British East Africa (B.E.A.) with money left to him by his deceased uncle. Many have chronicled his cat-like grace of movement and unusual talent as a hunter.ĭenys George Finch Hatton, Rose Cartwright, and Karen Blixen, with Halima and Tumbo, children of her staff. He was 6 feet three inches tall and had the fair complexion of his mother, a strawberry blond.

#DENYS FINCH HATTON FULL#

Despite this he was good-looking, with full lips and the well-defined features of an aristocrat. During this period he shaved his head as a prank, and his hair is said never to have really grown back. He entered Balliol College, Oxford, and finished with a poor Fourth. He excelled in cricket, football (soccer) and golf in singing, drawing and mimicry and in poetry and story-telling. He was especially popular at Eton, where he impressed his friends with his sense of humor and wit.

The second son and third child, Denys was his mother's favorite and the darling of everyone he met. The second son and third child, he was educated at Eton College, and Brasenose College, Oxford. Denys George Finch Hatton was a son of Henry Stormont Finch Hatton, 13th Earl of Winchilsea, by his wife, the former Anne 'Nan' Codrington, daughter of an Admiral of the British Fleet.

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