He did not farm it, but turned over the investment to a partner, while Denys spent his spare time hunting. 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. 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. The story of Denys Finch Hatton and his love affair with Karen Blixen (his only known romance) is immortalised by Robert Redford and Meryl Streep in the Academy Award winning film "Out of Africa" (1985).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. He is buried in the Ngong Hills and an obelisk marks his grave to this day. His taste for adventure led him to learn to fly, and it was on May 14th 1931 that he died in a fatal plane crash in his Gypsy Moth near what is now the Tsave National Park, Kenya. the Duke of Windsor (the then Prince of Wales).
In 1925 he became a professional big game hunter and took numerous wealthy and distinguished clients on safari - including H.R.H. He would spend every Autumn and Winter in Africa doing just that. In 1911 the 24 year old Denys bought land in British East Africa as an investment which would give him the freedom to spend his time hunting. Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, Denys was a natural sportsman and scholar of the arts. Denys Finch Hatton was born in England on April 24th 1887, the son of Henry Stormont Finch Hatton, Earl of Winchelsea and Anne Finch Hatton (nee Coddrington), a daughter of a former Admiral of the British Fleet.
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