Denys finch hatton biography book

          Too Close to the Sun, The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton is as much a detailed history of British East Africa--the country known today as Kenya.!

          Denys Finch Hatton

          British aristocrat and big-game hunter (1887–1931)

          Denys George Finch-HattonMC (24 April 1887 – 14 May 1931) was a British aristocraticbig-game hunter and the lover of BaronessKaren von Blixen (also known by her pen name, Isak Dinesen), a Danish noblewoman who wrote about him in her autobiographical book Out of Africa, first published in 1937.

          "Conservationist, scholar, soldier, white hunter and fabled lover - Denys Finch Hatton was an aristocrat of leonine nonchalance.

        1. "Conservationist, scholar, soldier, white hunter and fabled lover - Denys Finch Hatton was an aristocrat of leonine nonchalance.
        2. Denys Finch Hatton was adored by women and idolized by men.
        3. Too Close to the Sun, The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton is as much a detailed history of British East Africa--the country known today as Kenya.
        4. Sara Wheeler reveals the truth behind Finch Hatton's love affairs with the glamorous aviatrix Beryl Markham and with Karen Blixen.
        5. Born to an old aristocratic family that had gambled away most of its fortune, Finch Hatton grew up in a world of effortless elegance and boundless power.

          6. In the book, his name is hyphenated: "Finch-Hatton".

          Early life

          Denys Finch Hatton was born in Prince of Wales Terrace, Kensington, on 24 April 1887,[1][2] the second son and third child of Henry Stormont Finch-Hatton, 13th Earl of Winchilsea, and his wife, the former Anne Codrington, daughter of Admiral of the FleetSir Henry Codrington.

          The Finch-Hatton family was old and aristocratic. His grandfather was George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea, whose mother was Lady Elizabeth Murray, a daughter of the 2nd Earl of Mansfield and a cousin of Dido Belle.

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