On his return to Kenya after the Armistice, he developed a close friendship with Blixen and her Swedish husband, Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke. Soon afterwards he was assigned to military service in Egypt. They were introduced at the Muthaiga Club on 5 April 1918. Relationship with Blixenįinch Hatton was not known to have had any serious romances before he met Baroness Blixen. This relationship led to Edward VIII's taking up Finch-Hatton's causes, such as abandoning the use of cars for hunting safaris, and shifting towards filming big game, wildlife photography, and the founding of the Serengeti National Park. In Channel 4's Edward VIII: The Lion King, it was revealed that in 19, Finch-Hatton played host to the Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII, in a safari that switched from hunting to photography. Cole was very well connected in Kenya, being the brother-in-law of Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere, the effective leader of the White settlers in the country. Berkeley Cole (1882–1925), an Anglo–Irish aristocrat, born into a prominent Ulster family, who had also settled in the colony. In Kenya, Finch Hatton was a close friend of the Hon. He turned over the investment to a partner and spent his time hunting. In 1910, after a trip to South Africa, he travelled to British East Africa and bought some land on the western side of the Great Rift Valley near what is now Eldoret. At Eton, he was Captain of the cricket Eleven, Keeper of the Field and the Wall (two major sports played at Eton), President of the Prefects Society called Pop, and Secretary of the Music Society. He was educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford. Finch Hatton was the second son and third child of Henry Finch-Hatton, 13th Earl of Winchilsea, by his wife, the former Anne 'Nan' Codrington, daughter of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Codrington.

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