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YES...IN AFRICA...I HAVE BEEN
Nairobi.
HE stately homes of England transplanted to Kenya are a long
day's drive from Nairobi.
When the tarmac road
TO TALK TO OUR DUKES
IN THEIR NEW HABITAT
runs out you kick up great butler's waistcoat glow. choking clouds of dust in As I worked my way through the delicious thorn and scrub country. steak
Portsmouth the climb through Mermaid crest appeared you lush meadows full of sheep on the bottom of my
could be anywhere in plate.
Then
I that
Southern England before There was vintage
tropping down again to start
the long slog up into the foot-
hills of the great mountains,
Giraffe.
T 8,000ft, you find them—
Burgundy and portraits
in oils looked down on
the pair of us approving- ly. But the clown's face above the silver buttons belonged
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KENYA
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MOUNT ELGOM
SA MOUNT KENYA ·
AMOUSTA
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the windows at ancestral per- Portsmouth, tits by old Dutch musters.
wore a pyjuma When the petrol plant starts
Jacket ап up the lighting supply at sun- down, guests with whiskies and tarong-like colton skirt, sodas in crystal glasets sit walt- ing for the leopard to cough. Great houses and castles England are empty shella now, sently. "After the war I felt I Nairobi. He was wearing shorts wanted on my end a green-and-blue American rented by a Ministry, or the was no longer
beach shirt, R.A.F, or converted into schools, state," he told me carefully, The dukes and carls brought the heirlooms to the green hills of Africa to avoid taxation.
DUKERIES IN THE AREA MAPPED ABOVE. WHO HAS BEEN SEEKING OUT THE NEW He lives near Kitale about 50
He is a small, sixtyish, sandy miles frem the Earl of Poris- coloured man who smokea mouth by another mountain, from About Не courses.
200 miles taEts also between in
I visited some of them Kenya and then I flow
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"Y 66 VET I had turned Farleigh
from a bankrupt into a going Are they homesick? Do they miss the old round of shoots concern. But I could not make and hunt balle? Do they live more than £3,000 a year after the life of useful lords in the taxes, and the feeling around Colonies or
they do
merely me was sullen, shelter ceonomic funkholes? This is what found,
The duchess Was cutting flowers in a pink silk blouse and slacks. Round her waist was a Ted-and-white belt with a gold- crested buckle, and ahe whke wedge-heeled sandals,
woru
"I came here in 1940 after I was demobbed from the Navy. I have 10,000 acres of maize and ranchland, and wo built this house ourselves. First of all we Ilved In an earth-floored but with a thatched roof,"
the room Catherine of Aragon died in, James I tables and chairs, and a William and Mary bedspread,
There was the world's only complete collection of Gould's 27 hond-painted volumes on
Africans in which case I shall have to think again."
He gave my driver directions in fluent Swahill and sped me on my way. "Soon I shall be making as mitch money 44 Portsmouth," be shouted.
COWBOY"
GRAHAM, allas
ANGUS
the
Seventh Duke of Montrose, stood yanking the daylights out of the bellrope beneath the piece of brass marked H.M.S. "Ludlow, Stung between two posts on his front lawn.
birds, 庭 follo of unframed For whom tolled the bell? original Whistlers, a second For the duke's rugged Matabelo folio of Shakespeare, a solid arm Mashona labour force to silvor Brograte by Loveday, and come swarming out of his 3,000 The complete correspondence seres and collect their weekly between Walpole and Montagu. pay.
"I tell the Africans it is all
"Forgotten Scotland?" ho old stuff so then they don't harrumphed "I made a point.. pinch it," said the duchess of going to my crofters when I easily.
was there a few months ago.
"I have
no telephone and and telling them what rot that iden was." sometimes
London Tend the papers when they come in But Montroso has been a lump, sometimes not, the duke Rhodesian to all intents and pur- went on. "But I glue myself poses since 1931 when he first 10 the radio for fights and voluntarily exlled himself from sports events.
the shrinking ancestral estates, (They shrivelled from 130,000 acres in 1025 to 10,000 in 1954.)
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"The only thing I miss from England is my shooting."
The duke, once a great Rugby player, has a reputation in Keryn for being a fast man
Mystic...
into the forests after terrorists, ONCE he boxed for Elen and Oxford, is now a strapping Like Portsmouth, he puts in a 40. He looks 10 years younger long day on his farm, is and is an extrovert mixture of generally asleep by 0.15 p.m.
Colonial farmer, committeo mun, Sometimes he and the duchess mystic, "white Africa" poll run through hired movies on clan, und feudal squire... their projector,
Breathtaking
He would rather be loown_19° Angus Graham than the Duke, and he was wearing a tattered brown Riviera shirt and dread- ful old scuffed slippers when I
"So I came here to save the estate. I hope the Portsmouth continuity will be kept going The 350-rooned castle in His face burned Arc-engine saw him.
England which before tha 11 rod by the sun, the duke in Kenya."
He is an eccentric, energetic candles
walked me to my car past. lily experimenter, for ever testing war needed 20. servants eandlesticks Farleigh has Queen Anne
bren the run (apart from beaters and pools and garden statuary new pasture methods,
school. The specially brought out from Bri- and the eighteenth-century ancestral home of the Wallop coepers) is noW..
household thin. Like all those Kenya es- Керул silver foounan's buttons on the family since long before the duke's
FOUR
made
AVON
Gole Apentes. COSMOS DEVELOPMENT CO.
the
1743. carldom was granted in Fortsmouth farms 12,000 actes
on the slopes of Mount Elgon, in Western Kenya.
I had watched him, in cord shorts and short socks, walk round his maize, tea, coffee, and Swiss brown catile, and scratch the backs of his pigs with long blackthorn shepherd crook.
"I pay taxes on my holdings' in England and I pay Kenya at
taxes on what I have here worst 100. in the £..Some of what I make in England helps my children,
"By living on what I make hore I am left with more money for Farleigh."
By my reckoning the cari cannot harvest less than £30,000 proft a year in Kenya, even though he took . £20,000 knock a fow days bacic when hall Battened his coffee and malze.
to
TODAY
GERALD VERNON WALLOP NINTH EARL OF PORTOMOUTH |-
HE CALLS HIS KENYA, HOME
OVER WALLOP,"
ALEXANDER GEORGE FRANCIS DROGO MONTAGU TENTH DUKE OF MANCHESTER AND THE QUCHESS,
The counless lanthes Kenya and spends af most three numbers 14 houseboys and 20 tates his lios in months a yete there. She is at gardeners,
present in Italy.
FOUND the tenth Duke of Manchester surrounded by the paraphernalla necessary for him to pierce and light magnificent elgae and mix and pour
a Bunday morning pink
t
breath-
takingly beautiful setting. -
the import of Ho pioneered milky-white hump-backed Brab- min beef cattle into Rhodesia, His superstitious herdsmen re- gart them as sacred and believe the baas-who once peppered the local Press with letters on the subject of the "dark savago depths" of the African mind—la a bit of a head-shrinker hịm- selt.
To reach his properly you must motor along a turmãe road winding north from booming Salisbury, through the horriblo Riing station and bungalow eyo- sores of ribbon development,
M
Simple
wartime naval
A Montrose commanded the
former American destroyer Stockton, later renamed H.M.S Lilow.
"I am just a simple farmer" he snapped at mo. He and his young second wife turn up at most socially acceptable Salls- bury parties, where he is a popular guest, and nois a crack- ing pace by howling Gaelic songs into the early hours,
In Salisbury ho gives the Inpression of being no than-solvent, **EDI an "My son [Viscount, Mande communicativa blankety-blank," In addition to 18,000 books' ville) farms near here and" I he said and quietly, but firmly Manchester'a house is bursting. have no intention of returning pává mo the heave-he ott, his with treasures. I noted 12 do Eagarid. Unlew, of course, lands; Then he went back to an the Socialist Government opens lasso stocks a habit which Holbeins, a Van Dyck, Aubusson carpet, a tapestry, from the White Highlanda. to Alho gave him his nickname
"I love, England but it is The groen lawns were shaded Impossible to live there. My by plane tross against a back wife and I drove tractors and ground of golden malze, purplo worked like blates when we mountains and son-groen jungla. art started here."
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