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Womaniser Who Was Killed Over Adultery and Buried at Church Compound in Kiambu

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At the backyard of St. Paul’s Anglican Church of Kenya in Kiambu County there is a cemetery and among those buried there is a controversial Briton.

Lord Errol who was hated for womanising tendencies and wild lifestyle was buried here. He was shot dead in Karen in January 24, 1941.

Errol was Captain of Kenya Regiment and Military Secretary for East Africa during World War II and three years before his killing he represented Kiambu in Legislative Council.

How his remains ended up at the Church’s compound is unclear. He was supposed to be buried at the Nairobi War Cemetery which is along Ngong road but it is suspected his family decided to have him buried in Kiambu.

He was part of “Happy Valley Set”, a notorious immoral group of elites who were sexual maniacs, party-lovers and liked wife swapping and other sexual orgies. Happy Valley is today’s Naivasha.

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The hotel named after him.

In 2016 his grave was cleaned up by British government ahead of his 75th anniversary.

His wife divorced him when they came to Kenya in early 1924. He started dating an American Heiress then picked another divorced woman.

The divorcee died in 1939 from alcoholism and drugs overdose. She was also buried at this church backyard.

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His grave is kept in good condition.

Errol started affair with Diana Broughton (Who was later married by Tom Delamere). This led to his murder suspected to have been executed by one of the two women he dated or their husbands.