British womaniser remembered in Kiambu

Lord Errol

The grave of one of Kenya’s most famous mzungu womanisers in Kiambu has been spruced up in readiness for the 75th anniversary of his death, this at the cost of the British government.

Lord Errol, after whom The Lord Erroll Restaurant in Nairobi’s Runda estate is named, was murdered in January 1941. Lord Erroll (Jossyln Victor Hay) was buried at the St Paul’s Anglican Church in Kiambu. He was the poster boy of what has gone down as the ‘Happy Valley’ set whose binge drinking, wife swapping and unbridled sexual escapades has been well documented, even though today, the story of Lord Erroll would get eyes rolling in settler quarters.