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British aristocrat and big-game hunter (–)

Denys George Finch-HattonMC (24 April – 14 May ) 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 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 ,^[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.

Denys Finch Hatton was also descended from Jane Austen's ric