Alexander Chancellor

Diary – 25 February 2006

Dick Cheney didn’t need a golden guinea to buy the goodwill of Harry Whittington

issue 25 February 2006

The story goes that my great-grandfather Murray Finch Hatton, MP for Lincolnshire in the 1880s and later 12th Earl of Winchilsea, shot an African tracker in the leg while big-game shooting in Kenya. Mortified by what he had done, he rushed forward and gave the tracker a golden guinea. The man limped off, but soon returned.

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