Word: josslyn
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...This week, in a hot, crowded courtroom, Major Sir Henry John Delves ("Sir Jock") Broughton was awaiting the verdict of a jury of his peers. For a full month he had seen the Crown Counsel, witness by witness, put together a damning picture of the murder of his friend, Josslyn Victor Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll (TIME, March...
Seated on the terrace one night last January was a foursome that might have stepped direct from Maugham's pages. One was sun-bronzed, handsome Josslyn Victor Hay, 39, 22nd Earl of Erroll, Hereditary High Constable of Scotland (a title conferred on his family in 1314 by Robert Bruce). He was a veteran of Mayfair, the Continental casinos, the English hunting fields and African big-game trails. Twice married, once divorced, and a recent widower, he owned and worked a large Kenya cattle farm, was active in Kenya's Legislative Council, and like a true sportsman lamented Nairobi...