Our AGM and talk

Whit an AGM we had at Rake Hall!! Paul Gordon was elected President for 2025-6

The handover of Power "from me to you", Mike Martin to Paul Gordon

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Then after a super meal in their Library a very apt Agatha Christie/Cluedo-like atmosphere we swiftly moved into a Murder-Mystery Whodunit like like no other.

We were treated to a spine-tingling account of the murder of the 22nd Earl of Errol in Nairobi in 1941. This was delivered by the world-renowned Prof Robin Dunbar, Oxford Don, and of course more importantly Past President of the Chester Caledonian Association!

​Whit it was aboot!

In 1941, Joss Hay, the 22nd Earl of Errol and hereditary High Steward of Scotland, was murdered on his way home from dropping off his mistress, Diana, the new wife of Delves (Jock) Broughton (11th baronet of a famous Cheshire landowning family from Doddington). Broughton was tried for the murder, but acquitted, and committed suicide in the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, the following year. So who did dunit? A jilted mistress? An aggrieved husband? Joss's Somali chauffeur? MI6 (on Churchill's orders)? 

As a starter we were given an insight into the fun and games, frolics and bed-hopping of Kenya’s fast set along with historical links to Anglo-German hostilities in WW1. At the end we were given a series of potential suspects, my money is on an SOE agent!

Robin in full flow