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Bror von Blixen-Finecke, the Glossary

Baron Bror Fredrik von Blixen-Finecke (25 July 1886 – 4 March 1946) was a Swedish nobleman, writer, professional hunter and guide on African big-game hunts.^[1]

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Immigrants to the British Empire
Karen Blixen
Road incident deaths in Sweden
Swedish emigrants
Swedish emigrants to Kenya

Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr.

Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr. (September 22, 1912 – November 12, 1999) was a British-born member of the prominent Vanderbilt railroad family, and a noted figure of American thoroughbred horse racing.

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Alnarp

Alnarp is a village and university campus in Lomma Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden, lying between Lund and Malmö.

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Ankarcrona

The Ankarcrona family is a Swedish noble family of German origin, which settled in Sweden in the 17th century.

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Babati

Babati is a town in Babati Urban District of Manyara Region of Tanzania.

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Baghdad

Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran.

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Beijing

Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.

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Beryl Markham

Beryl Markham (born Clutterbuck; 26 October 1902 – 3 August 1986) was a Kenyan aviator born in England (one of the first bush pilots), adventurer, racehorse trainer and author.

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Big-game hunting is the hunting of large game animals for trophies, taxidermy, meat, and commercially valuable animal by-products (such as horns, antlers, tusks, bones, fur, body fat, or special organs).

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Carl Frederik Blixen-Finecke

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Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs

Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs (8 December 1817 – 12 October 1896) was a Danish nobleman and politician.

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Denys Finch Hatton

Denys George Finch-Hatton MC (24 April 1887 – 14 May 1931) was a British aristocratic big-game hunter and the lover of Baroness Karen 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 1937. Bror von Blixen-Finecke and Denys Finch Hatton are Karen Blixen.

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Edward VIII

Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972), later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication in December of the same year.

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist.

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Ernst Udet

Ernst Udet (26 April 1896 – 17 November 1941) was a German pilot during World War I and a Luftwaffe Colonel-General (Generaloberst) during World War II.

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Eva Dickson

Eva Dickson (born Eva Lindström; 8 March 1905 – March 1938) was a Swedish explorer, rally driver, aviator and travel writer.

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Fairmont The Norfolk Hotel

The Fairmont Norfolk is a historic hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, and is managed by the luxury hotel chain Fairmont Hotels and Resorts.

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Family seat

A family seat, sometimes just called seat, is the principal residence of the landed gentry and aristocracy.

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Freddie Guest

Frederick Edward Guest, (14 June 1875 – 28 April 1937) was a British politician best known for being Chief Whip of Prime Minister David Lloyd George's Coalition Liberal Party, 1917–1921.

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Frederick III of Denmark

Frederick III (Frederik; 18 March 1609 – 9 February 1670) was King of Denmark and Norway from 1648 until his death in 1670.

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George Washington Vanderbilt III

George Washington Vanderbilt III (September 23, 1914 – June 24, 1961) was an American yachtsman and scientific explorer who was a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family.

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German East Africa

German East Africa (GEA; Deutsch-Ostafrika) was a German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, the Tanzania mainland, and the Kionga Triangle, a small region later incorporated into Mozambique.

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Hans von Blixen-Finecke

Baron Hans Gustaf von Blixen-Finecke (25 July 1886 – 26 September 1917) was a Swedish officer and equestrian who won a bronze medal in dressage at the 1912 Summer Olympics. Bror von Blixen-Finecke and Hans von Blixen-Finecke are Swedish nobility and Swedish twins.

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Hovjägmästare

Hovjägmästare in Sweden was a court official who supervised the Kungliga Hovjägeristaten at the Royal Court of Sweden and the royal hunting parks.

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Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere

Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere, (28 April 1870 – 13 November 1931), styled The Honourable from birth until 1887, was a British peer.

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International Harvester

The International Harvester Company (often abbreviated IH or International) was an American manufacturer of agricultural and construction equipment, automobiles, commercial trucks, lawn and garden products, household equipment, and more.

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John III of Sweden

John III (Johan III, Juhana III; 20 December 1537 – 17 November 1592) was King of Sweden from 1569 until his death.

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Kano (city)

Kano (Ajami: كَنُواْ) is a city in northern Nigeria and the capital of Kano State.

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Karen Blixen

Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (born Dinesen; 17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote in Danish and English. Bror von Blixen-Finecke and Karen Blixen are British Kenya people.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.

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Kisangani

Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville or Stanleystad) is the capital of Tshopo province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Klaus Maria Brandauer

Klaus Maria Brandauer (born Klaus Georg Steng; 22 June 1943) is an Austrian actor and director.

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Kolkata

Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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List of big-game hunters

This list of famous big-game hunters includes sportsmen and sportswomen who gained fame largely or solely because of their big-game hunting exploits.

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List of ministers of foreign affairs of Denmark

This is a list of foreign ministers of Denmark since the establishment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1848.

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Markham baronets

There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Markham, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

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Marmaduke Furness, 1st Viscount Furness

Marmaduke Furness, 1st Viscount Furness (29 October 1883 – 6 October 1940) was a British shipping magnate and during his lifetime one of the richest men in the world.

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Mombasa

Mombasa is a coastal city in southeastern Kenya along the Indian Ocean.

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Muthaiga Country Club

The Muthaiga Country Club is a country club in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Naivasha

Naivasha is a town in Nakuru County, Kenya, north west of Nairobi.

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Näsbyholm Castle

Näsbyholm Castle (Näsbyholms slott) is a manor at Skurup Municipality Scania, Sweden.

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Ngong Hills

The Ngong Hills are peaks in a ridge along the Great Rift Valley, located southwest near Nairobi, in southern Kenya.

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Out of Africa

Out of Africa is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen.

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Out of Africa (film)

Out of Africa is a 1985 American epic romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, and starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford.

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Pauline Pfeiffer

Pauline Marie Pfeiffer (July 22, 1895 – October 1, 1951) was an American journalist and the second wife of writer Ernest Hemingway.

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Peter Hathaway Capstick

Peter Hathaway Capstick (1940–1996) was an American hunter and author.

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Philip Percival

Philip Hope Percival (1886–1966) was an English-born renowned white hunter and early safari guide in colonial Kenya.

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Professional hunter

A professional hunter (less frequently referred to as market or commercial hunter and regionally, especially in Britain and Ireland, as professional stalker or gamekeeper) is a person who hunts and/or manages game by profession.

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Sahara

The Sahara is a desert spanning across North Africa.

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Silk Road

The Silk Road was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century.

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Stephen Hunter

Stephen Hunter (born March 25, 1946, Kansas City, Missouri) is an American novelist, essayist, and film critic.

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Swedish nobility

The Swedish nobility (Swedish: Adeln or Ridderskapet och Adeln, Knighthood and Nobility) has historically been a legally and/or socially privileged class in Sweden, and part of the so-called frälse (a derivation from Old Swedish meaning free neck).

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The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway.

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White hunter

White hunter is a literary term used for professional big game hunters of European descent, from all over the world, who plied their trade in Africa, especially during the first half of the 20th century.

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Winston Frederick Churchill Guest

Winston Frederick Churchill Guest (May 20, 1906 – October 25, 1982) was an Anglo-American polo champion and a member of the Guest family of Britain.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bror_von_Blixen-Finecke

Also known as Bror Blixen-Finecke.

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Bror von Blixen-Finecke, the Glossary

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See also

Immigrants to the British Empire

Karen Blixen

Road incident deaths in Sweden

Swedish emigrants

Swedish emigrants to Kenya

References