Too Close to the Sun (24 page)

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Henry Finch Hatton, thirteenth Earl of Winchilsea

Nan Finch Hatton with (left to right) Toby, Denys, and Topsy, photographed in Sleaford in 1889

Denys and his mother

Toby and Denys at Haverholme

Haverholme Priory. Its poetry absorbed its absurdity.

Denys went on to captain the Oxford University golf team.

Topsy and Denys

Julian Grenfell and Denys, puppeteering in the Pop club at Eton, 1904

Denys as a teenager, photographed by his mother

Toby with the Haverholme gamekeeper

Nan, Henry, and Margaretta at the Priory in 1919

Denys at Eton: “Autocrat and democrat, an adored tyrant”

Denys, Nan, and Henry in Haverholme Park in 1922