Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll
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Josslyn Victor Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll, premier peer of Scotland (born May 11, 1901; died January 24, 1941) was murdered at an intersection on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital of Nairobi while living in a small community of upper-class British colonials known as Happy Valley. He was found shot to death in his car several miles down the road from the home of Sir John Henry (Jock) Delves Broughton, 57. Broughton's wife Diana, 27, had been planning to elope with the Earl.
Broughton was tried for the murder but was acquitted in a trial that became the sensation of what was then British East Africa.
The incident inspired James Fox's 1982 investigative book White Mischief, which was in 1987 adapted into the film of the same title by Michael Radford.
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| Preceded by Victor Hay |
Earl of Erroll 1585–1941 |
Succeeded by Diana Hay |
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