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proposal on account of what she referred to as a dwelling not befitting of her taste and standard. She would even refer to the house as a “chicken coop”.This prompted
Maurice Egerton to construct the imposing castle in 1938 supposedly to impress the lady, who for the second time turned down his marriage offer. With the interruption of the Second World War the construction went on for sixteen years with its completion in 1954. Upon refusing to marry Mr. Egerton, Victoria took off immediately to England. With this humiliation, a distraught and angry Lord Egerton made a monumental resolution: never to engage women in his life and never to marry. No woman was to be allowed into his home for whatever reason. His friends and farm workers were compelled to leave their wives or girl friends at the gate whenever they wanted to see Lord Egerton. In his will Lord Egerton stated that the agricultural college he had founded was to be a male only institution and his wishes were granted for several years until the government of Kenya under pressure of lack of educational facilities directed admission of women into the college and subsequently expanded the institution to present day Egerton University. Intentionally and as per his wishes the authorities retained his name: naming the college and its expansive estate after Egerton. Lord Maurice Egerton stayed in the castle for only four years until his death in 1958 aged 83 years. In his death bed Lord Egerton was attended by a total of eighty medical personnel and care givers largely drawn from Britain. The castle has received legions of visitors who marvel at this vestige of colonial opulence.
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