hills from my home, he remarked that then he would like to be buried there himself as well. Since then, sometimes when we drove out in the hills, Denys had said; ‘Let us drive as far as our graves." Later, his brother erected an obelisk at the gravesite upon which he placed a simple brass plaque inscribed with Finch Hatton's name, the dates of his birth and death and an extract from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's narrative poem the Rime of the Ancient Mariner: "He prayeth well, who loveth well both man and bird and beast". The co-ordinates of the gravesite are: . According to Out of Africa, there is a memorial plaque on a footbridge at Eton. The bridge is inscribed with the words "Famous in these fields and by his many friends greatly beloved. Denys Finch Hatton 1900–1906"—the dates refer to his attendance at Eton. Fictional portrayals Finch Hatton was portrayed by Robert Redford in the 1985 film Out of Africa. See also List of famous big game hunters Footnotes References Too Close to the Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton (2006) by Sara Wheeler Out of Isak Dinesen (1998) by Linda G. Donelson The Eton College Chronicle (21 May 1931) Silence Will Speak (1977) by Errol Trzebinski The Lives of Beryl Markham (1993) by Errol Trzebinski Out of Africa (1937) by Isak Dinesen (Pseudonym of Karen Blixen) 1887 births 1931 deaths Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents British emigrants to Kenya British hunters Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford Younger sons of earls Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Kenya Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1931 People educated at West Downs School Denys Karen Blixen White Kenyan people People educated at Eton College