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The Happy Valley set was largely a group of hedonistic British and Anglo-Irish aristocrats and adventurers who settled in the "Happy Valley" region of the Wanjohi Valley,〔 "Around the Aberdares – Home with Hostelbookers" (Aberdare Range), Rough Guides Ltd., Hostelbookers.com, 2006, webpage: (HBookers-Kenya-Aberdares ). 〕 near the Aberdare mountain range, in colonial Kenya and Uganda between the 1920s and the 1940s. From the 1930s the group became infamous for its decadent lifestyles and exploits following reports of drug use and sexual promiscuity.〔(Storm clouds over Happy Valley ) The Telegraph. 16 May 2009〕 The area around Naivasha was one of the first to be settled in Kenya by white people and was one of the main hunting grounds of the 'set'. 〔 "Naivasha, Kenya" (tourist information), go2africa.com, 2006, webpage: (Go2A ). 〕 The colonial town of Nyeri, Kenya, to the east of the Aberdare Range, was the centre of Happy Valley settlers. 〔 "Cultural Safari" (concerning Aberdare & Happy Valley settlers), MagicalKenya.com, webpage: (MK ). 〕 The white community in Kenya in the years before the Second World War was divided into two distinct factions: settlers, on the one side, and colonial officials and tradesmen, on the other. Both were dominated by upper-middle-class and upper-class British and Irish (chiefly Anglo-Irish) people, but the two groups often disagreed on important matters ranging from land allocation to how to deal with the natives. Typically, the officials and tradesmen looked on the Happy Valley set with embarrassment. The height of the Happy Valley set's influence was in the late 1920s. The recession sparked by the 1929 Wall Street stock market crash greatly decreased the number of new arrivals to the Colony of Kenya and the influx of capital. Nevertheless, by 1939 Kenya had a white community of 21,000 people. Some of the notable members of the Happy Valley set were: * The 3rd Baron Delamere and his son and heir the 4th Baron Delamere * The Hon. Denys Finch Hatton * Sir Jock Delves Broughton and wife Diana Delves Broughton * Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll * Lady Idina Sackville * Alice de Janzé (cousin of J. Ogden Armour) and her husband Frédéric de Janzé; Others included Gilbert Colville, Hugh Dickenson, Jack and Nina Soames, Lady June Carberry (stepmother of Juanita Carberry), Dickie Pembroke, and Julian Lezzard. Author Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) had also been a friend of Lord Erroll. The lifestyle finally became untenable as the Mau Mau Uprising progressed during the 1950s. In recent years, descendants of the Happy Valley set have been appearing in the news, particularly the legal troubles of The Hon. Tom Cholmondeley, the great-grandson of the famous Lord Delamere. == Location == The Wanjohi Valley lies on the slopes of Aberdare ranges, near Aberdare National Park,〔 east of the Great Rift Valley.〔 The area around Wanjohi is Bushi, Miharati, Ndemi, kariamu and Olkalou. The area around Naivasha was one of the first to be settled by white people and one of the hunting grounds of the hedonistic Happy Valley set.〔 The area also includes Thomson's Falls. 〔(Happy Valley section in ''Vertical Land'' )〕 Happy Valley is not named after all the shenanigans that went on there in the 20s and 30s. Geoffrey Buxton, the first colonial farmer in the area, had moved up from the dry arid Rift Valley with its meagre rivers and a relentless dusty wind that gave Gilgil its name. And so, after finding his ideal farming country, he delightfully called this new haven, 'Happy Valley'.〔Juliet Barnes: The Ghosts of Happy Valley: Aurum Press Ltd (1 July 2013)〕 Some members of the Happy Valley set lived in Gilgil, Kenya, just north of Lake Elementaita. The colonial town of Nyeri in Central Province, to the east of the Aberdare Range, was the centre of Happy Valley settlers.〔 The town had the atmosphere of a sleepy English village, an impression fostered by the cool air and morning mists.〔 Outside Nyeri is The Outspan Hotel, a colonial landmark which became a place of pilgrimage for the world's Scouts.〔 A small cottage on the hotel grounds was the final home of Lord Baden-Powell and his wife, founder of the scouting movement, and he is buried outside Nyeri. The cottage has a small museum dedicated to Baden-Powell's life and memory.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Happy Valley set」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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