Memoirs of Maurice B. Tennent - 'Lord Portman. who had become the fourth partner as already stated, I had met when he came to stay at the same hotel as myself at Eastbourne, England together with his newly wedded wife. They were expected to be arriving at any time now at 'Chepsioni'. There was a small bungalow not far off into which I was going to move for the convenience of Mr & Mrs Portman. ........…..

Whereas I had arrived in June, Portman had arrived on 'Chepsioni' only a month later and he had got busy immediately in building a very adequate house for himself and his wife, so that I was left carrying on with the farming business whilst he was left exclusively attending to his rather palatial sized house. By this time also the four original partners (Portman, Ney, Butler, Beresford Tennent) had been bought out and Portman and I were left sharing the farm on a 50/50 basis. Would that it could have remained like that, but, Mrs Portman was a person much more inclined to a London life in Portman Square than a life in primitive Kenya with the result that Portman asked me if I would buy him out. The price he was asking was very reasonable and gave him no profit and I accepted it, though it entailed raising a mortgage and I found myself in debt for the first time in my life. ....'  

Mischief - at dinner at Muthaiga with Broughton etc on the night of Erroll's murder .......... On the eve of the preliminary hearing Gerry Portman was found naked, beaten unconscious, lying at the foot of a staircase in his own house ....... he had been clubbed on the head by the irate husband of his African maid, whom he had tried to seduce.

Debrett - formerly Capt. RASC

Rift Valley - Member of the Rift Valley Sports Club - Jan 1929 - Elected - 26 Apr 1927 - Hon. G.W.L. Portman [sic]