David Gordon Hines (8 February 1915 – 14 March 2000)[1][self-published source] was a chartered accountant who as a British colonial administrator developed farming co-operatives in Tanganyika and later in Uganda.

[2] David Hines was born in Fenton (now part of the potteries town Stoke-on-Trent) in Staffordshire, England on 8 February 1915.

In 1938 he sailed on a Union-Castle liner to Kenya to start work with accountants in Kisumu, only to find that his new firm had just been taken over by his old employers Cooper Brothers.

[3] During the Second World War, David Hines served in Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Madagascar, Burma and Tanganyika.

Northern Kenya's 800-mile Ethiopia border In the 1/6 Battalion of the King's African Rifles, he commanded a squadron of 20 light-armoured cars assigned the task of defending 800 miles (1,300 km) of the northern border of Kenya against a possible Italian invasion from neighbouring Ethiopia.

Marriage While on leave in Nairobi, he was invited to be a substitute player at the Muthaiga Golf Club: he met his wife-to-be Bertha Eunice Grice (born 5 September 1909 in Chiswick, London).

Wedding guests in Karen included as their witness George Adamson, the Baba ya Simba (father of lions in Swahili) and his wife Joy, author of the book Born Free.

In Addis Ababa, Hines helped rescue numerous Italians and Germans who had surrendered; he saw many others beside the roads who had been crucified by the local Shifta people.

The plane flipped over as we landed: the pilot was killed, and the rest of us were left hanging upside down in our seat belts.

In the early 1950s in up-country Tanganyika, our Wilson Airways Dove Rapide ran into a ditch on landing: the pilot asked for some plyers to disconnect the battery!!

The only car smash I can remember was when Beb [David's wife] and I hit a buffalo or buck in the dark coming down from the Kinangop to a dance at the Naivasha Club -- but it only broke a headlamp.

Due to their years working in Uganda and both speaking Swahili, Hines and a veterinary specialist were surprised to be telephoned in their homes by the World Bank to join a delegation of Americans to go to Uganda to get it started again after the Idi Amin dictatorship era of thousands of tortures and massacres.

In all the fine hotels, everything had been removed – baths, basins, lavatories – and if you were lucky, someone brought you a tin of hot water to shave.