During this period Lord Egerton was courting a blond English lady by name Victoria and was keen to settle with her.

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 this humiliation, a distraught and angry Lord Egerton made a monumental resolution: never to engage women in his life and never to marry.

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.

In his death bed Lord Egerton was attended by a total of eighty medical personnel and care givers largely drawn from Britain.