Gravestone in Nairobi, Forest Road says - "The spirit which itself diversely drapes in plant or animal in myriad shapes Deem not that it can die The essence still abides The visionary form escapes."    

Best - A wild Englishman who had been everywhere and done everything before washing up in middle age on the shores of Nairobi. As a young man in the 1880's he had once wagered £100 to £25 that he could swim the Thames at Greenwich in frock coat, top hat and cane. He eventually reached the opposite bank, having been carried a mile and a quarter downstream by the tide, and immediately offered to repeat the trip in reverse for the same bet. There were no takers. Later he swam the Hellespont to keep his hand in, climbed the Matterhorn and performed numerous mountaineering feats in Mexico. He also became entangled with a gorgeous hoofer named La Belle Otéro, a fun female who screwed him for every penny he had before letting him out of her clutches. She wrote afterwards that she had had £100,000 out of him in six months, but in return had given full value for money. He agreed.

Shadows - Karen Blixen wrote - my old friend, uncle Charles Bulpett, had told me: 'The person who can take delight in a sweet time without wanting to learn it, in a beautiful woman without wanting to possess her, or in a magnificent head of game without wanting to shoot it - has not got a human heart.'  

Bror - Charles Bulpett is known all over Kenya - he hunted for many years in those parts in his great days. He still lives in Kenya, aged 84, plays bridge every evening and drives his car every day - a unique advertisement of the climate of Kenya. Lillibullero - party at Muthaiga 1933 ....... Uncle Charles had just reached his 80th year (but perhaps he was the youngest of us all); .….…

Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery - Charles William Lloyd Bulpett, British, age 87, died 11/7/39

Sportsmen - Mr Charles William Lloyd Bulpett, of Old Alresford House, Alresford, Hants. And 5, Half Moon Street, W., is a son of Mr George Bulpett, of Old Alresford, Hants, and was born in 1852, and educated at Rugby and Oxford. At Rugby he was an enthusiast at both football and cricket, and was a member of both the Twenty and the Eleven. He was also noted as a runner while at school, winning the well-known Crick Run twice, on each occasion in record time, and winning the mile, also in record time. At Oxford, despite a determination to achieve distinction in his studies, resulting in his taking a First-class in Final Schools, Mr Bulpett secured his double blue, being a member of the University Rugby football team, and at athletics winning the Oxford 3 miles. After leaving college, Mr Bulpett played cricket for Middlesex County Eleven, and also for Hampshire. He was also proficient as a wrestler, in the Cumberland and Westmoreland style, and on several occasions wrestled in public with John Graham, the well-known professional champion. Nor have cricket and football and the greater attraction of big game hunting kept him from excelling in other branches of sport, for in the late eighties, at Newmarket, Mr Bulpett on one occasion backed himself to run, walk and ride a mile - the three together within sixteen and a half minutes, and easily won the stake; whilst on another occasion at Greenwich when dining there with a large party of friends, one of the guests laid a bet that Mr Bulpett would not swim the Thames at that point fully dressed as he was. This was immediately done, and the offer made by himself to swim back again upon the same terms, but this thoroughly sporting offer was not accepted. Boxing in earlier days was also a very favourite pastime, and he was unusually proficient with the broadsword. For many years past ha has made an annual trip to Africa in pursuit of big game, and in this exciting and adventurous sport he has found his chief enjoyment. He was the first man to take a caravan from the Indian Ocean across Abyssinia down the Baro and Sobat rivers to the Nile and on to Khartum, and has made several shooting trips to the Upper Sudan and British East Africa, and in the course of these various expeditions has shot practically every variety of game to be obtained in these countries. Even for a big game hunter, accustomed to adventurous incidents in districts previously untrodden by white men, Mr Bulpett has experienced some more than ordinarily thrilling moments.

Cricinfo - He did not gain his cricket blue at Oxford, but enjoyed a reputation for other sporting activities. Over a level measured mile at Newmarket in 1887 he won a wager of £200 and £400 in bets by walking a mile, running a mile and riding a mile in less than 18 minutes. A year later, at the age of 35, he accomplished the feat again in better time and won a bet of £1,000 to £400.

Red Book 1919 - C. Bulpett - Chiromo - Nairobi

Gazette - Voters List 1936 - Charles William Lloyd Bulpett, Barrister-at-Law, Chiromo