Over my Shoulder - 'He was a man well known to me by reputation as one of the most highly respected sheep men of the early days. But, of all the men in those early days of sheep-making history, David Begg unhesitatingly passed the accolade to Galbraith Cole, for his constructive work of documentation on the upgrading of the Masai brown-haired ewe into the beginnings of a wool-carrying sheep.  David Begg had come to Kenya in 1925 to work for Dr Doering on the huge farm Waterloo situated above Naivasha. This property was later bought by Sir John Ramsden and renamed Marula.   

Letter from Mrs Caroline Smith, a niece - 'A Man who loved Horses' - This is not really an appreciation. It is only the feelings of one man at the loss of a friend who is no longer there to share a joke with or buy a horse from. Over 28 years I managed to buy 4 horses from David and in all cases it took about 3 months and the pertinacity and desperation of a poacher extracting elephant tusks to get him to name a price. I don't think he really liked selling his horses. This was a direct contrast to what he was like when it came to mounting incompetents for polo. For weeks when I first arrived I used to go down to Manyatta ....... it was called something else then ........ on Sundays and be sure of a chukka or two on one or another of David's horses. They were the sort of horses that made a minus two worth his weight in gold so long as he didn't fall off and had they been mine I would have lent them to nobody. In between chukkas there was always David, if you asked, to say why you had been blown up for dangerous play or where you should have been to neutralise the man you should have been marking and hadn't. Most of the up-country polo tournaments were played on the fields on David's farm. Recently of course the farm has been the venue of eventing and similar neck risking activities. Rest in peace Bwana Begg. Wherever horses gallop ... during polo or racing, showing or eventing, you will be remembered with pleasure and gratitude. - Flatcatcher - Two.  

Mischief - a Scotsman known to the remaining whites around the Kinangop as 'Bwana Begg', knew Josslyn Hay well. He lives in a house of austere Highland decor, beside those same polo grounds at Gilgil which he owns, and which he cut out himself 50 years ago. He plays a skilful game, aged over 70 and still speaks with a strong Scots accent.

EA Stud Book 1954 - Thoroughbred Stallions - D. Begg, Gilgil

Wolseley-Lewis - David Begg, a crofter, who came out to run Delamere's sheep. He had a bad start because the imported sheep kept dying. It was eventually discovered to be a lacjk of a trace mineral element, cobalt. David started on his own and did well, getting in with the polo crowd, the ground being on his farm at Gilgil.

Naivasha - In 1909 Dr. Doering, a Johannesburg dentist, was allocated land on condition that he imported some thousand Merino sheep from South Africa. This ranch was known as Waterloo Estate, and ran from the present Morendat bridge to Gilgil on the west side of the main road. At a later date, about 1925, David Begg, a Scotsman, was brought out to manage the flocks and did so most successfully, continuing in his work after Sir John Ramsden bought the land in 1927.