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Evan Frederic Morgan: Viscount Tredegar The Final Affairs: Financial and Carnal
BOOK HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE
· A 4- page timeline on Evan's life and times- from the cradle to the grave.
· Over 350 End Notes with checkable sources relating to the text of the book.
· Fragments about Evan ( over 100 pages) with many new photographs of him and his crowd.
· A backward glance at the name of " Morgan" its Cymric origins and Arthurian legend.
· Evan's 'La folie de la grandeur'. Extracts from Evan's letters to his Oxford friend Cyril Hughes Hartmann, a fellow poet who like Evan suffered from lung disease. There is a fascinating yarn about Evan's pranks as a house guest of Cyril's in the Great War period and another revealing Evan's great affinity for handling birds.
· A terrifying story of how Evan's sister Gwyneth was almost deliberately drowned in the 'Cow Bathroom' at Tredegar House in 1905.
· Lady Katharine Tredegar's attraction to birds is further appraised for the benefit of those still making mischief out of Evan's tall tales about his mother's hobby of making bird nests.
· A closer look at Evan's friendship with The Prince of Wales ( later Edward VIII) and Prince George ( later Duke of Kent ).
· The full text of Evan's monologue ' The Monk's Chant' published in 1920 as a response to the rumours that he was giving up his birthright and becoming a monk.
· A look at two of Evan's heroes, his Uncle David Carnegie ( who was killed by a poisoned arrow in Africa ) and Godfrey Morgan, the 2nd Lord Tredegar who was involved in the Charge of the Light Brigade of 1854.
· A very comprehensive narrative (of over 70 pages) on how Evan's Executors wrapped by his financial affairs including calling in his assets and sorting out his arrears of surtax of over £200,000.
· How the Inland Revenue spent more than a decade before closing Evan's tax files.
· Details of how a compromise solution was reached to save the Morgan family name over the small army of local Newport and Surrey traders whose bills lay unpaid at Evan's death in 1949. An Appendix to the book list the names and details of these traders.
· A reproduction of Evan's Last Will and Testament.
· A 4- page timeline on Evan's life and times- from the cradle to the grave.
· Over 350 End Notes with checkable sources relating to the text of the book.
· Fragments about Evan ( over 100 pages) with many new photographs of him and his crowd.
· A backward glance at the name of " Morgan" its Cymric origins and Arthurian legend.
· Evan's 'La folie de la grandeur'. Extracts from Evan's letters to his Oxford friend Cyril Hughes Hartmann, a fellow poet who like Evan suffered from lung disease. There is a fascinating yarn about Evan's pranks as a house guest of Cyril's in the Great War period and another revealing Evan's great affinity for handling birds.
· A terrifying story of how Evan's sister Gwyneth was almost deliberately drowned in the 'Cow Bathroom' at Tredegar House in 1905.
· Lady Katharine Tredegar's attraction to birds is further appraised for the benefit of those still making mischief out of Evan's tall tales about his mother's hobby of making bird nests.
· A closer look at Evan's friendship with The Prince of Wales ( later Edward VIII) and Prince George ( later Duke of Kent ).
· The full text of Evan's monologue ' The Monk's Chant' published in 1920 as a response to the rumours that he was giving up his birthright and becoming a monk.
· A look at two of Evan's heroes, his Uncle David Carnegie ( who was killed by a poisoned arrow in Africa ) and Godfrey Morgan, the 2nd Lord Tredegar who was involved in the Charge of the Light Brigade of 1854.
· A very comprehensive narrative (of over 70 pages) on how Evan's Executors wrapped by his financial affairs including calling in his assets and sorting out his arrears of surtax of over £200,000.
· How the Inland Revenue spent more than a decade before closing Evan's tax files.
· Details of how a compromise solution was reached to save the Morgan family name over the small army of local Newport and Surrey traders whose bills lay unpaid at Evan's death in 1949. An Appendix to the book list the names and details of these traders.
· A reproduction of Evan's Last Will and Testament.
206 pages, Paperback
First published October 30, 2014
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