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Evan
Morgan, poet, artist, and escapist, the last Viscount Tredegar shocked his way through
Eton, Oxford, Rome, North Africa, Bali, Canada and America. The Bright Young Things of London’s Café Royal Society
toasted him in aphorisms. Ogling dowagers indulged him whilst his straight-laced huntin,
shootin a’ fishin family, with Royal vestiges was shaken by his escapades. In the Great War he dodged rat-infested trenches
on account of a weak chest, the bain of his existence. Claiming he was renouncing pleasure and his birthright, he turned to
mysticism and Roman Catholicism, studying at Beda College, Rome, whilst acting as a Papal Chamberlain at the Vatican.
Despite
being gay Evan attracted iconic women and saw off two wives. He transformed the austere family pile of Tredegar House in South
Wales for rave weekend parties and black magic rituals. Footmen in powdered wigs received houseguests from Hollywood stars
to the satanist Alistair Crowley. Evan’s fall (like Lucifer) came after
his Court Martial under the Official Secrets Act in 1943. His health crumbled, as did his family’s fortune. Here for
the first time is a unique insight into Evan’s eventful world of eccentricity, travel and adventure. There will never
be another Evan Morgan.
ISBN 10
1-90591415-6
ISBN 13 978-1-905914-15-9
Published by
William P. Cross
Book Midden Publishing
58 Sutton Road
Newport Gwent NP19 7JF
Aspects
of Evan : The Last Viscount Tredegar
CONTENTS
OF BOOK
I An Eccentric and Fantasist; Two
Wives - Lois Sturt and Princess Olga; Other
attempts to write Evan’s biography; Evan Outed! Evan in Bali, Indonesia:
Tuan Raja Evan’s Estate and final financial affairs; Catholic conversion
and death wish; Requiem Mass at Buckfast Abbey ; Three Executors meet at Honeywood
House, Dorking; Evan proves a burden on his Executors.
II
Evan’s Birth, Parents Family Roots; London Town House; Hunting and country
pursuits; Maternal Grandparents. III Education
and Coming of Age;Schooldays : Brighton; Eton College 1907-10; Painter and Exhibitor in the Paris Salon; Shadows Behind Coming Of Age in 1914; As a young man : aspiring poet and heir; IV Oxford Days; Evan
by Cyril Hartmann; How Evan Saw Himself; Mother Fixation; Young Evan. V Café Royal and Eiffel Tower Restaurant; The Drug Culture;
Evan the budding Poet is published.
VI
Great War; Evan in Uniform; In Whitehall; W H Davies and at the Eisteddfod; Evan and Frances Stevenson; VII Evan and Osmond
Esmonde; Evan and Ronald Firbank. VIII Attempt to renounce his birthright for
The Catholic Church; Becoming a Monk; The Vatican; Vatican Secret Archives: Application to be a Papal Chamberlain; Finest
hour as a Papal Chamberlain; Evan and the Cardinal; Student at Beda College,
Evan in Dublin and Reveals the Secrets of the Vatican.
IX
1920s; Evan’s Parties : London; The Hoaxer and Evan’s 34th Birthday; Nancy
Cunard; Evan and Politics : X Marriages and Mayhem; Evan marries Lois Sturt;
After the Wedding; London Home in Mayfair;
Evan Fund Raising in East End; Evan the bird tamer bitten by a wolf and goes to Canada; Evan and Lois Co-exist together then
Split; William Butler Yeats was ejected by Lois; Evan and the Catholic Poetry
Society;Lois Angered.
XI Becomes Viscount Tredegar; Shame Over Ruperra Castle’s
tenants; Lois and Evan in USA; Death of Lois ;Tredegar House Estate; Tredegar House Parties and Guests;Honeywood House –
Parties; Menagerie; Stepping Out With Evan. XII Last decade; Evan and Crowley
exposed;Evan In London in the Blitz; Evan and Lord Alfred Douglas; Last Years : After the War; Last Male Conquests;What Evan
Did In The Second World War; Address to the House of Lords, by the King;The Court Martial of Evan Morgan; Nigel West’s
Book on MI5; National Archives File WO 71/1078;Evan and the Nazis; Hermann Goering?; Evan’s last time in Ireland and Capri;Evan Mourned and Mourns; ValeTo R .R.;Last Words; A Sonnet ; The transcript
of Evan’s Court Martial for offences against the Official Secrets Acts; From National Archives, Kew File reference WO
71/1078;
NOTES
;Thanks and Acknowledgements;About the Authors; Other Titles from Book Midden Publishing
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