A Secret Between Gentlemen: Suspects, Strays, and Guests

A Secret Between Gentlemen: Suspects, Strays, and Guests is the second volume in this biographical trilogy. It seeks to fill a large gap in the account - the names and histories of the other gentlemen involved in Lord Battersea’s scandal.

Detailed within are the life stories of thirty-nine suspects, both prominent and obscure, who are known to have been friends or associates of Lord Battersea. Also included is material relevant to the background of the Scandal, including a transcript of The Pleasaunce Visitors Book.

For anyone with a fascination for the story, this volume of over 600 pages, including 50 pages of photographs, provides additional illuminating context for that once-hidden story of 1902, and the lives it changed forever.

This is the current SIXTH EDITION.

PART I - SUSPECTS: - Viscount Esher - The Earl of Rosebery - Alfred de Rothschild - The Duke of Argyll - Quintin Hogg - Lord Ronald Gower - Hugh Weguelin - Albert Stopford - Geoffry Wheatly Cobb - Ernest Crawley - Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Collins - Sir Robert Collins - The Hon. Spencer Lyttelton - Arthur Brown - Sir Alexander Hood, the Duke of Bronte - The Earl of Euston - The Hon. Alexander Yorke - Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace - Viscount Harcourt - Maurice De Mauny Talvande - Frank Podmore - E.F. Benson - Earl Russell - Earl Farquhar - Earl Beauchamp - The Hon. Charles Harris - Oscar Browning - The Earl of Portsmouth - Arnold Morley - Baron Killanin - Frank Schuster - George Maquay - Hugo Wemyss - Baron Welby - The Earl of Sandwich - Augustus Hare - Hamilton Aïdé - Harry Melvill - Major Sir John Thorold.

PART II - STRAYS: The Cunliffe-Owens - One Law For Some: Alexander Meyrick Broadley - The Bachelors’ Club And Its Founders - The Royal Windsor Tapestry Manufactory - The Modern Man And Homosexuality - The Pleasures Of The Continent - Practical Politics And Hushing Up: Maundy GregoryIII.

PART III - GUESTS: The Pleasaunce Visitors Book.

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