Evan Frederic Morgan, Viscount Tredegar
The Final Affairs :Financial and CarnalISBN 978 1 905914 24 1
A controversial New Book in late 2013 examines Evan's last carnal affairs and the state of his personal finances at his death in 1949
From the Author of
Not Behind Lace Curtains
The Hidden World of Evan, Viscount Tredegar
ISBN 978 1 905914 21 0
For further details please contact William Cross
Evan's Relatives and Friends in High Places
Evan Frederic Morgan ( 1893-1949) is featured in this picture ( back row, far right ) with HRH Queen Mary ( front row, centre ) and other members of the British Royal Family, ( including Evan's Carnegie cousins, Lord Charles Carnegie ( back row, far left ) and his wife Princess Maud Duff ( front row, far left ), in Scotland in 1931. The young boy in the front row is James Carnegie, ( only child of Charles and Maud ) he is the sole survivor today of this group, he is now the Duke of Fife and head of the Carnegie clan. Evan's mother was Lady Katharine Agnes Blanche Carnegie, half sister of Lord Carnegie's father Charles Noel Carnegie ( 10th Earl of Southesk) who appears in this picture ( top row, second from left ).
NEW BOOK
From
WIlliam Cross,
well known
author or co-
author of the
only existing
three books
featuring the
true account of
the remarkable
life and times of
Evan Frederic
Morgan,
(1893-1949),
Viscount
Tredegar, of
Tredegar Park
Newport, South
Wales.
Spilling the Beans on Evan Morgan's Last affairs, financial and carnal
Evan Frederick Morgan ( 1893-1949), 2nd and last Viscount Tredegar died at Honeywood House, Dorking, Surrey on 27 April 1949. There was no heir to the viscountcy and Evan's elderly uncle Frederic George Morgan ( 1873-1954) inherited the barony of Tredegar, originally granted in 1859, and with it the Baronetcy of Morgan, granted in 1792. Later, in 1954 Evan's cousin John Morgan ( 1908-1962) became the 6th and last Lord Tredegar. John died without leaving a son.
Evan struggled with increasing ill health in his final years. He was also a much changed figure following some troubled events during and after the Second World War, including a humiliating Court Marital, a tangled divorce from his second wife, Princess Olga Dolgorouky, and his exposure as a homosexual deviant, all of which resulted in Evan being cut off socially by many relatives ( especially his Royal cousins ) and he was even snubbed some of his friends.
Several of Evan's closest male friends were estranged as they were worried that they might also be brought down in the aftermath of Evan's shame and disgrace, fully explained in the recent book by William Cross entitled " Not Behind Lace Curtains : The Hidden World of Evan, Viscount Tredegar".
Homosexuality was illegal in Britain at the time of Evan's last years. The lawyers focused on covering up the seams of Evan's scandalous gay past linking him to vice and a variety of men and boys across several continents.
Combating terminal cancer, Evan virtually closed down the family seat of Tredegar House, Newport, South Wales, whilst he considered his financial options, marriage being one solution, Irish citizenship another. A return to his calling in the Roman Catholic Church provided a quiet, spiritual sanctuary at stressful times, and with it the wise counsel of the monks of Buckfast Abbey. The Abbot of Buckfast promised Evan he could buried at the Abbey after his death.
Evan continued to travel to his favourite holiday sex haunts in Thailand, Italy and the west coast of Ireland, spending his dying days in Britain at his aging mother's residence in Surrey.
Evan had always enjoyed a larger than life public profile, a coveted place in Society and in the high life, spending his money freely. The truth was now stark. His own personal finances were in tatters, leading to him being forced to sell off some of the Morgan family heirlooms.
In the years following Evan's death the Inland Revenue struggled for more than a decade to unravel Evan's fiscal affairs, and as the lawyers and his Executors agitated to track down the details of Evan's assets, and minimise the damage and uproar that some aspects of Evan's sexual adventures could bring, the whole situation was a huge tinderbox waiting to explode.
Not least those who were responsible for tying up Evan's family estate had to provide for the continuance of it's wealth base of the Tredegar Settled Lands and find a solution to the issues of death duties, surtax and focus on how from a bankrupt state Evan's promised dependents could be paid off includng an army of small trade creditors in Newport and Dorking.
In this new book, by William Cross draws on previously unpublished sources from several Archives. Cross spills the beans on Evan's final affairs, carnal and financial, and explains how one great Welsh family and Estate was finally brought down after hundreds of years of fabulous wealth fame and glory.
