Book Midden Publishing

 Aspects of Evan 

 The Last Viscount Trdegar

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  ‘hunting, shooting and fishing’ family was shaken by his escapades. In the Great War he dodged rat-infested trenches on account of a weak chest. Claiming he was renouncing pleasure and his birth right, he turned to mysticism and Roman Catholicism, studying at Beda College, Rome, whilst acting as a Papal Chamberlain at the Vatican. In WW2 he was working at Wing House, in the Special Section  Carrier Pigeon Service. An incautious comment in front of two visitors from the Girl Guide movement (they were at Wing House as part of a  publicity campaign for the Guides) led to his downfall. The irony is, that Evan, who claimed a special affinity to birds, should be brought down to earth by a carrier pigeon! This book will amuse and inform ‘Evanites’  and with over 500 footnotes for those who wish to follow up on his erratic but fascinating life.