The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery (63 page)

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$128 million at today’s values.

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The £36,000 Henry owed his brothers and sisters under the terms of his father’s will.

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£612,000 at today’s values.

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Charlie Lindsay had died of cancer, aged sixty-three, the previous spring.

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Senior physicians appointed by the Lord Chancellor to examine wealthy Chancery patients in asyhms throughout England and Wales.

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Sir George Arthur, Private Secretary to Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, Secretary
of State for War.

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Henry Cust, politician and editor, 1861–1917. His affair with Violet began soon after her marriage and continued into the early 1900s. He was the father of Diana, Violet’s youngest daughter.

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His elder brother, Charles Bunbury, later 11th Baronet.

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Francis Charles Needham, 4th Earl of Kilmorey, Captain, Life Guards.

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Great-grandson of the Marquis of Bute, killed in action, 1914.

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His elder brother, Hugo, Lord Elcho, killed in action at Gallipoli, 1915.

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Harold Tennant, Under-Secretary of War 1912–16.

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Aubrey Herbert, second son of the 4th Earl of Carnarvon.

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Percy Wyndham, grandson of the 1st Baron Leconfield.

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John Manners, eldest son of the 2nd Baron Manners.

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George Edward Gascoyne-Cecil, son of Lord Edward, fourth son of the 3rd Marquis of Salisbury.

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Captain Hon. Rupert Keppel, third son of the 8th Earl of Albemarle.

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John and Charlie collected medieval tiles. Their collection included a number of whole pavements from Halesowen Abbey and Rievaulx.

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‘Abandon all hope, ye who enter here’ – the supposed inscription at the entrance to Hell from Dante’s
Divine Comedy
.

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Edward Stuart Wortley, the commanding officer of the North Midlands.

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The First Battle of Ypres, 19 October–22 November 1914.

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The equivalent of almost $1 billion at today’s values.

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ADC to General Stuart Wortley.

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The name then for Foulkes’s Special Brigade.

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Commander, Royal Engineers.

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Rothesay Stuart Wortley, the general’s son.

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Tommy Bouche, Master of the Belvoir Hounds.

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16 Arlington Street.

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Approximately £7 million at today’s values.

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The Revd Knox, private chaplain to the Duke.

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Guy Brooke, later 6th Earl of Warwick, ADC to Sir John French.

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The Marquis of Titchfield, heir to the Duke of Portland.

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Later Viscount Norwich.

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DeputyAssistant Quartermaster.

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John’s horse.

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Slang for a service-issue rifle.

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Eddie Grant, a fellow staff officer.

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The Duke’s eldest son.

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The Duke’s second son.

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Approximately £75 million at today’s values.

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Approximately £225,000 at today’s values.

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Approximately £7.5 million at today’s values.

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Jacqueline de Portalès, granddaughter of the Comte de Portalis.

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Bridget Colebrooke, eldest daughter of first and last Baron Colebrooke, later married to Lord Victor Paget.

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Frances married Hon. Captain Guy Charteris, the second son of Hugo, 11th Earl of Wemyss, on 23 July 1912.

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Approximately £125,000 at today’s values.

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£625,000 at today’s values.

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£94,000 at today’s values.

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Includes the war dead from the nearby hamlets of Easthorpe and Normanton

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Approximately £34,500,000 at today’s values.