Notorious House Parties at Tredegar House: 1934-1938

Tredegar House : Weekend Parties, Frolics and Fun

 Evan Morgan, Lord Tredegar's

House Guests  1934-1938 

A NEW BOOK FROM WILLIAM CROSS

In its heyday of the 1920s and 1930s the country house weekend house party was an example in Britain of the 20^th century oozing class and propping up the flagging class structure. It was a ritual full of  frivolity.   Often, as in the case of South Wales, there were hundreds of families within a stone’s throw of the large mansions houses (like Tredegar House) who were struggling in poverty. [i] Two different worlds in the same town.

Evan  Morgan, the Lord of the Manor at  Tredegar  House, Newport  was one of  those who  staged  these large, lavish and lazy  weekend parties, whilst in the nearby hamlets of  Pill and Duffryn the unemployed tried to make ends meet.  In history,  the era was dubbed  “The Marching Thirties”.    

Evan’s parties are a  legend,  a  part of  the Evan - legacy  between 1934 and 1949  when he reigned supreme  as  the  last  Viscount  Tredegar .

In this book Newport Historian William Cross reveals the hundreds of people who were guests of Evan Morgan, Viscount Tredegar.

The book is available direct from the Author and on E-BAY and AMAZON.

CONTACT THE AUTHOR BY E-MAIL

williecross@aol.com

An illustrated talk is available on the book.

  

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[i] A good example of this comes from Christmas 1934  when  a concert was staged at the Olympia Cinema in Skinner Street , Newport on behalf of the Mayor of Newport’s Distress Fund for the poor in the town.

Tredegar House : Weekend Frolics and Fun - Evan Morgan's Notorious Parties

·        A new book about  Evan Morgan’s notorious weekend house parties  has been published by Book Midden Publishing.

·        The compiler is Newport writer/historian  William Cross, FSA Scot,  author of eight other books featuring members of the Morgan family.

“ You might find, among thirty guests, Mrs Rosa Lewis of the Cavendish Hotel, the King of Greece, [poet WB] Yeats, the Metropolitan of Thyatira, a Berlin hustler, Princess Arthur of Connaught,  a dog-breeding baroness from Hamburg, and so on and so on, while two distracted secretaries, Captain [Harry] Ware and ‘Mother S’ [Mrs. Emily Sutherland], somehow managed to make practical sense of what looked on the surface like another department of the Zoo.” 

Alan Pryce- Jones

Essential reading for those interested in Newport’s most famous family and their history  and those who want to know the truth about Evan’s hospitality and who he invited to stay under his 500 year old roof during his early years as the lord of the Manor.

The book is 150 pages long, over 55,000 words with over 400 End Notes. The main text  contains  over  100 images. There is also a  directory of over 300 guests whom Evan entertained, with biographical details, and dates when they visited Tredegar House,  some entries have photographs .

Further Enquiries about the book etc please contact

William Cross

58 Sutton Newport, Newport, NP 19 7JF

e-mail 

williecross@aol.com

THE BOOK IS AVAILABLE DIRECT FROM THE AUTHOR AND ON E-BAY AND AMAZON

21 October 2019  

Weekend House Parties at Tredegar House 1934-1938

Tredegar House : Weekend Parties, Frolics and Fun

 Evan Morgan, Lord Tredegar's

House Guests  1934-1938

By William Cross, FSA Scot

“  a succession of people – members of what is called a week-end house-party; men and women who come and go calling themselves “friends,” who are nevertheless infuriated if they don’t have the best of everything, and are bored to tears if it doesn’t overflow all over them all the time..” Anon.

 A NEW BOOK FROM WILLIAM CROSS

NEWPORT HISTORIAN

The book is 150 pages long, over 55,000 words with over 400 End Notes. The main text  contains  over  100 images. There is also a  directory of over 300 guests whom Evan entertained, with biographical details, and dates when they visited Tredegar House,  some entries have photographs .

AVAILABLE DIRECT FROM THE AUTHOR AND ON E-BAY AND AMAZON - LIMITED SUPPLY

AN ILLUSTRATED  TALK IS AVAILABLE FROM WILLIAM CROSS ABOUT THE BOOK


NEXT TALK

NEWPORT U3A  7 NOVEMBER 2019 

http://lecturelist.org/content/view_lecture/16498

Further Enquiries about the book etc please contact by e-mail/ post.

williecross@aol.com

William Cross

58 Sutton Newport, Newport,

NP 19 7JF

21 October 2019