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