WELSH MYSTERY 1925
Honourable Gwyneth Ericka Morgan
‘ A Beautiful Nuisance’
'POOR GWYNETH'
Honourable Gwyneth Ericka Morgan (1895-1924)
Poor Gwyneth!
The Honourable Gwyneth Ericka Morgan, was
the only daughter of Courtenay Morgan, the third Lord Tredegar. She was one of
the Bright Young People of the post Great War era who disappeared from a house in
Wimbledon in 1924 and whose body was later discovered in the River Thames.
Gwyneth was born in London in 1895, the
second child of Courtenay Morgan and Katharine Carnegie, later Lord and Lady
Tredegar, of Tredegar Park, Monmouthshire. The family history on both her
father and mothers sides is filled with a variety of the rich, the famous and
the notorious. The Morgans had their roots in South Wales.
The Carnegies in the Highlands of Scotland. Gwyneth spent a great
deal of her life in London, or abroad, and in the Surrey home maintained by her
mother, near Dorking. She also spent time with her maternal grandparents, the
Earl and Countess of Southesk, at Kinnaird
Castle, and with her brother Evan
Morgan ( 1893-1949) and her parents at sea on board the family yacht Liberty. She spent part of
her childhood at Ruperra Castle, South Wales.
Talented, attractive, an heiress to the Tredegar fortunes from land, coal and
agriculture, she became a part of the rituals of the great and good of London
and Highland Society in the years before and after the First World War. Court,
Northern Meeting, Balls, the Shooting Season and health and gambling trips to
Cannes, Paris and Italy. Gwyneth had an adventurous
streak and a reputation for being something of a bohemian. She was however
struck down with ill-health after the excesses of high living and overseas
travel. She mixed with some East-End and West End
types that her family disapproved of and they warned her about the
consequences. Coming into some perilous situations involving dangerous people,
and with the increasing concerns of her family and friends she spent her last
years moving between rented accommodation as though on the run. Receiving
medical care from the most famous physician in the country, Sir John Atkins,
Gwyneth suddenly disappeared in December 1924, her body was later pulled out of
the Thames five months later in May 1925. Was
it an Accident, or was it foul play?
And was it Gwyneth's body that was pulled from the River Thames?
Writers Monty Dart and Will Cross spent
7 years researching Gwyneth’s story for a book they published in 2012, entitled
“ A Beautiful Nuisance.”
Copies of the book are still available directly from WILLIAM CROSS, FSA SCOT, and also on ebay and Amazon
EMAIL WILLIAM CROSS williecross@aol.com
A Beautiful Nuisance
The Life and Death of Hon. Gwyneth Ericka Morgan
By Monty Dart and William Cross
EMAIL WILLIAM CROSS williecross@aol.com
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