TREDEGAR HOUSE :WEEKEND PARTIES, FROLICS AND FUN: EVAN MORGAN'S NOTORIOUS HOUSE PARTIES

NEW BOOK ON EVAN MORGAN  OF TREDEGAR HOUSE, NEWPORT

“ TREDEGAR HOUSE :WEEKEND PARTIES, FROLICS AND FUN”

EVAN MORGAN’S HOUSE GUESTS 1934-1938

FROM  NEWPORT HISTORIAN :  WILLIAM CROSS

·        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.

·                Synopsis : In the years 1934 - 1949 Evan Morgan Viscount Tredegar held court at his Welsh mansion, Tredegar House, an impressive 17th century red brick building set in 100 acres of parkland near Newport. Invitations to Evan's country house weekends were highly prized. But how many house guests passed through the gates of Tredegar House in the Evan years? Who actually stayed there and when? What of the legends of Evan's séances, outrageous parlour game of charades, riotous drinking and orgies to compare with Caligula's Rome? What is the truth, and what are the myths about these crazy weekends? In this book William Cross, author of previous Morgan books reveals the identity of the scores of people who were Evan's guests. Here are the good, bad and the downright disgraceful whom Evan brought together under one roof. The historical icons of the era, male prostitutes, spivs, spies, and traitors as well as a sizable collection of stage and literary figures, politicians, Catholic luminaries and Evan's relatives including his Royal cousins. Evan was a generous host, an excessive party giver, a man whose wealth in theory could support his foibles for pleasure seeking, for indulging in a complex homosexual life style, having footmen wear powdered wigs, and running a large zoo in the Estate grounds comprising wild and exotic birds and animals. But beneath the surface of fun, folly and farce it was a dynasty in decay, the Morgan coffers were crumbling fast under the burden of death duties, heavy taxation and the changing attitude in Society to service and employment on the landed estates. Evan was also a sick man crippled with poor health, moreover he ploughed a dangerous furrow especially during the war years and was subject to surveillance from on high.”

Highlights of the Book:

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.

Cross adds “ 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

Telephone: 01633 779731

FOR EDITORS

“Tredegar House : Weekend Parties, Frolics and Fun”

“Evan Morgan, Lord Tredegar's House Guests 1934-1938. “  Compiled by  William Cross. ISBN 9781905914531.   ( 2019)

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An illustrated  talk is also available about the book from William Cross. 

BOOK LAUNCH


NEWPORT U3A  Shaftsbury Church, Newport

7 November 2019

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UPDATED 21 December 2019