A TALK THIS AFTERNOON AT OAKDALE CENTRE, BLACKWOOD, SOUTH WALES
ON THE HONOURABLE GWYNETH ERICKA MORGAN
Hon. Gwyneth Ericka Morgan ‘ A Beautiful Nuisance’
“..and all that’s best of dark and light meet in her aspect and her eyes” Byron
Hon. Gwyneth Ericka Morgan: 1895-1925 was one of the richest and as a debutante of 1914, one of the prettiest and alluring of girls. The daughter of Lord Courtenay and Lady Katharine Tredegar of Tredegar House, Newport, and, only sibling of the notorious Evan Morgan, the last Viscount Tredegar.
Gwyneth was wayward and unpredictable. She had an adventurous streak and a reputation for being something of a bohemian in the era of the ‘Bright Young Things’. After a chequered childhood, WW1 & difficult struggle in her 20s and after a period of foreign travel including recuperating from ill health Gwyneth suddenly walked out of a house in Wimbledon on 11 December 1924 where she lived with a housekeeper & maid. She left in a thick London fog with £70 in her pocket. She told no one where she was going. After being missing for five months a rotting corpse, was pulled from the River Thames on 25 May 1925. It was claimed as Gywneth’s. But was it? Who benefited by clearing up Gwyneth’s fate?
We'll never really know for sure what happened to Gwyneth Morgan. After spending 7 years investigating her disappearance her biographers Will Cross and Monty Dart reached various conclusions but never found finality & peace.
"One of the saddest things about Gwyneth's death" "was the turquoise amulet found on her body. It had been given to her by her brother Evan ( perhaps to ward off evil influences ) , it was held together by a piece of wire from a ginger beer bottle. It must have meant a lot to her."
Today, as we near the centenary of Gwyneth’s strange disappearance, Will Cross offers some new evidence he’s gathered behind the whole mystery with some unanswered questions and sinister overtones.
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