Joan

by Simon Fenwick

  Day-Lewis, Cecil ref1

  Delmer, Isabel see Rawsthorne, Isabel (Nicholas)

  Delmer, Sefton ‘Tom’ ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Delpierre, Mlle ref1

  Derain, André ref1

  Devonshire, Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke ref1, ref2

  Devonshire, Deborah Mitford ‘Debo’, Duchess

  comment on Joan, Penelope and Ballynatray ref1

  comment on Daphne Fielding ref1

  correspondence with Paddy ref1

  visits Kardamyli ref1, ref2

  friendship with Paddy ref1

  Dietrich, Marlene ref1

  Disabled Men’s Handicrafts ref1

  Dobell, Sydney ref1 and note

  Douglas, Lord Alfred ‘Bosie’ ref1, ref2 and note

  Douglas, Norman, Fountains in the Sand ref1

  Douglas-Home, Alec (Alec Dunglass) ref1

  Driberg, Ena ref1

  Driberg, Jack ref1

  Driberg, Thomas Edward Neal ‘Tom’ ref1, ref2

  comment on Joan’s father ref1

  friendship with Joan ref1, ref2, ref3

  writes ‘William Hickey’ column ref1, ref2, ref3

  friendship with John Rayner ref1

  has ‘glorious’ row with Frank Buchman ref1

  at Oxford ref1

  sails for New York ref1

  at Tickerage ref1, ref2

  moves to Bradwell Lodge ref1

  correspondence with Joan ref1, ref2

  sprains his ankle in the blackout ref1

  coolness towards Isabel Delmer ref1

  visits Kardamyli ref1

  created a life peer ref1

  death and obituary ref1

  outed as a homosexual in The Times ref1

  leaves gifts to twelve friends in his will ref1

  Dumbleton (village) ref1, ref2

  Dumbleton Dixies ref1

  Dumbleton Hall ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21

  Dumbleton Hall (steam train) ref1

  Dumbleton Women’s Institute ref1

  Dunbabin, Tom ref1

  Dunn, Anne ref1, ref2

  Durrell, Lawrence ref1

  lives with his lover on Rhodes ref1

  visited by Paddy and Joan ref1, ref2

  correspondence with Joan and Paddy ref1, ref2, ref3

  nicknames England ‘Pudding Island’ ref1

  enthusiast for teaching of Georg Groddek ref1

  E

  EAM see Communist National Liberation Front

  Economic Cooperation Administration ref1, ref2

  Edward, Prince of Wales ref1, ref2

  Egypt ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  ELAS see National Popular Liberation Front

  Endore, Guy, The Werewolf of Paris ref1

  Epstein, Jacob ref1

  Erskine, Hamish ref1, ref2

  Eton College ref1

  Evesham ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Evesham Hospital Carnival (1936) ref1

  Exeter College, Oxford ref1

  Eyres, Caroline ‘Carrie’ Sharp

  marriage to her second cousin Henry Kettlewell ref1

  pregnant and widowed ref1

  buys Charles’s collection of stuffed birds ref1

  installs east window at St Peter’s Church ref1

  oversees remodelling of Dumbleton Hall ref1

  encourages Grogan to marry her niece Gertrude Watt ref1

  shares Dumbleton Hall with relatives and friends ref1

  finances Grogan’s trek from the Cape to Cairo ref1, ref2

  volcanic mountain named after ref1

  Eyres family ref1

  Eyres, Henry William Kettlewell ref1

  education ref1

  changes his name to Eyres ref1

  marries his second cousin Caroline Sharp ref1

  death of ref1

  church window dedicated to ref1

  Eyres Monsell, Bolton Meredith

  character and description ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  early life at sea ref1

  marries Sybil Eyres ref1

  elected Conservative MP ref1, ref2

  life at Dumbleton ref1

  returns to active duty in First World War ref1

  accepts a knighthood ref1

  disappointed in his children ref1, ref2, ref3

  gives London dance for his daughters ref1

  appointed First Lord of the Admiralty ref1

  refuses to let Joan marry Pryce-Jones ref1

  raised to the peerage ref1

  signs Anglo-German Naval Agreement on Britain’s behalf ref1

  attends Berlin Olympic Games and meets Hitler ref1

  invites Ribbentrop to Dumbleton ref1

  life of luxury ref1

  absent from Dumbleton during the war ref1

  divorce and remarriage ref1

  as serial womanizer ref1

  death of ref1

  Eyres Monsell, Caroline Mary Sybil ref1

  birth of ref1

  character and description ref1

  marriage and divorce from Bolton Monsell ref1, ref2

  presented at court ref1

  life at Dumbleton ref1, ref2

  shipwrecked during First World War ref1

  awarded CBE for war work ref1

  gives London dance for her daughters ref1

  continues good works and launching of ships ref1

  sails for India and Australia ref1

  gives four Jersey cows to Diana as a wedding present ref1

  remains at Dumbleton during the war ref1

  relationship with Joan ref1

  death of ref1, ref2

  Eyres Monsell, Diana (sister) see Casey, Diana Eyres Monsell

  Eyres Monsell, Essex Drury ref1

  Eyres Monsell family ref1, ref2

  Eyres Monsell, Graham (brother) ref1

  birth of ref1

  childhood at Dumbleton and Belgrave Square ref1

  at Eton ref1

  character and description ref1, ref2, ref3

  homosexual life ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  relationship with his sister Joan ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5 and note, ref6, ref7, ref8

  army career ref1

  spends time in Switzerland with cousin Gino ref1

  enjoys student life at Oxford ref1

  goes on scientific and big-game shooting expedition ref1

  challenges Maurice Green to a duel ref1

  as disappointment to his father ref1, ref2, ref3

  studies music in Paris ref1, ref2

  correspondence with Pryce-Jones ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  nicknamed ‘Groundsel’ by Betjeman ref1

  has book dedicated to ref1

  stays with Somerset Maugham ref1

  photographs and paints portraits of ref1, ref2

  attends Mayo Clinic in Boston ref1, ref2

  war and post-war intelligence work ref1, ref2

  spends Christmas at Dumbleton ref1

  awards nominated for and given to ref1

  involved in repatriation of POWs ref1

  moves into the Mill House at Dumbleton ref1

  inherits his father’s title ref1

  acquires paintings by Robin Ironside ref1

  divides his time between Dumbleton and South Eaton Place in London ref1

  visits Bali and meets the queen ref1

  visits Kardamyli ref1

  dementia and death of ref1

  Eyres Monsell, Joan Elizabeth see Leigh Fermor, Joan Elizabeth

  Eyres Monsell, Patricia (sister) see Kenward, Patricia Eyres Monsell

  Eyres, Samuel (great-grandfather) ref1

  F

  Faringdon House ref1

  Farouk, King ref1

  Fedden, Renée ref1, ref2

  Fedden, Robin ref1, ref2, ref3

  Fielding, Agnes Magruder ‘Magouche’ ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4


  Fielding, Alexander Wallace ‘Xan’

  birth and family background ref1

  friendship with Joan and Paddy ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  wartime activities in Cyprus and Crete ref1

  lunches with Denise Menasce ref1

  in the Far East ref1, ref2, ref3

  character and description ref1

  joins Paddy and Joan on their travels ref1

  places personal ad in The Times ref1

  asks Bowra for advice ref1

  wishes to become a writer ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  correspondence with Durrell ref1

  drafts Paddy’s obituary ref1

  lives in Cornwall ref1

  marries Daphne Vivian, Marchioness of Bath ref1

  visits Kardamyli ref1, ref2

  leads a peripatetic life ref1

  divorces Daphne and marries Magouche ref1

  death of ref1

  Aeolus Displayed ref1, ref2

  Fielding, Daphne Vivian

  affairs and admirers ref1

  divorce and marriage to Xan ref1

  visits Kardamyli ref1, ref2

  leads a peripatetic life ref1

  Mercury Presides ref1

  First World War ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Fischer, Rudi ref1, ref2

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, Tender is the Night ref1

  Fleming, Ann Charteris

  gives supper party before leaving for Jamaica ref1

  correspondence with Paddy ref1, ref2

  relationship with Bowra ref1, ref2

  visits Kardamyli ref1

  Fleming, Ian ref1, ref2

  Fonteyn, Margot ref1, ref2

  Fort Portal, Uganda ref1

  Fould-Springer, Thérèse see Pryce-Jones, Thérèse Fould-Springer ‘Poppy’

  Franco, General Francisco ref1, ref2, ref3

  French, Sir John ref1

  Freud, Lucian ref1, ref2

  G

  Gadencourt ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Gaitskell, Hugh ref1, ref2

  Gallaher, O’Dowd ref1

  Garbo, Greta ref1

  Garnett, Bunny ref1

  Gathorne-Hardy, Ann ref1

  Gathorne-Hardy, Eddie

  friendship with Joan ref1, ref2, ref3

  outrageous life ref1, ref2

  character and description ref1

  as Miles Malpractice in Vile Bodies ref1

  visits Kardamyli ref1

  death and obituary ref1

  George, Oxford (bohemian cafe-cum-restaurant) ref1

  George VI ref1, ref2

  Ghika see Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, Nikos

  Giacometti, Alberto ref1, ref2, ref3

  Gloucestershire Echo ref1, ref2

  Gorky, Arshile ref1

  Grant, Duncan ref1, ref2

  Great Western Railway ref1

  Gree, Mlle Fanny ref1

  Greece ref1

  Green, Henry see Yorke, Henry

  Green, Maurice Spurgeon

  as editor of the Cherwell ref1 and note

  challenged to a duel ref1

  gains double-first at Oxford ref1

  Groddeck, Georg ref1 and note, ref2

  Grogan, Ewart

  adventures in southern Africa ref1

  falls for Gertrude Watt whilst visiting family in New Zealand ref1

  lives at Dumbleton with ‘Aunt Carrie’ ref1

  treks from Cape Town to Cairo ref1

  addresses Royal Geographical Society and meets the Queen ref1

  marries Gertrude and moves to Kenya ref1

  From the Cape to Cairo ref1

  Guérard, Michel ref1

  Guillemard, Francis ref1, ref2

  The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea: with notices of Formosa, Liu-kiu and the Malay Archipelago ref1

  Guinness, Bryan ref1

  Gula (shop assistant) ref1

  H

  Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, Antigone ‘Tiggy’ ref1, ref2

  Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, Barbara Warner ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, Nikos ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Hamish Hamilton Ltd ref1, ref2

  Hammamet, Tunisia ref1

  Harrod, Roy ref1, ref2, ref3

  Harrod, Wilhelmine Cresswell ‘Billa’

  character and description ref1

  family background ref1

  lifelong friendship with Joan ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  works in film studios ref1

  Betjeman proposes to ref1

  drives car with ‘Alan is a pansy’ scratched into paintwork ref1

  Joan’s photographs of ref1

  attends Labour meeting ref1

  as ardent Tory ref1

  marries Harrod ref1, ref2

  swings from the ceiling doing a striptease ref1

  accompanies Joan to a concert ref1

  correspondence with Bowra ref1

  visits Kardamyli ref1

  learns of Penelope Chetwode’s death ref1

  escorts Graham to hospital in London ref1

  as upholder of all things traditional ref1

  Harvard Business School ref1

  Haxton, Gerald ref1

  Heartsease (yacht) ref1

  Heber-Percy, Robert ref1

  Hellenic Review ref1

  Hellespont ref1

  Henderson, Nicholas ref1

  Hermitage House, Castleconnell (County Limerick) ref1

  Hermitage Museum, Leningrad ref1

  Hill, Anne ref1

  Hill, Heywood ref1

  Hitler, Adolf ref1, ref2, ref3

  HMS Britannia ref1

  Hoare, Lady Maude ref1

  Hoare, Sir Samuel ref1, ref2

  Hobson, Anthony ref1

  Hoesch, Leopold von ref1

  Holland, Henry ref1

  Hong Kong ref1

  Hopkinson, Lyndall ref1

  Hopkinson, Tom ref1

  Horizon magazine ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Howard, Brian ref1

  at Eton ref1

  photos of ref1

  character and description ref1

  friendship with Joan ref1, ref2

  outrageous life ref1

  as underachiever and wasted talent ref1

  as writer and critic ref1

  comment on Robert Byron ref1

  death of ref1

  Wheels ref1

  Howard, Edmund ‘Mondi’ ref1, ref2 and note

  Howard, Francis Philip Raphael, 2nd Baron ref1 and note

  Hugo, Jean ref1

  Hull, Richard, The Murder of My Aunt ref1

  Huston, Enrica ‘Ricki’ ref1

  Huston, John ref1, ref2

  Huxley, Aldous ref1

  Huysmans, Joris-Karl ref1, ref2

  Hydra ref1, ref2, ref3

  Hyndman, Tony ref1

  I

  Il Mondo Libero ref1

  Iles, Francis (pseud) (real name: Anthony Berkeley Cox)

  reviewer for Daily Telegraph ref1

  Malice Aforethought ref1

  Illustrated London News ref1

  India ref1

  Institute of Higher English Studies, Athens ref1, ref2

  International Surrealist Exhibition (Paris, 1938) ref1

  Ironside, Robin ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Ithaca ref1

  J

  Jackson, Derek ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5n, ref6

  Jackson, F. G. ref1

  The Lure of Unknown Lands ref1

  Jackson, Janetta Kee (née Woolley) see Parladé, Janetta Woolley

  Jackson, Pamela Mitford ref1

  Jaipur, Maharajah of ref1, ref2

  Japan ref1

  Jellicoe, George, 2nd Earl ref1

  Jellicoe, Philippa, Countess ref1

  Jenkins, Jennifer ref1

  Jenkins, Roy ref1

  John, Augustus ref1

  John Murray, publisher ref1, ref2

  Johnston, Kenneth ref1, ref2

  Jones, Pandora ref1

  K

  K
alamata ref1, ref2, ref3

  Kalamitsi ref1, ref2

  Kamchatka ref1

  Kantorowicz, Eka ref1

  Kardamyli house ref1, ref2, ref3

  building of ref1, ref2

  visitors to ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  library or big room at ref1, ref2

  bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchen ref1

  filled with cats ref1

  thousands of books at ref1, ref2

  studio at ref1

  offered to Joan’s nephew Robert ref1

  Kardamyli village ref1, ref2

  Katsimbalis, George ref1, ref2 and note, ref3

  Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire ref1

  Kee, Janetta see Parladé, Janetta Woolley

  Kee, Robert ref1, ref2n

  Kennet, Wayland ref1

  Kennington, Eric ref1

  Kenward, Ben ref1

  Kenward, Betty ref1, ref2n

  Kenward, Bridget ref1, ref2, ref3

  Kenward, James ref1, ref2

  Kenward, Patricia Eyres Monsell ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Kenward, Peter ref1, ref2

  Kenward, Robert ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Ker-Seymer, Barbara ref1

  Kesserling, Field Marshal Albert ref1

  Kettlewell, Anne Eyres ref1, ref2

  Kettlewell, Charles ref1

  character and description ref1

  comes into his inheritance ref1

  influenced by his guardian Captain Bowyer-Lane ref1

  marries and separates from Ernestine Stern ref1, ref2

  buys tea plantations in Ceylon ref1, ref2, ref3

  commissions a schooner ref1

  sets sail on two-year anthropological voyage ref1

  becomes governor of St Bartholomew’s Hospital ref1

  chaotic financial and legal affairs ref1

  known as ‘The Wicked Uncle’ ref1

  death of ref1

  Kettlewell Convalescent Home, Swanley (Kent) ref1

  Kettlewell, Ernestine Stern ref1, ref2

  Kettlewell family ref1

  Kettlewell, Henry see Eyres, Henry

  Kettlewell, Mabel ref1

  Kettlewell, Rev. Samuel ref1, ref2, ref3

  Killearn, Miles Lampson, 1st Baron ref1

  King Edward VII’s Hospital for Officers, London ref1

  Kinross, Angela Culme-Seymour ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Kinross, Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron

  claims Connolly first person he bedded ref1

  correspondence with Lees-Milne on Pryce-Jones ref1

  talent for knowing people ref1

  comment on Joan ref1

  best man at Pryce-Jones’s wedding ref1

  contributions to Architectural Review ref1

  correspondence and friendship with Joan ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  article on ‘Society’ ref1

  inherits his father’s title ref1

  marriage and friendship with Angela Culme-Seymour ref1, ref2, ref3

  at Bradwell Lodge ref1

  failure of marriage ref1

  joins the RAF Volunteer Reserve ref1, ref2

  stays with the Smarts at Gadencourt ref1