The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery
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* Calculated using average earnings as opposed to RPI.
* Diana’s sister.
* $67 million at today’s values.
* $128 million at today’s values.
* The £36,000 Henry owed his brothers and sisters under the terms of his father’s will.
* £612,000 at today’s values.
* Charlie Lindsay had died of cancer, aged sixty-three, the previous spring.
* Senior physicians appointed by the Lord Chancellor to examine wealthy Chancery patients in asyhms throughout England and Wales.
* Sir George Arthur, Private Secretary to Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, Secretary of State for War.
† Henry Cust, politician and editor, 1861–1917. His affair with Violet began soon after her marriage and continued into the early 1900s. He was the father of Diana, Violet’s youngest daughter.
* His elder brother, Charles Bunbury, later 11th Baronet.
† Francis Charles Needham, 4th Earl of Kilmorey, Captain, Life Guards.
‡ Great-grandson of the Marquis of Bute, killed in action, 1914.
* His elder brother, Hugo, Lord Elcho, killed in action at Gallipoli, 1915.
† Harold Tennant, Under-Secretary of War 1912–16.
* Aubrey Herbert, second son of the 4th Earl of Carnarvon.
† Percy Wyndham, grandson of the 1st Baron Leconfield.
‡ John Manners, eldest son of the 2nd Baron Manners.
§ George Edward Gascoyne-Cecil, son of Lord Edward, fourth son of the 3rd Marquis of Salisbury.
¶ Captain Hon. Rupert Keppel, third son of the 8th Earl of Albemarle.
* John and Charlie collected medieval tiles. Their collection included a number of whole pavements from Halesowen Abbey and Rievaulx.
* ‘Abandon all hope, ye who enter here’ – the supposed inscription at the entrance to Hell from Dante’s Divine Comedy.
* Edward Stuart Wortley, the commanding officer of the North Midlands.
* The First Battle of Ypres, 19 October–22 November 1914.
* The equivalent of almost $1 billion at today’s values.
* ADC to General Stuart Wortley.
* The name then for Foulkes’s Special Brigade.
* Commander, Royal Engineers.
* Rothesay Stuart Wortley, the general’s son.
† Tommy Bouche, Master of the Belvoir Hounds.
* 16 Arlington Street.
† Approximately £7 million at today’s values.
* The Revd Knox, private chaplain to the Duke.
* Guy Brooke, later 6th Earl of Warwick, ADC to Sir John French.
* The Marquis of Titchfield, heir to the Duke of Portland.
* Later Viscount Norwich.
* DeputyAssistant Quartermaster.
† John’s horse.
* Slang for a service-issue rifle.
† Eddie Grant, a fellow staff officer.
* The Duke’s eldest son.
* The Duke’s second son.
† Approximately £75 million at today’s values.
‡ Approximately £225,000 at today’s values.
§ Approximately £7.5 million at today’s values.
* Jacqueline de Portalès, granddaughter of the Comte de Portalis.
* Bridget Colebrooke, eldest daughter of first and last Baron Colebrooke, later married to Lord Victor Paget.
* Frances married Hon. Captain Guy Charteris, the second son of Hugo, 11th Earl of Wemyss, on 23 July 1912.
† Approximately £125,000 at today’s values.
* £625,000 at today’s values.
† £94,000 at today’s values.
* Includes the war dead from the nearby hamlets of Easthorpe and Normanton
* Approximately £34,500,000 at today’s values.