Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
Adamson, Patrick Alan, 144–45
Adeane, Captain Michael Edward, 77
affiliation orders, 126–27, 128; blood tests, 235n114. See also breach of promise cases
Aitken, William Maxwell. See Beaverbrook, Lord
Aitken, William Traven, 52, 219n98
alcohol. See bottle parties; nightclubs
Aldington, Richard, 115
Allen, Trevor, 116–17
America: and anti-Americanism, 168; crime thrillers, 13, 153–54; culture, 52, 112, 231nn28–29; films, 13, 114, 123, 166, 167–68, 202
Amery, John, 194–96
anti-Semitism, 153, 173, 180, 182, 188–91, 195, 221n38, 245n82. See also racism
appeasement, 10, 175, 180–81, 203, 207
Arens, Egmont, 107
aristocracy, 135–36, 143–44, 157–58, 159, 162, 164, 165, 182. See also society
arms, trade in, 49, 120, 136, 140, 184–87, 188, 195
Armstrong-Jones, Robert, 98–99
Austin, Vice Admiral Francis Murray, 73, 223n30
Austin, Jill, 73–74, 82, 223n31
“Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War” (1936), 187
automobiles, 179, 205, 239n58, 254n52; and accidents, 146, 147, 148; and masculine consumerism, 112, 116, 146, 200; sexualized, 146–47; and speed, 126, 146, 147, 176, 192, 195, 199, 239n63; and women, 146, 246n8
Aylesbury Prison, 71
Balfour, Patrick, 162
bankruptcy, 41, 62, 71, 120, 128, 136, 142, 143, 151, 177, 185, 195, 247n48
Barclay-Harvey, Lieutenant Colonel Charles, 180
Barry, Toby, 58
Beaumont, Baroness (Mona Josephine Tempest Fitzalan-Howard), 79, 224n62
Beaumont, Richard Vyvyan Dudley, 141–42, 238n36
Beaverbrook, Lord (William Maxwell Aitken), 7, 16, 52, 144, 219n98
Bellenger, Etienne, 57, 66–67, 211n1 (chap.1), 211n7 (chap.1), 212n13, 222n64; robbery and assault of, 15–20, 25, 28, 29, 33, 34, 58, 59, 61, 64, 189, 211n8, 212n15, 213n19; trial testimony of, 56
Belloc, Hilaire, 188
Bennett, Reginald Thomas Philip, 35, 44, 127, 235n116
Benson, E. F., 165
Bernays, George, 90
Bevan, Aneurin, 165, 179, 254n53
Birkett, Norman, 39–40, 55, 56, 59–62, 131, 138, 140, 244n73
Bishop, Cecil, 31
Blacker-Douglas, Richard, 27, 77
Blackford, John D., 124
blackmail, 96, 97, 98, 120, 121, 153, 230n13, 233n62
black market, 49, 72, 74–75; “spiv,” 251n12. See also arms, trade in
Blake, Pamela, 39–40, 60, 150, 203, 216n21
Blakeney, General R. B. D., 180
Bland, Lucy, 2
Blustin, Esther, 50
Bonsack, Horst Robert Leopold, 35
Boothby, Robert, 192
Bose, Subhas, 178
bottle parties, 22, 27, 78, 149
Bower, Commander Robert Tatton, 189–90
Bowlby, John, 143
breach of promise cases, 128, 235n119, 235n122. See also affiliation orders
British Board of Film Censors. See censorship
Buchanan, Jack, 167
Burdett, Mr., 18
Burge, James, 123–24, 141–42, 234n95
Burley, Gabrielle, 137–39, 150, 237n30
Burt, Chief Inspector Leonard, 22–24, 25–26, 31–33, 34, 35, 36, 196, 213n5
Buskirk, June van, 238n53
Cadogan, Edward. See Report of the Departmental Committee on Corporal Punishment (1938)
Campbell, Richard Norman, 147
Canada, 50–51, 152, 153, 202, 219n87, 227n45
Cappel, Betty Patricia, 34, 35, 122, 123–24
Cappel, Louis Stewart Matheson, 34–35, 122, 123, 203, 215n55, 233n81
Carlisle, Mary, 125
Carpenter, Edward, 95
cars. See automobiles
Castlereagh, Lord (Robin Vane-Tempest-Stewart), 166
Castlerosse, Lord (Valentine Edward Charles Browne), 163
Catholics, 246n16, 247n36; and fascism, 182–83, 184, 188
Cazalet, Captain Victor, 186, 188
censorship, 13–14, 114, 166, 202, 236n133, 241n125
Central Criminal Court. See Old Bailey
Chamberlain, Neville, 184
Chamberlain, Detective Constable W., 34
Chardanoff, Souriat (née Chakoff), 41, 216n28
Chetwynd, Sir Victor, 145
Chetwynd-Stapylton, Helen, 77
Cherrill, Chief Inspector Frederick, 25, 36, 56, 215n47
Christie, Agatha, 146
Churchill, Lord (Peter Spencer), 178–79
Churchill, Randolph, 121, 250n95
Churchill, Sarah, 120–21
Churchill, Winston, 16, 50, 71, 120–21, 233n78
class. See aristocracy; corporal punishment, and class; “new poor”; society
Clifton, Michael (Richard Michael Allye Clifton), 79, 225n64
Clive, Stella (Stella Edith Howson-Clive), 69–70, 76–77
Cockburn, Gilbert A. W. G., 75–76, 79, 225n67
Cockburn, Gilbert Eric Graham, 225n67
Cole, G. D. H. and M. I. Cole, 159–60, 170, 187
Combe, Romain, 166
Connell, R. W., 3
Connolly, Cyril, vii, 115–16, 179–80, 187
Constad, Victor, 18
Coop, Geoffrey, 135, 137, 139, 148, 237n8
Cooper, Lady Diana, 43
co-respondents. See under divorce
corporal punishment: cat-o’-nine tails, administration of, 9, 87–89, 89, 226nn15–16; and class, 9, 85, 86, 95, 97, 207; Criminal Justice Act (1948), 91, 101, 102–3; debate about, 85–87, 90–105, 200, 225n4, 226n18, 227nn31–33, 228n74, 228n78, 229n99; press coverage of, 85, 87, 95, 96, 100, 101, 102; Report of the Departmental Committee on Corporal Punishment (1938), 85–86, 93, 98, 226n15, 227nn31–32, 227n45. See also prison reform
Coventry, Sir Reginald, 97–98
Coward, Noël, 113–14, 116, 133; “Children of the Ritz” (1932), 114, 206; Design for Living (1932), 113, 114; In Which We Serve, 202, 252n23; Private Lives (1930), 113; This Happy Breed, 113
Criminal Law Amendment Act (1912), 91, 92, 93
Cripps, Sir Stafford, 95, 198–99
Crowther, Bosley, 202
Cunard, Nancy, 187
Curtis-Bennett, Derek, 73, 124, 223n33
Daily Express, 7, 8, 52, 163, 219n98; coverage of flogging of Hyde Park Hotel robbers, 100–101; coverage of Hyde Park Hotel robbery trial, 11, 44
Daily Mail, 73, 79, 109, 146, 150, 163; coverage of flogging of Hyde Park Hotel robbers, 100–101; coverage of Hyde Park Hotel robbery trial, 22, 33, 66; crime coverage, 14; depiction of women, 73, 79, 109, 124, 128, 166; and fascism, 7, 8, 40, 160, 178, 192, 193,
Daily Mirror, crime coverage, 14, 192
Darling, Mr. Justice Charles, 91
Darrow, Clarence, 197
Dartmoor Prison, 75
Daubeny, Pauline, 137, 189, 203, 237nn17–18
Daubeny, Reginald, 237n17, 248n68
Davies, Jack, 21
Day, Mr. Justice John, 91
Dean, Basil, 78
debutantes, 39, 51, 79, 120, 140, 149, 163, 222n2. See also society
Deeping, Warwick, 198
divorce, 60, 78, 80, 236n133; King’s Proctor, 130, 131; law, 44, 51, 77, 128, 129–31, 236n135; Matrimonial Causes Act (1937), 80, 129; Report of Royal Commission on Divorce and Matrimonial Causes (1912), 129. See also affiliation orders
Dodson, Gerald, 150
Donegall, Marquess of (Edward Arthur Donald St George Hamilton Chichester), 163, 185, 186, 248nn51–52
Douglas, James, 170
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, vii, 151
Driberg, Tom. See Hickey, William
Dummett, R. E., 145
Eckhoff, Nils Lovold, 212n15
Ede, James Chuter, 103
Eden, Anthony, 186
Edward VII, 15
Edward VIII, 43, 60, 148, 225n1; character, 83, 230n11; and Wallis Simpson, 108, 130, 216n20, 230n12; womanizing, 108, 230n12
Edwards, Hugh Grayson, 142
Elizabeth II, 77
Everard, John, 116
Fabian, Inspector Robert Honey, 23, 24, 30, 32, 36, 59, 71, 72, 74, 78, 81, 238n33; writing and television work, 30, 31, 104–5, 213n17, 214n22, 228n74, 229nn96–97
fascism, 160, 175, 178, 180–81, 195–96, 197, 203, 207. See also appeasement; Kinnoull, Lord; Mosley, Oswald; Pitt-Rivers, George; Rothermere, Lord; Spanish Civil War; Waugh, Evelyn
femininity. See women
films, 4; American, 13, 114, 123, 147, 154, 166, 167–68, 197, 202, 250n4; British, 13–14, 110, 114, 153–54, 166–67, 197–98, 201–2, 230n18, 232n40, 244n54, 252nn20–21, 252n23; and censorship, 13–14, 114, 166, 202, 236n133, 241n125; depiction of playboys in, 8, 10, 84, 106, 114, 166–67, 201–2, 207, 236n148, 243n49; depiction of playgirls in, 123; and glamorization of jewel thieves, 153–55
fingerprints, 25, 36, 56, 215n47
Finland, plot to purchase guns and ammunition from, 136, 185–86
flapper, 9, 108, 132–33, 206. See also modern girl
flying, 146, 148, 176–77, 253nn46–48; National League of Airmen, 40, 148
Formby, George, 167
Foster, Eleanore, 49, 72, 125, 218nn69–70
Foucault, Michel, 91
Fox, Sir Gifford, 87
Frampton, Walter, 131
Franco, General Francisco, 49, 136, 184–85, 187, 188, 189
Friends of National Spain, 188
Furness, Thelma, 108
Galitzine, Prince Yurka, 188–89, 203, 237n18
Gamble, Patrick Henry Noel, 44, 78, 131, 224n53, 236n146
Gamble, the Very Rev. Henry Reginald, 78, 224n55
Gandhi, Mahatma, 16
Garland, David, 2
Garrotters Act of 1863, 91, 92
gender. See masculinity; women
general strike of 1926, 176, 178, 180
Germany, 40, 148, 178, 184, 189, 193
George V, 43
Gillis, Bernard B., 55, 56, 58–59, 62, 64, 127, 235n115
Goddard, Rayner (Lord Goddard), 229n93
Goddard, Theodore, 161
Goodwin, William, 135, 137, 138, 139
Gordon, Henrietta, 18, 20, 33, 117, 212n10, 212n13
Graham-Campbell, Sir Rollo, 142
Graham-Little, Ernest, 218n61
Graves, Robert, 117, 120, 121, 159, 160, 165, 201, 233n81
Greenaway, Fred, 45
Greene, Graham, 146–47, 171, 239n58, 241n110
Greenwood, Arthur, 165–66
Gregory, John Maundy, 60
Guinness, Bryan, 236n132
Guinness, Diana (née Mitford), 182, 192, 236n132
Hall, Adelaide, 150
Halsey, Gordon, 149
Hambro, Angus Valdemar, 17, 20–21
Hambro, C. J., 17
Hambro, Captain P. L. See Jenkins, Peter Martin
Hambro, Charles, 17
Hambro, Eric, 17
Hambros Bank, 17
Hamilton, David. See Wilmer, David
Hamilton, Patrick, 134, 237n1; Hangover Square, 192; Rope, 197, 250n3
Harley, Dennis, 80
Harley, Colonel Henry Kellett, 49–50, 218n75, 218n80
Harley, Peter, 218n80
Harley, Robert Paul, 11, 42, 110, 120, 164, 168, 169, 201; brushes with the law, 52–53; divorce, 51, 80, 128, 129, 130–31; employment, 51–52; family background and early life, 49–50, 159, 218n75, 218nn80–81; flogging, 76, 79–80, 86, 87, 101, 102, 104, 140, 200; incarceration of, 80–81, 86; investigation of, 23–36, 235n116; marriage, 51, 219n89, 219nn91–92; military service, 50–51, 52, 219n87; as police informant, 31; release, 80–81; remarriage, 81–82, 225n76; schooling, 50; sentencing of, 65–66, 79–80, 86, 87, 221n51; teddy bear coat, 18, 20, 30, 31, 33, 80, 118, 218n74; trial of, 55–65
Harmsworth, Alfred, 7. See also Daily Mail; Rothermere, Lord (Harold Harmsworth)
Harrison, Dick, 141
Harrison, Tom, 187
Harry, Clarence, 60
Haw Haw, Lord (William Joyce), 188, 213n5, 223n33
Hayward, Detective Inspector Henry, 19, 24, 30, 31–32
Heathfield, Detective Sergeant, 34
Hefner, Millie, 200
Hemmerde, Edward George, 97
Herbert, A. P., 130, 236n133, 236n135, 246n2
Hering, George, 135, 137, 138, 139
Hervey, Frederick, 4th Marquess of Bristol, 135
Hervey, Herbert Arthur Robert, 5th Marquess of Bristol, 35, 135, 137, 186
Hervey, Victor Frederick Cochrane (6th Marquess of Bristol, 1960), 139, 189, 237n9; bankruptcy, 41, 120, 136, 247n48; and driving, 148; family background and early life, 135–36; film company, 238n33; and flying, 148; gunrunning, 35, 40–41, 136, 139–40, 184–87, 247n48; incarceration of, 140; investigation of, 34, 35; sentencing of, 139; trial of, 135, 137–39
Hewart, Lord (Gordon Hewart), 39, 40, 55, 85, 88, 100, 130, 172
Hickey, William, 163
Hicks, Bert, 150
Hilton, James, 170
Hitler, Adolf, 100, 170, 181, 192, 193, 195, 228n63, 233n78
Hoare, Sir Samuel, 87, 90–91; Criminal Justice Bill (1938), 101; Criminal Justice Act (1948), 91
Hogarth, William, 157
Hoggart, Richard, 13
Holland, Margaret, 50
homosexuals, 92, 152, 165, 171, 243n33, 250n3; blackmail of, 233n62; and effeminacy, 112, 116, 117–18, 197; and fashion, 117–18; mother blaming, 116–17, 143; persecution of, 204, 253n42
Hornung, E. W., 151–52, 153, 240n103, 241n110
Horsbrugh-Porter, Sir John Scott, 43
Howard, Brian, 163, 182, 187, 243n38
Howard League for Penal Reform, 86, 90, 95
Hubble, Grace Burke, 1
Humphreys, Richard Travers, 63, 221n55
Humphreys, Travers Christmas, 55, 56, 60, 63, 221n43
Hyne, C. J. Cutliffe, 152–53
Imperial Fascist League. See Ridout, Philip John
James, Norah C., 133
Jameson, Storm, 191
Jefferies, William Peter, 20, 33
Jellicoe, Earl (John Rushworth Jellicoe), 43
Jenkins, Peter Martin (a.k.a. Captain P. L. Hambro), 15, 17, 42, 127, 164, 169, 217n56, 218n61, 224n44; early troubles with the law, 49; effeminacy of, 48, 218n64; exploitation of women, 49, 72–74, 82, 125, 218n70, 235n115; family background and early life, 47–48, 147, 159, 217n58; financial troubles, 48–49, 64; gunrunning, 49, 120, 136, 140, 184–87, 188, 195; homosexuality, 118; incarceration of, 72, 74, 76–77, 80, 224n41; investigation of, 19, 20, 22–36, 212n16; later troubles with the law, 71–76; Mayfair Boy (autobiography, 1952), 46–47, 111, 113, 115; military service, 202, 223n27, 235n110; release from prison, 72, 76, 81, 223nn26–27, 224n42; as robbery victim, 35, 49, 52; schooling, 47–48; sentencing of, 65–66; trial of, 55–65, 169, 215n47, 220n7, 221n47, 223n33; as witness, 126
Jenkins, Walter Martin, 47, 48, 218n60
Jenner-Fust, Lieutenant Richard, 43
Jerrold, Douglas, 188
Jesse, Fryniwyd Tennyson, 1–2, 65, 205, 209n2
jewel thief films, 153–55; women in, 154
Johnson, Amy, 239n74
Jones, Jack, 107
Jonson, Ben, 106
Joyce, William. See Haw Haw, Lord
Joynson-Hicks, Sir William, 39, 149, 180
Judges’ Rules, 26
jury, 55, 221n51, 226n18; judge’s addressing of, 64–65, 124, 138
Kearney, Peter James, 30, 214n24
Kelly, Reginald Sidney, 19, 20, 33, 117
Kennedy, Thomas, 86
Kinnoull, Lord (George Harley Hay-Drummond), 176–80, 246n17; warnings about fascism, 178, 179, 180
Kinnoull, Claude, Countess of (née Enid Hamlyn Fellows), 246n16
Kittermaster, Rev. D. B., 72
Kramer, A., 36
Larceny Act of 1916, 92
Laurenti, Enrico, 18, 19, 33, 56
Lawrence, D. H., 107
Leggi, Sylvia Doris, 126–27, 128, 150, 235n112, 235nn114–15
LeMahieu, Daniel, 8
Leopold, Nathan F., 197
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 10
Lévy, Élie, 41, 63, 216nn28–29, 221n42
Liddell, Guy, 70
life preserver, definition of, vii
Lincoln, Fredman Ashe, 55, 62, 63, 125–26, 221n38, 221n55, 248n48
Lloyd, Geoffrey, 86
Löbel, Sali, 119
Loeb, Richard, 197
Lonsdale, Arthur, 37
Lonsdale, Georgina Beatrice, 37–38
Lonsdale, John Christopher Mainwaring, 42, 161, 164, 169, 216n10, 222nn2–3; bankruptcy, 71; brushes with the law, 38, 41, 216n28, 221n42; divorce, 71; family background and early life, 37–38, 159; and flying, 40, 148; gunrunning, 27, 35, 40–41, 63, 110, 136, 184–87, 248n48; incarceration of, 68, 69–70, 80; investigation of, 22–36, 215n45; marriage, 70, 76–77; military service, 34, 38, 71, 202; release from prison, 68; remarriage, 71, 81; schooling, 38; sentencing of, 66; slander suit, 39–40, 60, 150, 203; trial of, 55–65, 221n55
Lonsdale, John Claude Jardine, 37–38, 215n9
Lonsdale, John Henry, 37
Lord Chamberlain’s Office. See censorship
lounge lizards, 115, 150, 231n34
Lucan, Lord (Richard John Bingham), 200
Lyle, Robin Alexander, 171, 203
Lyon-Clark, Anthony William Patrick, 45, 203
Macaulay, Rose, 183
MacLaren-Ross, Julian, 118
Macmillan, Norman, 40
Maidstone Prison, 80
Mallory, Patricia, 125, 235n108
Manchester Guardian, 7; and corporal punishment, 103, 228n78; and fascism, 180, 249n81
Marsden, Captain Arthur, 102–3
Marsh, Ngaio, 144
Marshall, Kenneth, 127
masculinity: British, 114, 204–5; and consumerism, 110–13, 116, 133, 146, 200, 231n29; and effeminacy, 9, 110–18, 133, 197, 241n110; and fashion, 9, 10, 48, 85, 112–13, 116, 117–18, 204, 231n31, 233n66; Nazi, 204; new models of, 7, 9, 84, 106, 109, 110, 132; norms of, 3–4, 109–110, 204, 206
Matrimonial Causes Act (1937), 80, 129
Mayfair: in films, 166–67, 244n54; and Monopoly, 164; reputation, 4–5, 114–15, 116, 163–66, 243n52, 251n9
McBride, Reginald William, 58
McClure, George Buchanan, 55–56, 58, 62, 63, 64, 72–73, 74, 103, 220n7
Men Only, 116
Merriman, Sir Boyd, 130–31
Metropolitan Police, 25; information provided by informants, 31, 34, 52, 122, 203, 215n55, 233n81; practice of using informants, 31, 213n18
Meyrick, Kate, 177, 195, 238n54, 246n15
Meyrick, Mary, 177
Mikes, George, 114
Mitchell, Paul (Thomas Shaw), 235n110; assault of Peter Martin Jenkins, 126; and fraud, 123–24, 151, 188; marriage, 125, 234n105; military service, 151, 235n110; playboy lifestyle, 145–46, 148–49, 150
Mitford, Nancy, 114
Mitford, Unity, 193
modern girl, 119–20. See also flapper
Moran, Patrick Stewart Greville, 121–22, 148, 203, 233n81
Morley, Robert, 50
Mosley, Oswald, 193, 198, 236n132, 249n81; and British Union of Fascists, 146, 175, 190–94; critics, 190, 191, 246n21; Member of Parliament, 190; playboy, 175, 190, 191, 194, 207; womanizer, 192
motorcars. See automobiles
Mountbatten, Lady Edwina, 60
Muggeridge, Malcolm, 201, 228n78, 251n10
Mussolini, Benito, 183, 190, 194, 195, 233n78
“new poor,” the, 10, 144, 160–61, 163, 174, 207
Newsam, Sir Frank, 196
News of the World, 7, 163, 169
newspapers. See Daily Express; Daily Herald; Daily Mail; Daily Mirror; Daily Sketch; Manchester Guardian; News of the World; Times, The
Nichols, Beverley, 125
Nicholson, Godfrey, 87
Nicholson, Nancy, 121
nightclubs, 44, 149–50, 164, 166, 199; the Bag o’ Nails, 150; the Florida, 26, 27, 29, 126, 149, 150, 240n92; the 43 Club, 188, 238n54; Jack’s Bar, 26, 29; lesbian, 118; the Nest Club, 137, 138, 150, 237n22; the 19th Club, 27, 29, 149; Smokey Joe’s, 124; the Spotted Dog, 30, 58, 121, 149, 150. See also bottle parties
novels, 107, 130, 164–65, 226n29, 240n103; blackguard literature, 152–53, 241n110; depiction of women in, 109, 133, 146; and masculinity, 3–4, 110, 115–16, 133, 134, 146–47, 207, 241n110; thrillers, 4, 10, 13, 153, 165. See also Fleming, Ian; Herbert, A. P.; Waugh, Evelyn
Old Bailey (Central Criminal Court), 54–55
old school tie. See public schools
Oliver, Vic (Victor Von Samek), 121, 233n78
Orpen, William, 107
Orwell, George (Eric Blair), vii, 13, 50, 81, 115–16, 153, 171, 187, 247n33
Paris, 41; theft, 60, 61, 62, 63
Parker, John, 95
paternity suits. See affiliation orders
Pelly, Elizabeth (née Ponsonby), 122–23, 148, 169
Pethwick-Lawrence, Frederick, 87
Phillimore, Captain Paul, 78, 224n60
Phillimore, Lord (Godfrey Walter Phillimore), 78, 188, 248n63
Phillimore, Pamela, 78–79
Pitt-Rivers, Augustus (Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers), 223n20
Pitt-Rivers, George (George Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers), 71, 223n19
Pocock, Roger, 152, 153, 241n110
Porter, Sir John, 23
Postgate, Raymond, 191
Powell, Ronald, 34
Priestley, J. B., 168
prison reform, 76, 90–91; Criminal Justice Act (1948), 91, 101, 102–3; Howard League for Penal Reform, 86, 90, 95. See also corporal punishment
Professional Classes Aid Council, 160
public schools, 6, 10, 47, 68, 109–10, 170–73, 205, 245n82; “old school tie,” 170, 171, 173
Pulteney, Lieutenant-General Sir William, 77
racism, 148, 150, 152–53, 172, 182–83, 240n103. See also anti-Semitism
Raffles (fictional character), 151–52, 153, 240n103, 241n110
Ramsey, Guy, 166
Rankin, Patrick, 121
Reed, Douglas, 173
remittance men, 142–43
Report of the Departmental Committee on Corporal Punishment (1938), 85–86, 93, 98, 226n15, 227nn31–32, 227n45. See also corporal punishment
Richards, Frank (Charles Hamilton), 170
Ridout, Philip John, 189
Right Club, 188–89, 203, 249n68
Ritz, The, 38, 149, 251n9; “Children of the Ritz,” 114, 206
Robinson, Sir Christopher, 95
Roche, Mazo de la, 107
Rolphe, Inspector Arthur, 22–23
Rook, Clarence, 164
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 107
Rothermere, Lord (Harold Harmsworth), 40, 144, 148, 178
Royse, Samuel, 147
Russell, Edward (Lord de Clifford), 146, 246n15
Salt, Henry, 95–96
Santini, Mario, 149
Sark, Dame of (Sibyl Mary Hathaway), 141, 238n36
Saunders, Elizabeth Mary, 122
Sayers, Dorothy L., 144
Shaw, George Bernard, vii, 90, 95, 96, 99, 227n49
Shinwell, Emanuel, 189–90
Silverman, Sydney, 180
Simpson, Ernest Aldrich, 60, 130, 216n20
Simpson, Wallis, 60, 108, 130, 131, 216n20, 230n12
Skeffington, John Clotworthy Talbot Foster Whyte-Melville (13th Viscount Massereene and 6th Viscount Ferrard), 126–28, 148, 150, 235n115, 235n121, 238n33
Slavik, Rudolph, 41
Smith, Cyril, 21–22
Smith, F. E., 192
Smith, Montague, 40
Smith, Sergeant Thomas H., 23
Smithson, George, 240n105
Sneddon, David John Beatson, 147, 148, 149, 203
society, 7, 10, 134, 149, 161–64, 166, 168, 207; season, 48, 79, 140, 163, 177. See also debutantes
Southby, Sir Archibald, 86, 96
Spanish Civil War, 143, 179, 184, 187–88, 189; International Brigades, 184; and scheme to sell arms, 49, 120, 136, 140, 184–87, 188, 195; Spanish Foreign Legion, 184
Spooner, Captain G. F., 43
Swaffer, Hannan, 194
Swift, Mr Justice Rigby, 129
Synge, J. M., 106
Tapsell, Detective Sergeant, 213n11
Taylor, A. J. P., 194
Taylor, F. O., 98
teddy bear coat, definition of, 212n10, 233n66
Telegraph, The, 163, 204; and corporal punishment, 95, 100
theater, 128, 154, 197–98, 227n49, 232n40, 250n3; the trial as, 2, 54–55
Thompson, E. P., 6
Thompson, Edith, 223n33, 243n28
Times, The, 6–7, 43–44, 48, 52, 68, 143, 230n6, 238n42, 245n92; and corporal punishment, 100, 102; film reviews, 153, 155, 202; marriage and birth announcements, 40, 79, 124; and the “new poor,” 161; trial coverage, 73, 158
Topham, John, 122
Topham, Patrick Wakelyn, 147, 148, 149, 203
Treason Act (1842), 91
trials: judge’s addressing of jury, 64–65, 124, 138; juries, 55, 221n51, 226n18; newspaper coverage of, 11, 22, 33, 44, 66, 73, 158; theatrical nature of trial audience, 2, 54–55. See also Harley, Robert Paul: trial of; Hervey, Victor Frederick Cochrane: trial of; Jenkins, Paul Martin: trial of; Lonsdale, John Christopher Mainwaring: trial of; Wilmer, David: trial of
Turing, Alan, 204
Turner, Anne Godwin, 125–26
Vagrancy Act: of 1824, 91; of 1898, 91
Vaughn, Greta, 33
Wakefield Prison, 76
Wallace, Edgar, 13
Walter, Michael A. V., 137–38, 139, 237n18, 237n30
Wandsworth Prison, 69
Ward, Diana (Diana Colgrave), 122
Ward, Freda Dudley, 108, 230n11
Ward, Irene, 128
Watts, Edward Russell, 214n22
Waugh, Alec, 171
Waugh, Evelyn, 16; Brideshead Revisited, 199, 243n38; “Careers for Our Sons” (1929), 144, 238n48; and Catholicism, 246n16; Decline and Fall (1928), 68, 182; and fascism, 181–84, 186–88, 247n33, 248n58; Vile Bodies (1930), 123, 182
Webb, Beatrice, 191
Welles, Orson, 113
Wellington College, 50
West, Rebecca, 157, 187, 196, 242n1
Western Brothers (Kenneth and George Western), 171–72
Wheeler, Tony (Charles Anthony), 121, 122, 215n55, 233n81
Wheler, Sir Trevor, 51, 219n90
White, Harold, 123
White, Hilary Inez Elizabeth. See Wilmer, Hilary Inez Elizabeth
Wightwick, Freda Margaret, 51, 80, 129
Wightwick, Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Milner, 51
Wightwick, John, 51
Wilby, Mr. (John Lonsdale business associate), 26, 27
Wilde, Sir Ernest, 96–97
Wilkinson, Ellen, 192
Wilmer, Brigadier-General Eric Randal Gordon, 23, 41–43, 66
Wilmer, David, 46, 110, 117, 158, 164, 169; brushes with the law, 44–46, 203; divorce, 44, 77, 122, 123, 128–29, 131–32, 224n51; exploitation of women, 120–21; family background and early life, 41–44, 159, 217n40, 217n47; flogging, 76, 87, 90, 100–101, 102–3, 104, 200; incarceration of, 76–77, 86; investigation of, 23–36, 214n23, 215n47, 217n36, 221n47, 235n116; marriage, 44; release from prison, 78; remarriage, 78, 79, 82; schooling, 43; sentencing of, 65–66, 86, 87; trial of, 55–65, 140; use of ex-wife’s lover as alibi, 44, 78
Wilmer, Frederick Clive, 43, 203, 217n39, 252n34
Wilmer, Hilary Inez Elizabeth (née White), 44, 77–78, 122, 123, 128–29, 131–32, 224n51, 235n126, 236n146
Windsor, Duke of. See Edward VIII
Wolseley, Evelyne, 40
women: and alcohol, 150, 230n18, 244n54; and automobiles, 146, 246n8; and consumerism, 110, 112, 116; and fashion, 108, 109, 112, 133; and film, 123, 154, 244n54; flogging of, 229n84; flogging to prevent assaults on, 99, 103; newspaper depictions of, 73, 79, 109, 124, 128, 166; and norms of femininity, 2, 3, 108–9, 110, 206; novels, depiction in, 109, 133, 165; playboy as a threat to, 118–20, 122, 131–32, 133; in trial jury, 55; and the vote, 108. See also affiliation orders; birth control; breach of promise cases; debutantes; divorce; flapper; gold diggers; Jenkins, Peter Martin: exploitation of women; Matrimonial Causes Act (1937); modern girl; Mosley, Oswald: womanizer; playgirls; Wilmer, David: exploitation of women
World War II, 71, 134, 165, 194, 195, 202, 204–5, 248n68, 251nn9–10; as “people’s war,” 10, 205
Wormwood Scrubs Prison, 140
Worsley, Edith Dorothy, 43
Worsley, Marjory, 42–43
Worsley, Major-General Richard, 42