Books on the Morgans of Tredegar House, Newport

                                      Books on  the Morgan Family of Tredegar House

                                          From  Historians  Monty Dart  and William Cross

All  books feature the exploits of Evan, Lord Tredegar, the last Viscount Tredegar, a ruthless, predatory homosexual

A Beautiful Nuisance : The Life and Death of the Hon. Gwyneth Ericka Morgan.  By Monty Dart and William Cross. Book Midden Publishing ISBN 9781905914104  (2012). 

• Aspects of Evan : The Last Viscount Tredegar by Monty Dart and William Cross. [ Book Midden Publishing ] ISBN 9781905914159 ( 2012) 

• Not Behind Lace Curtains: The Hidden World Of Evan, Viscount Tredegar.  By William Cross. Book Midden Publishing ISBN9781905914210: ( 2013)

•    Evan Frederic Morgan, Viscount Tredegar : The Final Affairs, Financial and Carnal .  By William Cross. Book Midden Publishing  ISBN 9781905914241: (2014).

•    The Abergavenny Witch Hunt of 1942.  By William Cross.  Book  Midden Publishing         ISBN 978190514227  :( 2014).

•   Lois Sturt, Wild Child. A Glance at Hon. Lois Ina Sturt, Viscountess Tredegar. By William Cross.  Book Midden Publishing ISBN 978190514319: (2014). 

•  Evan, Lord Tredegar, Selected Letters, Prose and Quotations. The Mystic Muse of Evan Frederic Morgan. By William Cross. Book Midden Publishing ISBN 9781905914333 : (2015).  

•  The Engagement Diaries of The Hon. Lois Sturt. 1919-1924.  Part 1  By William Cross. Book Midden Publishing ISBN 9781905914340 : (2015).  

•  Evan, Lord Tredegar, Further  Letters and   Prose Pieces with Anecdotes about Evan. By William Cross.  Book Midden Publishing ISBN 9781905914388 : (2016).  

Available direct from William Cross, FSA Scot, 58 Sutton Road, Newport, NP19 7JF or on AMAZON

Enquiries  contact William Cross, FSA Scot 

Evan, Viscount Tredegar: Books

BOOKS ON  THE LETTERS AND PROSE OF EVAN MORGAN,

 VISCOUNT TREDEGAR

Evan’s Letters and Prose.  Two  compilations of the  letters and prose of the charismatic Welsh peer Evan Morgan, Viscount Tredegar,  have recently  been edited by Newport’s Will Cross who is also Evan’s biographer.

Evan, Lord Tredegar, Selected Letters, Prose and Quotations: The Mystic Muse of Evan Frederic Morgan ISBN 9781905914241 Book Midden Publishing (2015)

This book offers a  wonderful  selection of letters and prose including  Evan’s intimate correspondence to his beloved  friend  ‘Krylie’  ( Cyril Hartmann) culled from the Tredegar House Archive. In addition  are Evan’s letters to the composer Cecil Gray and to literary giants George Bernard Shaw and  G K Chesterton from the British Library Manuscripts Department, published for the first time in ninety years. The letters reveal a surprisingly whimsical, witty, whilst occasionally warped side to Evan thoughts, relationships and deeds.

In addition  the compilation combines a broad base of  prose articles by Evan contributed to  magazines and newspapers offering his own personal memoir of time spent  in Algiers ( 1918); Paris ( 1919); Rome ( for the visit to the Pope at the  Vatican of  King George V and Queen Mary in 1923); and his view of Limehouse as its prospective Member of Parliament in 1929.  Evan’s vision on Catholic matters  is confronted in a serious article, but there is a lighter note  with a lyrical piece about how the Victorians are remembered. The sizable collection of quotations about  Evan will amuse and provoke.

Evan, Lord Tredegar : Further Letters and Prose Pieces: With Anecdotes About Evan  978-1905914388 Book Midden Publishing ( 2016)

Among the letters included are those to the Welsh artist Augustus John, to The Archbishop of Cardiff, Francis Mostyn and to Marie Stopes who was involved with Evan and others in the campaign to try to secure a pension for Lord ' Bosie' Douglas. Other nuggets include two odd-ball letters featuring Evan from Aldous Huxley - his friend from the tragically insecure days spent at Lady Ottoline Morrell's Garsington Manor during the Great War. Here too are the letters from Evan to Frances Stevenson, David Lloyd George's private secretary and mistress; Frances later dubbed Evan " a hopeless liar and thoroughly degenerate". The new prose pieces include Evan's essay on " Youth", his personal views of what men and women of the 1920s would have made the ideal Prime Minister's inner Cabinet, and a curiously vain piece about " This Age of Vulgarity" as well as an equally heady essay entitled " I Believe in the Roman Catholic Church".

These books  are rare,  limited numbers,   the results of  Will Cross’s ten years of research. The work  fills a gap as very little of Evan’s written words ( except his poems and verse) are  readily available  in the public domain.

Copies can be obtained direct from William Cross at 58, Sutton Road, Newport, NP19 7JF.  Cheques/ POs payable to “ William Cross”.   Cost is £7.00 per title plus £2.25 post and packing. If you buy both titles the postage is free. The books are also available on AMAZON.

FOUR OTHER BOOKS ON EVAN MORGAN, LORD TREDEGAR ARE AVAILABLE FROM WILLIAM CROSS, INCLUDING THE CONTROVERSIAL BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH " NOT BEHIND LACE CURTAINS" COPIES ARE STILL AVAILABLE ON AMAZON AND FROM 'CRAFTED' IN THE KINGSWAY CENTRE , NEWPORT

Evan, Viscount Tredegar: Service in MI14 in Second World War

Evan, Viscount Tredegar and the Truth about what he did in the Second World War.

In 1943 Evan Morgan, Lord Tredegar of Tredegar House, Newport, South Wales was a Captain ( acting Major ) in the Royal Signals Corps, attached to MI 14, a branch of the Intelligence Services based at Wing House, Piccadilly, in London’s West End. This section of the army dealt with the use of carrier pigeons by the military. Pigeons were used in past wars to carry important, coded messages. 

In World War 2 they were requisitioned for use in a number of ways by the British Army, the RAF and also the Resistance in Holland and the Low countries. The messages were carried in special coloured containers on the legs of the birds or pouches on their backs. Evan’s lowly job was largely a desk bound one, but it included liaison with the pigeon fanciers/ breeders in Southern England.

This task involved some travel to meet the men who had given up their precious birds, moreover Evan was expected to keep the breeders’ morale up, since the mortality of the average bird was high. Evan was a man who enjoyed being at the centre of attention and revelled in sounding off about his own importance. In the course of ‘acting big’ he was careless about giving secret information about the work of MI14 to several people who were not entitled to have it, this included a group of pigeon breeders in Ipswich ( when Evan was visiting there for a meeting). He was also negligent in what details he passed on to a fellow officer who was a member of the Royal Medical Corps. There were additional disclosures made by Evan to two girl guides – who were on a PR visit to Wing House – this information was about the meaning of some positions flagged up on an operations map hanging up in one of the rooms. Evan was overheard making the various careless remarks about his work, he was reported and charged with three offences under the Official Secrets Act. He was tried and sentenced and found guilty on two of the three charges and ‘severely reprimanded’.

 The full story is told in the book “ ASPECTS OF EVAN : THE LAST VISCOUNT TREDEGAR. ISBN 9781905914159. This book contains a complete transcript of the Court Martial and the sentence passed. This disgrace led to Evan eventually leaving the army giving a leg injury as the reason. In all Evan served in the army in the Second World War for a few months, he was appointed to MI 14 in November 1942 and was Court martialled in April 1943. Despite the official records – and published sources based on the War Office files in National Archives and these files being completely accessible and available in the public domain there are still LIES and NONSENSE told about Evan in this period albeit a humiliating episode in Evan’s army career. Enough is enough! The lies told are reprehensible and unacceptable. They have been fuelled from time to time by newspaper articles such as in the news archives of Wales On Line and books about the second world war. 

 This doctoring of history – and leaving damaged history uncorrected is a bad reflection on the integrity of a Welsh publication produced by a major news organisation that wishes to be taken seriously about recording true facts and ensuring accuracy on its telling of Welsh and British history. Despite having pointed matters out regarding the inaccuracies ( that have now been published at least twice in the last two years ) the Editor of Wales on Line, has not had the good grace ( to date) to acknowledge a letter sent over a week ago. This is shameful, especially since they know they are culpable. Beware the surrogates of the history fraudsters who bathe Evan in a sort of romantic, heroic glory under the banner of what they call news and history and a good copy for what is deemed a better story than the truth. That cannot be right or acceptable history. Evan’s history warrants the unvarnished truth, readers of books, newspapers articles that feature Evan and visitors to Tredegar House should tell the truth too. Those who find the lies just a better story to tell in print or to relay to visitors at Tredegar House are equally shameless and dishonest. The National Trust -who are the present caretakers of Tredegar House should monitor for any rot and expunge any false stories and lies about Evan and the war. Any queries about this article please contact the Author William Cross, by e-mail. williecross@aol.com williecross@virginmedia.com

Mad, Bad and Dangerous Evan Morgan, Viscount Tredegar

The   Mad,   Bad,  and   Dangerous  Viscount  Tredegar

Evan  Morgan :  A   liar   and   a   degenerate

By William Cross, FSA Scot

Based on  accounts by the  contemporaries of Evan Frederic Morgan ( 1893-1949 ),  the last  Viscount Tredegar,  author  William Cross  reveals a  shocking   story of  a  dangerous, predatory  homosexual  with a  taste  for seducing  the native boys of  Bali and  North Africa.  An  early  example  of  sex  tourist,   Evan  twisted,  charmed  and  lied  his way around  the world  in  pursuit  of   avarice,   high- jinx,   self-gratification and  adventure .  

Morgan   was  openly   degenerate,  his  wealth, position  and  arrogance   combined  to  make   it  easy  for him  to  pick  up   'rough trade'  on  streets and  in  cafes  and  lure   his  young, often innocent  victims  into drugs, sexual shenanigans, black mass rituals and flagellation.  Even under Vatican control and surveillance  by  MI5  Evan Morgan escaped  any  scrutiny or restraint and carried on  regardless.

Many of the worst episodes of illegal  acts  were executed  on board  millionaires’ yachts, in  city  hotels  or  inside the  walls of deserted  churches  or  the  plush  homes  of   aficionados  in Britain and  abroad.   Evan had no shame.

Here,   uncensored  are  the details of Evan Morgan’s  wild excesses,   the taboos  breached  by  the devious  Welsh peer and pleasure seeker,  a man who  successfully hid behind the  shelter  of  powerful   friends and  Society  figures  who  stayed silent  since they feared for their own exposure  or  the loss of Evan’s generous patronage.  

A  book  for  adult  readers only.

Publication date  2020.

ISBN 10 1-905914-43-1  ISBN 13 978-1-905914-43-2

Published by William P. Cross, Book Midden Publishing 58 Sutton Road  Newport  Gwent  NP19 7JF   United Kingdom

Contact the Author for further details.

What was Evan’ Morgan's Army Unit, Rank and Role in the Second World War?

The entry on  Wikipedia  for Evan Frederic  Morgan, 4th Lord Tredegar, 2nd Viscount  has been  sabotaged. 

Attempts to correct the rogue history are reversed by the history vandals.

The present bogus wording includes this statement :

 “During World War II   he [ Evan]  was a high-ranking officer in MI8 ”.

Meaning  Military Intelligence, Section 8.  

This lie has been invented to give Evan more importance than he deserves.  MI 8 was where the  real spies  lurked and listened.

MI8 was a  part of  British Military  Intelligence group responsible for signals intelligence.  It originally  consisted of four  sections, by  the outbreak of the Second World War MI8 was responsible for the extensive War Office ‘Y Group’  and  briefly, for the Radio Security Service.  The famous Bletchley  Park  was a later  spin-off.

The  reference  to  Evan being a part of  MI8 is an example of  bad  history, this  bad history  can be found in at least two books where the authors have been duped by the same informants, history vandals.

What is the truth?   Well, Evan Morgan, Viscount Tredegar did briefly hold a position in one of the MI Units, this was in  MI14. 

Based  on  the evidence in   National  Archives  file  WO 71 / 1078   it can be gleaned  that at his Court Martial on 19 April, 1943 Evan Morgan is  described as “Temporary Major (War Substantive Captain) The Viscount Tredegar Royal Corps of Signals, attached Holding Battalion, Scots Guards”.

In his statement to the Judge Advocate General ahead of  his trial  Evan declared:

“ I am Officer in Charge  Special Section (Carrier Pigeon) Service and I work at Wing House, Piccadilly, W1.  I assumed these duties during the first week in November 1942.”    

From this it can be seen that Evan’s best chance of  making a leading contribution to the Second World War lasted barely six months.

The  pigeon  operations directed by Evan Morgan  at  MI 14  involved  liaison with  the civilians who bred the pigeons all over the country who were organised in groups.  The breeders were  under the general direction of  Evan’s  unit known as the Special Section, Carrier Pigeon, of the Royal Corps of Signals. 

Evan’s  main responsibility was to ensure that pigeons were bred and available for use by MI 14 including  operations abroad, the actual direction of the operations being the responsibility not of Evan  but of others in MI 14.

The Pigeon Service was a much larger organisation than the Special Section.  The Special Section was also concerned with pigeons that were dropped into occupied territory. Evan was working alongside those with a direct role of logging the incidences of how and where pigeons were dropped ( by means of parachute),  recording this  on a map on display at Wing House. 

Pigeons were dropped by the RAF  mainly in Holland and the Low Countries for possible use by local resistance groups for sending messages to be sent back to Britain. There are several brave exploits of  key information being brought to Britain by these  very brave little birds.

As to Evan Morgan, Viscount Tredegar,  one has to conclude that Evan had an important role in 1942/3 but a mediocre one,  he was  hardly a  “high ranking officer” and  was NOT  in  MI8.

All the  glory  was ended  after Evan was brought down by  Court Martial, found guilty   on two counts  and “severely reprimanded”  on  charges brought  under  the Official Secrets Act.

William Cross, Biographer of Evan, Viscount Tredegar

:William Cross, FSA Scot is the author of  six books on Evan Morgan including  “ Not Behind Lace Curtains: The Hidden World of Evan, Viscount Tredegar”  and co-author of  “ Aspects of Evan : The last Viscount Tredegar including the transcript of Evan’s Court Martial for offences against the Official Secrets Acts.”