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TOM MITFORD BIOGRAPHY BY WILLIAM CROSS

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Tom Mitford in Drag At a party in 1929 "Quite fetching, what?" TOM MITFORD  : 1909-1945   SHORT TIME LINE 1904  :  Tom’s parents  Hon. David Bertram Ogilvy  Freeman-Mitford   and Sydney Bowles marry in London. 1904 :  Tom’s sister Nancy born  28 November. 1907 : Tom’s sister Pamela born 25 November. 1909 : Tom born 3 January at 1 Graham Street , London . 1909 : Tom baptised on 10 February as Thomas David Freeman-Mitford. 1910 : Tom’s sister Diana born 17 June. 1911 :  Tom at Undercliff Road , Boscombe, Bournemouth on the  Census Return. 1914  : War declared on 28 July. 1914 : Tom’s sister Unity born 8 August. 1914 :  Tom’s father David goes to war with the Northumberland Fusiliers. 1915 : Death of Tom’s uncle Hon. Clement  Freeman-Mitford heir to the Barony of Redesdale, eldest brother of David on 13 May. 1915 : Tom’s father David becomes heir to the Barony of Redesdale on 13 May. Tom bec...
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John Fothergill By Augustus John

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                                    John Rowland Fothergill by Augustus John  A wonderful drawing by Welsh artist Augustus John of John Rowland Fothergill 1876-1957. Lover of Oscar Wilde ( before Bosie Douglas). Classical Archaeologist , art lecturer, turned publican. Author of "An Innkeeper's Diary" and several other books including a famous cookery book. John Fothergill  was the mad cap proprietor of  “The Spreadeagle” in Thame, Oxfordshire between the wars. “The Spreadeagle”  became a haunt for the literary and artistic world, as well as for Oxford dons and well-connected undergraduates. Its patrons included writers such as George Bernard  Shaw, H. G. Wells, Evelyn Waugh, the Sitwells, and G. K. Chesterton, Evan Morgan, Viscount Tredegar,  and  artists such as Augustus John and Paul Nash, and actors and actresses galore. Fothergill was a savage wit and was one...
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