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Gwyneth Ericka Morgan was born in 1895, the second child of Courtenay Morgan and
Katharine Carnegie, later Lord and Lady Tredegar, of Tredegar Park, Monmouthshire. The family history on both her father and
mothers sides is filled with a variety of the rich, the famous and the notorious. The Morgans had their roots in South Wales.
The Carnegies in the Highlands of Scotland. Gwyneth spent a great deal of her life in London, or abroad, and in the Surrey
home maintained by her mother, near Dorking. She also spent time with her maternal grandparents, the Earl and Countess of
Southesk, at Kinnaird Castle, and with her brother Evan
Morgan ( 1893-1949) and her parents at sea on board the family yacht Liberty. She spent part of her childhood at Ruperra Castle,
South Wales.
Talented, attractive, an heiress to the Tredegar fortunes from land, coal and agriculture, she became a part of the rituals
of the great and good of London and Highland Society in the years before and after the First World War. Court, Northern Meeting,
Balls, the Shooting Season and health and gambling trips to Cannes, Paris and Italy. Gwyneth had an adventurous streak and
a reputation for being something of a bohemian. She was however struck down with ill-health after the excesses of high living
and overseas travel. She mixed with some East-End and West End types that her family disapproved of and they warned her about
the consequences. Coming into some perilous situations involving dangerous people, and with the increasing concerns of her
family and friends she spent her last years moving between rented accommodation as though on the run. Receiving medical care
from the most famous physician in the country, Sir John Atkins, Gwyneth suddenly disappeared in December 1924, her body was
later pulled out of the Thames in May 1925. She was aged 29.
Monty Dart and Will Cross - as Dartford Crossing - have spent several months researching Gwyneth and her story and piecing
together her life and times, for their own tribute in words and pictures. The story only begins in 1925.
You can share their knowledge of Gwyneth, her life, her death, learn of her family, friends and legacy in their forthcoming
book Through A Window Once I Saw You Dance.
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