[Download ebook] The Exiled Collector: William Bankes And the Making of an English Country House
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| #3152610 in Books | John Murray Publishers | 2005-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.50 x6.25 x1.25l,1.41 | File Name: 0719563283 | 320 pages |
|||'A cracking and detailed tale' -- Antiques Trade Gazette 20040703 'A torrid tale' -- Tatler, Must Reads 20040801 'Anne Sebba tells us in The Exiled Collector a tale of Byron's friend William Bankes - esthete, member of Parliament, scion of a rich family - w
On August 30th 1841 William John Bankes, former Tory MP, pioneer Egyptologist and renowned traveller, was caught in compromising circumstances with a guardsman in London's Green Park. Bankes paid a heavy price for his 'moment of madness': less than two weeks later, well aware that sodomy carried the death penalty, he had fled in to exile, eventually settling in Venice. The British Government declared Bankes an outlaw, a vindictive and archaic procedure, which might have...
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