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Authors: Michael Holroyd

John, Mary (‘Pumpy’) (
née
Vanderpump) (AJ’s daughter-in-law)
540

John, Poppet
see
Pol, Poppet

John, Pyramus (AJ’s and Dorelia’s first son): conception
174
; birth
182–3
; weakly
188
; in France with family
192–3
,
195
,
197
,
224
; ‘Wordsworthian’
216
; at Equihen
241
,
242
,
251
; with Dorelia in Paris
270
; death and cremation
389–90
; mentioned
274
,
315
,
358

John, Robin (AJ’s and Ida’s third son): birth
166
,
174
; ‘most beautiful’
167
; relationship with AJ
195
; climbs and jumps a lot
197
,
216
; Mrs Nettleship carries off to London
238
, takes to Equihen
247
, carries back to London
252
; remains with AJ and Dorelia
273
,
274
; ill with scarlet fever
305
; his silences madden AJ
535
; AJ’s portrait bought for Tate Gallery
426
; has Hope-Johnstone as philosopher and guide
451
; to school in France
536
; studies in Granada
483
; subsequent career
539
; relationship with AJ
538
,
539
; author catches up with
xx
; mentioned
256

Augustus John to
575
,
583

John, Romilly (AJ’s and Dorelia’s second son): birth not registered
xvii
,
215
; with Dorelia in Paris
224
; at Equihen
241
,
251–2
; eats lilies
263
; with Dorelia in France
270
,
315
; at Alderney
366
,
368–9
,
541
; describes AJ
533
fn
,
535–6
; Hope-Johnstone as tutor
383
,
384
fn
; schooling
385
and fn,
387
,
536
; on AJ’s Buick
447–8
,
450
; subsequent career and publication of
The Seventh Child
538
; sees AJ and Dorelia off to Spain
588–9
; with Dorelia at Fryern
xv
,
xvi–xvii
,
601
; and Dorelia’s death
xxiii
,
601–2
; mentioned
220
,
274
; helps the author in research
xxiii
; and the John family papers
xxiv
,
xxv
,
xxvi
,
xxxi

John, Sara (AJ’s granddaughter)
xx

John, Simon (AJ’s daughter-in-law)
460
,
594–5
,
598

John, Thornton (AJ’s brother): as boy
4
,
14
,
15
; schooling
19
,
20
; and father
11
,
12
,
23
,
24
,
25
; as adolescent
28
,
59
; a hobbledehoy
40
; in Canada and Montana
14
fn
,
15
fn
,
25
; Winifred’s relationship with
161
; returns to England
404–5
; in Newfoundland
438
; on AJ’s receiving Freedom of Borough of Tenby
594
; mentioned
xxx
,
23
,
28
,
126
,
136
,
381
,
554
,
570

John, Vivien (AJ’s and Dorelia’s daughter)
see
White, Vivien

John, William (grandfather)
11

John, William (AJ’s grandfather)
6
,
7–8
,
9
,
11
,
12

John, William (AJ’s great-grandfather)
7

John, Winifred (AJ’s sister)
see
Shute, Winifred

‘John Beauty Chorus’
422–3
,
610–12

Johnson, Samuel: on himself xi; on Savage
xxxii

Johnstone, Alick
682
(n. 74)

Johnstone, Gwyneth
413
,
414
,
415
,
581

Jones, David
xix–xx
,
523
,
600

Jones, Edwina Claudia
(née
Lewis)
534

Jones, Robert Ivor
534

Jones-Lloyd, Alice
24

Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, The
283
,
452–3
,
561
,
566

Joyce, James
xxv
,
303
; AJ’s drawings
511–12

Kandinsky, Vassily
330

Kaufman, François
491

Kee, Cynthia and Robert
581
,
582

Keene, Mary: AJ to
533
,
563

Kelly, Sir Gerald
469
and fn,
585–6

Kennedy, George
478

Kennerley, Mitchell
492
; AJ to
479
,
483
,
486

Keynes, Geoffrey
101

Keynes, John Maynard
248–9
,
286

Kipling, Rudyard:
Jungle Books
61

Kirk, Eve
500

Knapp, E. X.: clerihew on AJ and Orpen
52
fn

Knewstub, Alice
see
Rothenstein, Alice

Knewstub, Grace
see
Orpen, Grace

Knewstub, Jack (‘Curly’): artist
manqué
138
; AJ shines like a star for
138–9
; as secretary of the Chelsea Art School
139
; opens Chenil Gallery
200
; leases AJ a studio
222
; muddled business methods
239
; ‘improving’
356
; baffled by Mrs Strindberg’s cheques
375
; shot at by Orpen
394
; dreams for the New Chenil Gallery
477–8
; bankruptcy and abandonment by AJ
479
; friendship with AJ ceases
480
; retires to Hastings
480–1
; mentioned
397

Augustus John to
478

Knight (musician)
63

Knight, Harold
400

Knight, Laura
400
; AJ to
477

Konody, P. G.
430
,
435

Kramer, Jacob
343

Krohn, Pietro Köbke
386

Kropotkin, Peter
38
:
Memoirs of a Revolutionist
101

La Maracona (flamenco artist)
281

Lamb, Euphemia (
née
Nina Forrest): artist’s model and ‘great romancer’
205
; marries Henry Lamb
205
; models for AJ
248
; eccentricities and sexual life
248–9
; arrives in Equihen
250
; ‘an irresistible boy’
250
; further adventures
250
; Lamb grateful for experience
250–1
; affair with J. D. Innes
352
,
353
,
354
; executes fantastic belly dance
358
; with AJ and Quinn
378
; makes ‘effréné love’ to Strachey
398
; affair with Francis Macnamara
412–13
,
528
; at the Crabtree Club
418
; divorces Lamb
503
; mentioned
258
,
262
,
357
,
359
,
521

Lamb, Henry: arrives at Chelsea Art School
205
; greatly influenced by AJ
205–6
; at Ida’s cremation
234
; follows AJ to Paris
248
; draws closer to Dorelia
248
,
249
; suggests ‘discreet form of colony’
248
; finds Euphemia unique experience
249
,
250–1
; affair with Dorelia
251
,
255
,
256
,
270
; replaces AJ with Ottoline Morrell’s
268–9
; criticizes AJ for endangering Dorelia
314
; Helen Maitland in love with
316
; suggests
ménage-à-six
320
; with Helen at Dorelia’s bedside
325
; criticisms of his work
330
,
345
; on AJ
356
; with Dorelia in Paris
358
, and Peppard
359
; in despair at her move to Alderney
360
; takes her sister to France
360–1
; as Dorelia’s useful card
372
; duets with Dorelia
372
,
381
; serves as army doctor in France
416–17
; Dorelia nurses back to health
451
,
502
; sets up house in Poole
502
; tries to escape with Dorelia
502–3
; hopes extinguished by move to Fryern
503
; divorce and remarriage
503
; sceptical at AJ’s threatened breakdown
505
; case ‘more serious’ than AJ’s
507
; misinterprets Gwen John
553
; mentioned
xxxii
,
203
,
233
,
239
,
257
,
265
,
357
,
407
,
436
,
504

Augustus John to
206
,
242
,
247
,
252
,
256
,
257
,
258
,
259
,
260
,
274
,
277
,
565

Helen Maitland to
316
,
325

Lamb, Nina
see
Lamb, Euphemia

Lamb, Lady Pansy (
née
Pakenham)
503

Lamb, Walter
248

Lambert, Constance:
Pomona
519

Lambourn, George
510
,
511

Lamorna Cove, Cornwall
400

Lancaster, Osbert
600

Lane, Sir Hugh: commissions AJ to decorate Lindsay House
294
,
304–5
,
319
; frightened out of wits by gypsies
305
; AJ continues pictures at Chenil Gallery
356
,
396–7
; admires AJ’s Meyer portrait
655
(n. 108); drowned in the
Lusitania
397
; mentioned
145
,
326
,
339
,
394–5

Lang, Cosmo Gordon, Archbishop
204

Langdale, Cecily:
Gwen John
xxvi

Larkin, Philip: on the value of manuscripts
xxix

La Thanghe, H. H.
92

Laugharne, Wales
531–2

Laver, James
xiii
,
533

Lawrence, D. H.
262
,
429
,
431
,
445

Lawrence, T. E.: friendship with AJ begins
440
,
454
; sees Casati as ‘vampire’
455
; suggests AJ paint Hardy
464
; on AJ
402
,
462
,
508
; tactful about AJ’s Tallulah Bankhead portrait
470
; and AJ’s non-election to RA
476
; mentioned
xxv
,
465
,
495
,
566
,
589

Augustus John to
468
,
509
,
511

Leach, Bernard
600
; on Henry Lamb
205
,
206

Leach, John
24

Le Bas, Edward
521

Lee, Cliff
600

Lees, Derwent
343
,
353
,
355
,
394
,
395

Legge, Daisy
83

Legros, Alphonse
34
,
35
,
49
,
93

Lehmann, John
570

Leicester Galleries
332
,
557
,
558

Leighton, Sir Frederic
93

‘Leonard’, Dorelia’s affair with
xx-xxxxi
,
149–59
,
160
,
224

Le Puy-en-Velay, France
85–6
,
87–8
,
115

Les Baux, France
308–9

Leslie, Seymour
460
; Eve Fleming to
461

Le Ventoux, Provence
308

Leverhulme, Sir William Lever, 1st Viscount: the beheading of his portrait
467–9
,
469
fn

Leverhulme Art Gallery, Port Sunlight
469

Levy, Mervyn
532

Lewis, Percy Wyndham: descriptions of AJ
44
,
45–6
,
57
; spreads rumours about AJ
114
,
115
; long and precarious friendship with AJ
119
,
121–3
,
145
,
518
; cannot paint near AJ
202
; in Paris with AJ
198
,
202
; ‘matrimonial projects’
202–3
; a ‘won-derful’ man
210
; with AJ at Ste-Honorine-des-Perthes
215
,
217
,
218
; AJ’s portrait
208
,
218
; on AJ
220
; at rue Dareau
224
,
229
; on effect of Ida’s death on AJ
234
; conferred with title Rai
284
fn
; to AJ on being volcanic
304
,
305
; and Fry
329
; pursued by Mrs Strindberg
375
; Dorelia slams ‘inner door’ in his face
381
; draws Hope-Johnstone
383
fn
; on Shaw’s beard
411
; as leader of Vorticists
417
,
426
,
427
; with AJ in wartime France
432–3
,
454
; T. S. Eliot portrait rejected by the RA
476–7
; criticisms of AJ’s work
xxxii
,
516–17
,
533
,
557
,
568
,
569
; continues jousting with AJ
590–1
; blindness and death
591
; mentioned
xxv
,
136
,
171
,
239
,
270
,
319
,
342
,
359
,
407
,
545
,
572

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