The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife and the Missing Corpse (38 page)

10. The Baker Street Bazaar, T. C. Druce’s profitable London department store.

11. Annie May, whom T. C. Druce married in 1851.

12. The Druce tomb in Highgate Cemetery.

13. Elizabeth Crickmer.

14. The Reverend William Stocking of Bury St Edmunds.

15. Mr Justice Barnes (Sir John Gorell Barnes), who presided over the probate hearing
Druce
v.
Young
in 1901, in a
Vanity Fair
caricature, 1893.

16. George Hollamby Druce in an Australian bushman’s outfit.

17. The cover of the 1907
Idler
brochure devoted to the Druce–Portland case.

18. The police magistrate Alfred Chichele Plowden: ‘the Law in Marylebone’.

19. Horace Edmund Avory – the ‘acid drop’ – in later life, as a judge of the King’s Bench.

20. William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland,
c
. 1900.

21–24. ‘The Druce Case: examination of important witnesses’: court sketches from the
Penny Illustrated Paper
, 30 November 1907. From the top: Edmund Kimber; Miss Robinson; Miss Maud O’Neill; Magistrate Plowden questions Mr Caldwell.

Key to abbreviations

•  Records from the Nottingham University Portland (London) archives are referred to as ‘NU’, followed by the catalogue reference number (starting ‘Pl’).

•  Records from the National Archives are referred to as ‘NA’, followed by the catalogue reference number.

•  Records from the London Metropolitan Archives are referred to as ‘LMA’, followed by the catalogue reference number.

SCENE ONE

p. 3
      
Description of the
6
th Duke’s arrival at Welbeck
. The description of the arrivals, of the people who took part and other details are taken from
Men, Women and Things: Memories of the Duke of Portland
K.G., G.C.V.O.
by the 6th Duke of Portland
,
London: Faber & Faber, 1937, in particular the account of their arrival by the 6th Duke’s half-sister, Lady Ottoline Morrell.

p. 3
      
Great Central Railway Company
. Previously the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, the company had changed its name in August 1879.

p. 3
    
  After about three hours
. In 1879, three non-stop trains per day slipped their last coach at Worksop, allowing a faster journey time from King’s Cross.

p. 4
    
  ‘The young duke! Did you see him?’
See the account of Lady Ottoline Morrell in
Men, Women and Things
, op. cit., p. 32.

p. 5
    
  The portrait of Bess.
After a 1592 portrait of Bess by Rowland Lockey, still in the Welbeck Collection.

p. 5
    
  One biographer says of her
. See Brian Masters,
The Dukes
, London: Pimlico, 2001, p. 138.

p. 7
    
  squirrel scampering through the frozen bracken.
The description of the approach to Welbeck Abbey and the landscape is taken from that given in the section on Welbeck Abbey in
Historic Houses of the United Kingdom; descriptive, historical pictorial
, London: Cassell & Company, 1892, chapter on Welbeck Abbey by C. Edwardes.