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[[File:Tuke - Frank Hird - a comission for Lord Ronald Gower - colored chalks (29 x 24 cm.), 1894.jpg|thumb|Frank Hird, painted by [[Henry Scott Tuke]] for Lord Ronald Gower]]'''Frank Hird''' (1873–1937)<ref name=findagrave>http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46622008 "Frank Hird", ''Find A Grave''</ref> was a journalist and later author of several books, including a biography of the explorer H M Stanley.<ref name=koymasky>http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/tuk/1891-1899/tuk10.html [[Koymasky]]</ref> He was the companion and lover, and later adopted son, of the sculptor and writer [[Lord Ronald Gower]].
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[[File:Tuke - Frank Hird - a comission for Lord Ronald Gower - colored chalks (29 x 24 cm.), 1894.jpg|thumb|Frank Hird, painted by [[Henry Scott Tuke]] for Lord Ronald Gower]]'''Frank Hird''' (1873–1937)<ref name=findagrave>http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46622008 "Frank Hird", ''Find A Grave''</ref> was a journalist and later author of several books, including a biography of the explorer H M Stanley.<ref name=koymasky>http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/tuk/1891-1899/tuk10.html Item under "Tuke and his boys" on the [[Koymasky]] website</ref> He was the companion and lover, and later adopted son, of the sculptor and writer [[Lord Ronald Gower]].
  
 
Lord Ronald met Frank Hird in 1893, when Hird, then secretary to the Parliamentary Counsel Lord Thring, was suffering from rheumatic fever. In 1898 Frank, by then working for the ''Morning Post'', accepted Lord Ronald's invitation to live with him as his adopted son,<ref>http://books.google.ca/books?id=7zWFx4zAhxAC&pg=RA1-PA1898&lpg=RA1-PA1898&dq=%22Frank+Hird%22+Ronald+Gower&source=bl&ots=cb943GM1GC&sig=4g7uqirXnTMqdt6tw9YoyRimeVw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YTtSU4SzHaiSyQGe-4CQBg&ved=0CHAQ6AEwDQ#v=onepage&q=%22Frank%20Hird%22%20Ronald%20Gower&f=false Raleigh Trevelyan, ''Princes under the Volcano: Two Hundred Years of a British Dynasty in Sicily'' New York : Faber and Faber, 2012</ref> and they stayed together until Lord Ronald's death in 1916.<ref name=koymasky />
 
Lord Ronald met Frank Hird in 1893, when Hird, then secretary to the Parliamentary Counsel Lord Thring, was suffering from rheumatic fever. In 1898 Frank, by then working for the ''Morning Post'', accepted Lord Ronald's invitation to live with him as his adopted son,<ref>http://books.google.ca/books?id=7zWFx4zAhxAC&pg=RA1-PA1898&lpg=RA1-PA1898&dq=%22Frank+Hird%22+Ronald+Gower&source=bl&ots=cb943GM1GC&sig=4g7uqirXnTMqdt6tw9YoyRimeVw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YTtSU4SzHaiSyQGe-4CQBg&ved=0CHAQ6AEwDQ#v=onepage&q=%22Frank%20Hird%22%20Ronald%20Gower&f=false Raleigh Trevelyan, ''Princes under the Volcano: Two Hundred Years of a British Dynasty in Sicily'' New York : Faber and Faber, 2012</ref> and they stayed together until Lord Ronald's death in 1916.<ref name=koymasky />

Revision as of 11:07, 19 April 2014

Frank Hird, painted by Henry Scott Tuke for Lord Ronald Gower
Frank Hird (1873–1937)[1] was a journalist and later author of several books, including a biography of the explorer H M Stanley.[2] He was the companion and lover, and later adopted son, of the sculptor and writer Lord Ronald Gower.

Lord Ronald met Frank Hird in 1893, when Hird, then secretary to the Parliamentary Counsel Lord Thring, was suffering from rheumatic fever. In 1898 Frank, by then working for the Morning Post, accepted Lord Ronald's invitation to live with him as his adopted son,[3] and they stayed together until Lord Ronald's death in 1916.[2]

Frank Hird shares Lord Ronald's grave in St Paul's Churchyard, Rusthall.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46622008 "Frank Hird", Find A Grave
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/tuk/1891-1899/tuk10.html Item under "Tuke and his boys" on the Koymasky website
  3. ↑ http://books.google.ca/books?id=7zWFx4zAhxAC&pg=RA1-PA1898&lpg=RA1-PA1898&dq=%22Frank+Hird%22+Ronald+Gower&source=bl&ots=cb943GM1GC&sig=4g7uqirXnTMqdt6tw9YoyRimeVw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YTtSU4SzHaiSyQGe-4CQBg&ved=0CHAQ6AEwDQ#v=onepage&q=%22Frank%20Hird%22%20Ronald%20Gower&f=false Raleigh Trevelyan, Princes under the Volcano: Two Hundred Years of a British Dynasty in Sicily New York : Faber and Faber, 2012
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