Queer Places:
Uppingham School, High St W, Uppingham, Oakham LE15, UK
University Of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2, UK
40 Clarges St, Mayfair, London W1J, UK
49 Nevern Square, Kensington, London SW5 9PF, UK
33 Curzon St, Mayfair, London W1J 7TR, UK
102 Queen's Gate, Kensington, London SW7 5AG, UK
44 Sloane St, Knightsbridge, London SW1X 9LU, UK
48 Jermyn St, St. James's, London SW1Y 6LX, UK
19 Old Square, Holborn, London WC2A, UK
28 Pall Mall, St. James's, London SW1Y 5EW, UK
78 Brook St, Mayfair, London W1K 5EF, UK
49a Pall Mall, St. James's, London SW1Y 5JG, UK
Campo Verano, Piazzale del Verano, 1, 00185 Roma RM, Italia
Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank (17 January 1886 – 21 May 1926) was an
innovative English novelist. His eight short novels, partly inspired by the
London aesthetes of the 1890s, especially Oscar Wilde, consist largely of
dialogue, with references to religion, social-climbing, and sexuality. He is
portrayed as Lambert Orme in Harold
Nicolson's Some People (1927). It is believed that Cardinal Pirelli in The
Princess Zoubaroff is a composite of Firbank himself and Oscar Wilde.
Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank was born on 17 January 1886, in Clarges Street, Westminster, the son of a Member of Parliament, Sir Thomas Firbank, and Lady Firbank, nee Harriet Jane Garrett. He had an older brother, Joseph Sydney (born 1884), a younger brother, Hubert Somerset (born 1887), and a sister, Heather (born 1888).[1] At the age of ten Firbank went briefly to Uppingham School (September 1900 to April 1901)[2] and then on to Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1907. In 1909 he left Cambridge without taking a degree.
Living off his inheritance, he travelled around Spain, Italy, the Middle East, and North Africa. Openly gay[3] and chronically shy, he was an enthusiastic consumer of alcohol and cannabis. He died of lung disease in Rome, aged 40, and is buried in the Campo Verano cemetery.[4]
Bertram Park (British, 1883-1972)
Ronald Firbank (detail)
1917
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