A small committee of friends persuaded Lord Aviemore to sit for a presentation portrait, and the painter to whom they gave the commission was Philip Trent.
It was a task that fascinated him, for he had often seen and admired in public places the high, half bald skull, vulture nose, and grim mouth of the peer who was said to be deeper in theology than any other layman, and whose devotion to charitable work had brought him national honour.
It was only at the third sitting that Lord Aviemore’s sombre taciturnity was laid aside.
“…is the Aviemore story. I was with her at the time of her suicide. I am an executor of her will. In the strictest confidence, I should like to tell you that story as I know it.”
Edmund Clerihew Bentley, born 10 July 1875, died 30 March 1956; he who generally published under the names E. C. Bentley or E. Clerihew Bentley, was an English novelist and humorist, and inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics.
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