Anthony Watson-Gandy

Anthony Blethyn Watson-Gandy (29 June 1919 – 27 June 1952) was a British scholar, translator and socialite, renowned as the last lover of Denham Fouts, bon vivant and companion to a veritable who's who of pre-1950 homosexuals (such as Viscount Tredegar and Crown Prince Paul of Greece). Watson-Gandy lived with Fouts in Rome until his untimely death from a drug overdose in 1948. Biography Scion of a gentry family, he was born in 1919, the youngest son of Major William Watson (1872–1947), MC- who assumed his wife's surname of Gandy at their marriage in 1906, becoming "Watson-Gandy"- and Annis Vere (1884–1960), daughter of James Milnes Gandy Gandy, who was born with the surname of Brandreth, but assumed, with his father, his mother's surname of Gandy. They divorced in 1932. After Westminster School, London from 1933, he then went up to King's College, Cambridge, before pursuing further studies at the Sorbonne in Paris. Appointed Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, he was also a Chevalier du Tastevin. Commissioned in the Royal Air Force, Watson-Gandy served as a Flying Officer during World War II.