The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife and the Missing Corpse (44 page)

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A large number of newspaper reports, journal articles and pamphlets are also referred to in the book, identified individually in the Notes. Local information such as descriptions of buildings, roads and train timetables comes from contemporary guides and maps; weather conditions on specific days from the newspaper weather reports.

A NOTE ON MONEY

As the contemporary value of money is sometimes ­relevant to the story, in order to give the reader a rough idea of how much quoted sums were worth at the time, I have used the historic inflation calculator of Associated News­papers/‘This is Money’, which uses official UK inflation data to show how prices have changed, and what money used to be worth:
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-/­Historic-inflation-calculator-value-money-changed-.html

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Police photograph of the coffin of T. C. Druce: The National Archives

The extraordinary story of the Druce-Portland affair, one of the most notorious, tangled and bizarre legal cases of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras.

In 1897 an elderly widow, Anna Maria Druce, made a strange request of the London Ecclesiastical Court: it was for the exhumation of the grave of her late father-in-law, T.C. Druce.

Behind her application lay a sensational claim: that Druce had been none other than the eccentric and massively wealthy 5th Duke of Portland, and that the – now dead – Duke had faked the death of his alter ego. When opened, Anna Maria contended, Druce’s coffin would be found to be empty. And her children, therefore, were heirs to the Portland millions.