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Tranby Croft is a large Grade II listed Victorian country house and estate at Anlaby, near Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The house is now the co-educational, independent day school, T
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Tranby Croft about 1920
Sir William Alexander Gordon Gordon-Cumming, 4th Baronet, was a Scottish landowner, soldier, socialite and a notorious womaniser. He was the central figure in the royal baccarat scandal of 1891. After
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…c. 1874 by Hull shipowner Arthur Wilson (1836–1909). In 1890 the house was the location of the royal baccarat scandal, which involved accusations that Sir William Gordon-Cumming, 4th Baronet, had cheated at illegal card games attended by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. The reputational damage was long-lasting. In Moonraker (1955) by Ian…
Gordon-Cumming in 1891
Gordon-Cumming as depicted by Carlo Pellegrini in Vanity Fair, 1880
Sir William Gordon Cumming in the dock
The future Edward VII in the witness box