biography
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Brummell, George Bryan
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known as Beau Brummell
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1778–1840)
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| biography:
| Dandy, born in London, UK. At Eton, and during a brief sojourn at Oxford, he was less distinguished for studiousness than for the exquisiteness of his dress and manners; and after four years in the army, having come into a fortune, he entered on his true vocation as arbiter of elegancies. A close friend and protégé of the prince regent (the future George IV), they quarrelled in 1813, and gambling debts forced Brummell to flee to France (1816). He died in the lunatic asylum in Caen. |
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