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'''George Frank Miles''' (1852-1891) was a handsome [[London]] artist who specialised in pastel portraits of society ladies. He was also an early lover of [[Oscar Wilde]]. He died in an asylum. |
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| birth_date = [[1852]] |
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In the 20th century Miles achieved brief notority as being an unlikely suspect for [[Jack the Ripper]]) theorists. The thin line of argument was that he lived on Tite Street near Melville MacNaghten; a cousin was an equerry to Prince Albert Victor (another unlikely suspect); and the brother of [[Montague Druitt]], yet another suspect, was in the same regiment that Miles had been in. |
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'''George Frank Miles''' (1852-1891) was a well-known painter in [[London]]. He would use streetwalkers as models for his paintings. |
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The artist had supposedly died before the [[Whitechapel]] Murders (see [[Jack the Ripper]]), but it was subsequently discovered that he died afterward, in an [[asylum]] in 1891. One theory on the identity of Jack the Ripper showed a link to Melville MacNaghten because Miles and his roommate, [[Oscar Wilde]], lived on Tite Street near MacNaghten. Additionally, Miles's cousin was an equiry to Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence. The brother of [[Montague Druitt]], another suspect, was in the same regiment that Miles had been in. The theory that Miles might have been Jack the Ripper had been produced by [[Thomas Toughill]], but it never seems to have caught on -- possibly because it was too weak. It resurfaced in the 1970s and was mentioned in Donald Rumbelow's original Complete [[Jack the Ripper]]. |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Neil McKenna, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde |
Neil McKenna, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde |
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Donald Rumbelow, The Complete Jack the Ripper |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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Revision as of 17:37, 23 April 2006
George Frank Miles (1852-1891) was a handsome London artist who specialised in pastel portraits of society ladies. He was also an early lover of Oscar Wilde. He died in an asylum.
In the 20th century Miles achieved brief notority as being an unlikely suspect for Jack the Ripper) theorists. The thin line of argument was that he lived on Tite Street near Melville MacNaghten; a cousin was an equerry to Prince Albert Victor (another unlikely suspect); and the brother of Montague Druitt, yet another suspect, was in the same regiment that Miles had been in.
References
Neil McKenna, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde
Donald Rumbelow, The Complete Jack the Ripper
See also
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