The peculiar and interesting Horace “Hod” Dibben took over Esmeralda’s Barn inside a yr of Esmeralda Gullan’s tragic loss of life. Hod’s supposed ward, Patsy Morgan Dibben, was then put in control of the membership and the Barn then turned the centre of intelligence-led spy-games, gangland infiltration and an elite intercourse blackmail operation. Quickly Patsy Morgan-Dibben would go lacking, reportedly taken by the satan himself. Let’s check out the mad world of satanic super-spy Hod Dibben.
Patsy Morgan was a easy grocer’s daughter from Southampton, England. Nevertheless, a while between the age of twelve and sixteen-years-old, she turned the authorized ward of a really unusual and perverted particular person. The proof reveals that Patsy was groomed by a former-RAF squadron chief who later claimed to have additionally been a excessive degree Satanist inside a “black magic circle” based mostly within the UK. She soon-after modified her title to Patsy Morgan-Dibben as soon as she had turn into her authorized guardian. This official “guardian” was a wierd vintage seller named Horace “Hod” Dibben, who ultimately created The Black Sheep night time membership in London. The Black Sheep would subsequently turn into a infamous hang-out for a number of the most well-known individuals to inhabit the British capital’s night time membership scene.
Hod Dibben took management of Esmeralda’s Barn lower than a yr after Esmeralda Gullan’s premature loss of life by gassing. He then ensured that his ward Patsy Morgan-Dibben turned the Barn’s subsequent “hostess with the mostest.” But, like Esmeralda, Patsy would quickly be out of the image, and her destiny remains to be unclear to this very day.
A Transient Introduction to Horace “Hod” Dibben
Horace Ronald Dibben was born on 15 Might 1905 and was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dibben of Heather Hill in Chillworth. Horace married his first spouse, Phyllis D. Stent on the age of 23 years-old in a church ceremony in Havant. The Dibben household have been a part of the Plymouth Brethren and have been prosperous sufficient for the wedding to be reported within the 30 June 1928 version of the Hampshire Advertiser, with the newspaper that includes a grainy image of the fortunately married couple. The Hampshire Telegraph additionally reported on the marriage of Horace and Phyllis, stating that there have been over 250 visitors assembled for the marriage breakfast and the publication additionally famous a listing of the presents given to the bride and groom. Harry Dibben gave his son and daughter-in-law a home and a cheque, whereas the opposite family members gave such presents as a Singer stitching machine and candle stands. Horace himself ultimately turned referred to as an vintage seller, amongst different issues, and—in 1928—he and his blushing bride have been seemingly setup for all times. However a easy life was not one thing Hod Dibben had ever wished, as an alternative he aimed for a way more thrilling existence. The subsequent point out of Hod Dibben within the UK press got here a number of years later, in July 1934, when his home in Wentworth, Southampton, was damaged into and objects valued at round £200 have been stolen.
It was after the struggle when Horace Dibben’s profile started to rise considerably. In actual fact, Hod Dibben acknowledged in an article in 1961 that, in the course of the struggle, he served as a RAF officer within the Orkneys. There, he claims to have joined a black magic circle and turn into a practising Satanist. This bizarre story will get stranger nonetheless, however we’ll return to Hod’s alleged Satanic bent quickly sufficient; first, we should examine the circumstances surrounding the mysterious disappearance of his younger feminine “ward.”
Dibben claims to have determined to depart the black magic circle only some years after he joined, a choice he says he made as a result of his participation in a Satanic ritual known as “The Lady and the Goat”. It’s throughout this ceremony by which Hod advised newspapers that his black magic circle, by which he claimed to have as soon as been an Elder, provided a human sacrifice; but, he’s additionally cautious to state that the woman who was “sacrificed” was not murdered however as an alternative wounded and eternally psychologically scarred.
Dibben wrote a collection of articles for The Folks newspaper within the early 60s entitled; Slave of Devil; My Demise Warrant; I Flee From the Vengeance of Devil’s Brotherhood; and I Cursed This Man and He Fell Useless respectively, which described the aftermath of his supposed foray into the darkish arts. Within the article ‘I Cursed This Man and He Fell Useless´, Dibben bombastically states:
“As a totally fledged member of that circle I had surrendered my physique and soul to the worship of evil. I revelled within the wildest orgies and rituals attended by women and men equally wicked as I. Willingly I rejected goodness, honesty and purity. Of their place I embraced lust and obscenity. Solely after two years of this depravity, after I attended a very loathsome and horrible ceremony, was I jerked again to my senses and satisfied that I have to stop this evil cult.”
Regardless that this might be seen as simply the ramblings of an eccentric previous coot with a wild creativeness, Horace Dibben performed an important half in a number of extraordinarily excessive degree sexual compromise operations within the close to future that concerned intelligence circles and highly effective parts of British organized crime. One in all these operations would finally deliver down the federal government within the UK and would practically do the identical within the USA.
At the beginning of the Fifties, Hod and his first spouse obtained divorced and, quickly after, he misplaced many of the inheritance he was anticipating from his late father’s property. Nevertheless, he nonetheless had Patsy. Hod Dibben claimed that Patsy turned his ward when she was twelve-years-old, which means that this might have occurred someday between the beginning of World Warfare II and 1940. Nevertheless, different studies state that Patsy was sixteen-years-old when she got here underneath the guardianship of Dibben, which suggests it occurred after the struggle. That is most likely more likely. Why she agreed to this association is unknown, however Horace Dibben himself described his resolution to turn into her guardian as a part of an try to mould her into the “excellent lady.”
All through the Fifties, it appeared that every part was going fallacious for Hod Dibben. The Shepton Mallet Journal reported on 4 March 1955 that: “Horace Dibben, former proprietor of Lytes Cary Manor, Kingsdon, Somerset, and now of 24, Eaton Place, London S.W.1. was given a suspended sentence of 1 month’s imprisonment at Langport.” Dibben had been summoned to courtroom for “non-payment of a high quality, prices and Nationwide Well being contribution arrears,” he might solely keep away from serving jail time by paying a high quality of over £70. Over two months later, Horace Dibben’s chapter was introduced within the Westminster and Pimlico Information with one other chapter discover reported by the identical outlet the next yr. Nevertheless dangerous life appeared to be getting for Hod Dibben by 1956, he was nonetheless rich sufficient to purchase a sizeable stake in Esmeralda’s Barn.
Hod Dibben had misplaced his spouse, his fortune, his inheritance, and, with the reported disappearance of Patsy Morgan-Dibben, he had misplaced his beloved ward. It’s throughout this era that the wild and unruly world of Hod Dibben begins its spiral in direction of infamy.
The “Satan Himself” Took Patsy Morgan-Dibben
As beforehand talked about, Hod Dibben had claimed that he turned Patsy’s ward when she was solely twelve-years-old, which was the explanation she had taken on his surname. In a 1961 article, Dibben acknowledged that Patsy had been: “The grocery store’s daughter whom I had taken into my house and introduced up with the extravagant concept of turning her into the right lady.” Dibben had misplaced his guardianship of Patsy as soon as she had turned twenty-one and their relationship had been very unusual from the off, made stranger by Horace himself. An article within the Sunday Mirror, revealed 28 July 1957, started rewriting Horace’s supposed historical past with Patsy, with the author, Peter Hawkins, claiming that: “Patsy was a sixteen-year-old typist when she met Dibben. She answered his commercial: “Clever younger woman wished for vintage enterprise.” The latter article additionally mentions that Horace Dibben had despatched her to “an unique ending college.”
By the mid-50s, Patsy Morgan-Dibben was having a really fascinating profession. She was nearly to be put in by Hod Dibben because the hostess of Esmeralda’s Barn and he or she had been operating a publicity company in London’s West Finish. On this latter function, she represented a number of the stars of the silver display screen and acted because the agent for Hollywood actresses corresponding to Zena Marshall and Jean Carson. In actual fact, Patsy herself was starting to turn into an icon, showing in The Sketch journal on 19 October 1955 because it celebrated the reopening of Esmeralda’s Barn with an image of Patsy being serenaded by Cy Grant, the Guyanese actor and musician, who sang Caribbean and people songs in revues and cabaret venues throughout this era.
As talked about within the first article of this sequence, Patsy Morgan-Dibben was ultimately erroneously described by many as the girl who had initially created Esmeralda’s Barn, with books corresponding to Douglas Thompson’s “Stephen Ward: Scapegoat” referring to Esmeralda’s Barn as: “A membership established by Patsy Morgan-Dibben.” Below the stewardship of Patsy Morgan-Dibben and the enigmatic Hod Dibben, Esmeralda’s Barn began to turn into a centre for illicit actions. It was additionally famous in Thompson’s guide that Esmeralda’s Barn throughout this era had common visitors corresponding to Invoice Astor and Stephen Ward. Thompson described the night time membership as being: “5 minutes from the American Embassy in Grosvenor Sq., not far more from the Russian Embassy in Kensington Park Gardens, and a quick drive alongside the Embankment and a few lefts from Whitehall, it was handy.” Esmeralda’s Barn’s shut location to the “lifeless letter drop containers”, which have been being utilized by Soviets in Britain to go on data they’d collected to their “KGB hands-on controllers,” as Thompson phrases it, made the Knightsbridge night time spot a hub of Chilly Warfare exercise.
Thompson additionally wrote that:
“Alexander Nekrassov’s father was a KGB colonel, as was his stepfather, and he spent his youth within the London Embassy. In 2013, the previous Kremlin adviser and Soviet specialist advised me: ‘Within the late Fifties, there have been many, many Russian diplomats or researchers or whatevers hooked up to the Embassy. All of them labored for the KGB. Why else have been they there? It was the Chilly Warfare, it was frenetic – the world wasn’t going to finish tomorrow, it’d finish immediately. That was the atmosphere they have been working in. Each one that got here to London from Moscow had a particular mission. It wasn’t to study to make tea.’ Which wasn’t on provide at Esmeralda’s. time and knowledge have been.”
On Sunday 19 August 1956, the Sunday Pictorial reported on the unusual disappearance of Patsy Morgan-Dibben. In an article, entitled: Night time Membership Lady Riddle – Earl of Warwick Solutions a ‘Pic’ Name, the Sunday Pictorial reporters knowledgeable their readership in regards to the curious story of a lacking night time membership hostess in a really acquainted London night-spot. The piece explains: “The woman is Patsy Morgan-Dibben, 28. Six weeks in the past she left Esmeralda’s Barn, the Knightsbridge membership she had been operating for the previous yr.” Throughout this era, Patsy Morgan-Dibben had been dwelling in a luxurious flat in Eaton-place, Belgravia, alongside together with her authorized guardian, the aforementioned Horace Dibben.
Dibben would later turn into the organiser of black magic themed intercourse events catering to sure teams of London’s elites. Many individuals would think about Dibben’s relationships with very younger ladies to be suspicious at greatest and paedophilic at worst, as Horace Dibben appeared to repeatedly goal ladies between the ages of twelve and seventeen-years-old, together with nicely after the disappearance of Patsy Morgan-Dibben. A few of his extra sinister behaviour can be totally revealed in subsequent instalments of this sequence, alongside a number of the most weird actual life accounts of exercise inside the greater echelons of this particular black magic circle, an alleged Satanic cult with some very highly effective and rich members.
By some means, Esmeralda’s Barn had shortly fallen into the fingers of a gaggle of very twisted characters and, solely a yr after the loss of life of Esme Gullan, the hostess who had changed the green-eyed Esmeralda had gone lacking. The Sunday Pictorial reporters “took up the search” to search out Patsy Morgan-Dibben. They claimed to have known as the Villa Grevillea at St. Jean Cap Ferrat, which was owned on the time by Hon. Richard Maynard Greville, who was the youthful brother of the Earl of Warwick. The reporters declare to have spoken to the Earl himself and he gave a really detailed quote, with the 45-year-old stating: “Patsy left right here by air on Friday morning, for Zurich I believe.” Occurring to speak about his youthful brother, the Earl advised the reporters: “I don’t precisely know the place Richard is, however I believe he’s touring Italy. I ought to suppose he’s with Patsy.” The Earl elaborated: “There isn’t a thriller about Patsy’s keep right here. She got here a number of weeks in the past and has been right here earlier than. She has been the visitor of my brother and myself.”
As an alternative of claiming his piece and transferring on, the Earl of Warwick is quoted once more:
“No matter individuals may need mentioned about this are baseless slanders. We’ve been buddies for a very long time. And this was a purely social event. I noticed little or no of her as she spent a lot of her time with different visitors. No matter different males buddies she might have are her enterprise and, as far as I’m involved, hers alone. Patsy is kind of able to understanding her personal intimate issues in her personal manner.”
The Earl appeared eager to quash any potential rumours, no matter they might be, earlier than they gained any traction in any respect. Patsy, when put into place at Esmeralda’s Barn, had began to be described as ‘London’s latest and youngest night time membership proprietor’ and her disappearance from the favored membership had clearly left most of the rich patrons with questions, significantly after the current deaths of night time membership house owners and hostesses corresponding to Esmeralda Gullan and Barbara Knox Marsh.
The article, which fits on to make a quick point out of the membership’s ‘earlier proprietor’ Esmeralda Noel-Smith’s tragic loss of life, additionally makes a really fascinating point out underneath the subtitle “Transient word”, saying: “Earlier than leaving all of the sudden she [Patsy Morgan-Dibben] advised the supervisor, Stefan de Fey, former host of B.B.C. tv’s “Cafe Continental”—“I can’t let you know why I’m going, however one thing thrilling is to occur.” The article additionally notes that Patsy was recognized by her first title not solely to the membership guests like Billy Wallace, beforehand talked about artist, Pietro Annigoni, and the Duke of Kent, but in addition by many different stage and display screen stars of the interval. Patsy had reportedly left Horace Dibben a”transient word” earlier than she disappeared.
Patsy Morgan-Dibben appeared within the newspapers on a number of events from the time she took over Esmeralda’s Barn onwards. One extraordinarily peculiar report from after she initially went lacking was revealed within the Weekly Dispatch on 28 April 1957, entitled: “Ex-Main and Lady Plan ‘Chute Drop Over Pole,” began by saying: “A person who as soon as kidnapped a German basic, and a lovely lady who has by no means jumped from something greater than bar stool, are planning to parachute right down to the frozen wastes of the North Pole.” The overall, Mr. William Stanley Moss, who had been a war-time member of the British Particular Operations Service, hopes that on Midsummer Day he would be the first to parachute over the Arctic Circle. The article quotes Miss Morgan-Dibben as saying: “I do know individuals will suppose I’m loopy to go. Maybe I’m, however it seems like enjoyable, anyway.”
By Sunday 28 July 1957, Patsy Morgan-Dibben was featured once more within the Sunday Mirror with the identical reporter, Peter Hawkins, who wrote: “Patsy Morgan-Dibben, the woman from a tenement who was taught the airs and graces of Excessive society by a rich man, identical to Eliza Doolittle in Shaw’s ‘Pygmalion,’ might now marry into society.” The hearsay on this event was that Patsy Morgan-Dibben was as a result of marry into “Excessive society” after agreeing to wed the nephew of Lord Onamore and Browne, one of many largest landowners in Eire. The person she was supposedly as a result of marry was Michael Mordaunt-Smith, who was quoted as saying: “Patsy is essentially the most fantastic woman on the planet. We mentioned marriage this week – as we have now performed many occasions earlier than. However nothing particular has but been organized.”
From the time Patsy Morgan-Dibben initially made front-page information after reportedly going lacking, all through the next yr or so, many studies, virtually solely from the Sunday Mirror publication, started to comply with her weird and unverifiable adventures. But, it might be Horace Dibben’s personal articles, written within the early 60s, that inform us a few of what Patsy Morgan-Dibben might have skilled. At the moment, Horace Dibben claimed that Patsy had been taken by a darkish stranger, a Hungarian-born lawyer, high quality artwork seller, diplomat and inventor by the title of Andre Gabor Tihamer Boszormenyi, who Horace Dibben claimed: “Got here to my house with a enterprise proposition.” The enterprise deal he sought was reportedly: “The management of an evening membership in Knightsbridge, Esmeralda’s Barn.” If Horace didn’t comply with Boszormenyi’s calls for then he was advised that he’d by no means see Patsy once more.
The Satan Himself – Andre Gabor Tihamer Boszormenyi
A younger Boszormenyi was pictured hanging out amongst the elites within the US state of Florida in an image,revealed in Tatler on 17 April 1935. The picture reveals him alongside Miss Martha Magrane, a gorgeous American socialite who lived a part of the yr in London together with her mom who was described within the Bystander publication in January 1936 as a “dreamy poetess.” The latter publication on 22 Might 1935 reported that: “Martha Magrane is over right here for the summer season together with her mom, who has taken a home in Queen Anne’s Mansions as a change to North Carolina.” It additionally seems that Miss Magrane died the yr after she was pictured alongside the intriguing Hungarian. Throughout World Warfare II, Boszormenyi was despatched to a British internment camp underneath the guard of the Metropolitan Police’s Particular Department from 9 December 1941. He appealed the choice to detain him, together with his enchantment being refused on 9 March 1942.
Andre Gabor Tihamer Boszormenyi was not solely employed as a practising lawyer, relatively, he was greatest recognized and most profitable as an inventor and had varied patents underneath his belt for stress trade units in jet engines. By the Fifties, Boszormenyi was primarily engaged on new improvements in fuel turbine expertise for jet engines on behalf of Jendrassik Developments LTD, a Hungarian firm which was led by György Jendrassik. Till his loss of life in 1954, Jendrassik had additionally been behind the innovation of assorted advances in fuel generators for plane.
In June 1941, Germany and Hungary signed a mutual defence pact and this noticed Jendrassik’s firm on the time, the Invention Growth and Advertising and marketing Co. Ltd., arm Nazi fighters and bombers with turbine expertise such because the “turboprop Jendrassik Cs-1.” It additionally led to Hungarian-born males, corresponding to Andre Boszormenyi, being despatched to internment camps. Jendrassik fled Hungary for the Nazi safe-haven of Argentina after World Warfare II with the Hungarian authorities web site stating that he had moved as a result of: “mistrust surrounded him”. After his self-imposed exile to Argentina, Jendrassik moved to England, the place he stayed till the top of his life.
Boszormenyi labored alongside Clara (spelt Klára in Hungarian) Jendrassik, a detailed relative of György Jendrassik, collectively registering their patents within the US, Germany, Britain, and elsewhere. All of those patents had navy functions. Boszormenyi’s immigration papers to Brazil in 1950 additionally present that he was thought of a British citizen by this time. His deal with was formally (and curiously) listed on these paperwork as being Leicester Basic Hospital, Gwendoline Street, Leicester.
Notably, the Nationwide Gallery in Britain additionally possesses correspondence between a person named Cesar de Hauke and Andre Boszormenyi regarding the buy of the Cézanne masterpiece “La vieille au chapelet,” previously of the Jacques Doucet assortment. De Hauke was a controversial determine who had been one of many artwork sellers reported by the OSS Artwork Looting Investigation Unit in 1946, who have been investigating lacking artworks that had been looted by the Nazis. Regardless that he was clearly a suspect within the profiteering from Nazi-looted artworks, De Hauke additionally turned buddies with the well-known “Monuments Man” officer, Tom How, with their relationship persevering with lengthy after World Warfare II.
Boszormenyi was hanging round amongst the elites from very early on and his affiliation with the highly effective and rich continued, with the Tatler publishing an image in 1955 of Boszormenyi with Madam Mendoza, the spouse of the then-Cuban Ambassador to Spain, on the Spanish Embassy. In October 1956, a photograph of Boszormenyi additionally appeared within the publication Sketch and reveals him in dialog with the Spanish Ambassador of the interval, the Duke of Primo de Rivera at a Spanish embassy reception. At this occasion, the daughter of Winston Churchill was additionally in attendance. In 1950, the illusive Hungarian lawyer, inventor, artwork seller and diplomat had additionally been pictured alongside Don G. Nadal — the First Secretary on the Spanish Embassy.
In actual fact, Boszormenyi was typically famous as having attended varied worldwide embassies, together with the Belgian Embassy, the place he loved a meal alongside Lord and Girl Strabolgi, Sir Louis and Girl Grieg, Sir Richard and Girl Fairey, in addition to varied different members of the British aristocracy. By the Fifties, Boszormenyi was steadily travelling between London and New York, whereas additionally taking common journeys to Mexico and the Bahamas, together with his title showing on a number of passenger lists throughout this era.
What precisely Andre Gabor Tihamer Boszormenyi was really doing in any respect these completely different occasions just isn’t utterly clear. However in accordance with Hod Dibben, he was a excessive rating Satanist doing the bidding of the satan himself and he had taken Patsy Morgan-Dibben from him. Nevertheless, ultimately, Horace Dibben didn’t want at hand over management of Esmeralda’s Barn to Boszormenyi as had been demanded, after it was found that the bizarre Hungarian had dropped lifeless as a result of a sudden coronary heart assault on the age of 49 years-old on 6 Jan 1957.
What can also be actually notable regarding Andre Boszormenyi are the lads who handled the probate for his final will and testomony. One in all them was Henry d’Avigdor-Goldsmid, an ex-Military man with a distinguished navy profession all through World Warfare II. Extra notable is the truth that d’Avigdor-Goldsmid was, quickly after the loss of life of Boszormenyi, to turn into the Chairman of the Anglo-Israel Financial institution from 1961. He would additionally later turn into the Chairman of Robert Maxwell’s Pergamon Press from 1969 till 1971, in the course of the interval when Maxwell was briefly ousted from the corporate.
The opposite man who acted as probate for the final will and testomony of Andre Boszormenyi was Philip Beaumont Frere. who was married to Victoria Mary Enid Anne Frere, whose maiden title was Dugdale. Victoria Frere was a relative of the Earl of Warwick and Richard Maynard Greville who, as talked about earlier on this story, had given an alibi as to why Patsy Morgan-Dibben had all of the sudden disappeared. Electoral information additionally present that between 1947 and 1950 Philip Beaumont Frere and Andre Boszomenyi each lived within the prosperous Lincoln’s Inn Fields in London and that Boszomenyi did ultimately relocate to stay at 23 Down Avenue, which was additionally the residence of the aforementioned youthful brother of the Earl of Warwick, Hon. Richard Maynard Greville.
One irregular and intriguing side of the final will and testomony of Andre Gabor Tihamer Boszormenyi was that it was not actioned inside the UK and was as an alternative despatched to the Bahamas to be handled. On Tuesday 05 Mar 1957, The Night Commonplace newspaper reported that Boszormenyi had left £31,969 after tax in his final will and testomony, however the article doesn’t point out who acquired the inheritance.
Solely Black Sheep Want Apply
After narrowly avoiding giving up Esmeralda’s Barn to “the satan himself”, Horace Dibben went on to open one other membership in Piccadilly in an effort to courtroom Britain’s upper-class. In a Day by day Mirror article from 3 December 1959, entitled: “Solely Black Sheep Want Apply,” reporter John Rolls wrote: “Vintage seller Hod Dibben is opening a wise, unique night time membership in Mayfair specifically for titled and prime individuals. It’s known as “The Black Sheep” and it’s in a slim lane simply off Piccadilly.” Rolls continued: “Hod tells me: ‘I don’t need the entire social flock for my members. Simply the black sheep. They’re the rarest.’”
A few of the individuals who Dibben invited to have a free meal on the opening of his new enterprise have been marketed as: Viscount Euston; The Earl of Coventry; Prince Shiv of Palitana; and The Earl of Warwick, in addition to many different society regulars who frequented the elite consuming institutions of Mayfair, Knightsbridge and Belgravia throughout this era. Dibben’s enterprise associate within the Black Sheep was Pat Steele. She was reported to have requested “all people to the get together” for the opening of the bar, even Sir Winston and Girl Churchill, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis had been invited to the opening ceremony. Nevertheless, the launch was reported as a flop, with the Night Commonplace reporter who attended the occasion stating: “I waited for the Black Sheep’s guest-list to elongate. It didn’t. I left.” Dibben was trying to draw a number of the strongest individuals in Britain into his lair, and, at first, there didn’t appear to be a lot curiosity. However Horace’s ventures ultimately attracted extra highly effective elites.
Like most of the different night time membership ladies on this sequence, Patsy Morgan-Dibben appears to have utterly disappeared. Extra intricate tales about Patsy dwelling on the European continent are handed round, however, as of but, there isn’t any concrete first-hand proof that she survived past her time at Esmeralda’s Barn.
Horace Dibben didn’t wait round for her return, as he was quickly on the hunt for his subsequent potential younger feminine “ward.” In April 1958, playwright Henry Fielding reported for the Day by day Herald, writing: “Sixteen-year-old Maureen Shelley advised me final night time she had acquired a wedding proposal from Mr. Horace Dibben, the vintage seller, who’s 53. However, she says she hasn’t but determined whether or not to simply accept. Dibben you keep in mind, was the guardian of grocer’s daughter Patsy Morgan, whom he swept to fame as a society hostess. As Patsy Morgan-Dibben, she ran an evening membership which turned the trend of the good set, together with the Duke of Kent.” Horace “Hod” Dibben was once more looking for a lady he might mould, mannequin and use as he desired. The younger woman in query on this event, described as a “shapely red-head”, advised the reporter: “Mr. Dibben has met my Mummy, and all of us had a chat, Mummy says it’s as much as me. I’m pondering it over.” The younger Miss Shelley had recognized Hod Dibben for 2 months earlier than he requested for her hand in marriage. Regardless that she refers to Dibben as “an exquisite man”, the pair didn’t ultimately wed.
Nevertheless, the woman who was as soon as described by the newspapers as “Pygmalion Patsy” was quickly to get replaced by one other, much more fascinating younger woman. Dibben’s subsequent associate and future spouse was a younger temptress who he’d employed to work at his Black Sheep night time membership and who was to remain by his facet for over a decade earlier than she, like so many different night time membership ladies of the interval, died of a reported overdose. Hod Dibben’s latest Pygmalion night time membership woman, nonetheless, would ultimately find yourself within the bedrooms of different males, far past Britain, allegedly together with then-president-elect John F. Kennedy.
