They never married
Ian Hamilton, 10 May 1990
The Dictionary of National Biography: 1981-1985
edited by Lord Blake and C.S. Nicholls.
Oxford, 518 pp., £40, March 1990,0 19 865210 0 Show More
edited by Lord Blake and C.S. Nicholls.
Oxford, 518 pp., £40, March 1990,
“... On Blunt, it is conjectured that ‘at a time when homosexual acts were still illegal in Britain, he seems to have relished the resulting atmosphere of secrecy and intrigue.’ Of MacLean we learn that, when head of Chancery in Cairo in the late Forties, he was ‘subjected to psychiatric examination for his homosexuality and alcoholism’. It was ... ”