Tristan de Vere Cole

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Tristan John de Vere Cole (born 16 March 1935) is an English television director, now retired.

In his first career, he was a Royal Navy Officer for seven years.

Life

Cole is believed to be the last-surviving illegitimate son of the painter

Café Royal in 1928, and agreed to model for him. In 1931 she married Horace de Vere Cole, a well-known Edwardian practical joker, then in 1932 became the mistress of Augustus John. Cole was brought up in the John household at Fryern Court, Fordingbridge, from the age of 18 months, partly by his mother, and then later by Dorelia McNeill.[1][2]

Cole was educated for three years at

BBC television.[citation needed
]

He married Diana Crosby Cook in 1962 and with her has a son, Cassian de Vere Cole, born in 1966, a fine art dealer in London.[5]

In 1993 Cole met Prudence Murdoch, a divorced lawyer with three children, and they set up house together near Newbury in Berkshire. They were married in 2000 and stayed together until her death in 2010.[6]

He now lives in Sutton Scotney, not far from his partner Anne Stow, eldest grandchild of Neville Chamberlain, a former prime minister, whose wife was a sister of Horace de Vere Cole.[citation needed]

Through his father,

First Sea Lord.[7][8][9][10][11]

Work as television director

Work as film director

Publications

  • with Roderic Owen, Beautiful and Beloved: the Life of Mavis de Vere Cole (Hutchinson, 1974)

References

  1. ^ Finding aid: Tristan de Vere Cole (Augustus John) manuscripts at library.wales, accessed 1 March 2019
  2. ^ Darren Devine, "Last illegitimate son of Augustus John on life with 'King of Bohemia'", in Wales Online dated 9 March 2012
  3. ^ Roderic Owen, Tristan de Vere Cole, Beautiful and Beloved: The Life of Mavis de Vere Cole (Hutchinson, 1974), pp. 156, 246
  4. ^ Owen and Cole (1974), p. 265
  5. ^ Bernard Dolman, Who's who in Art, Volume 32 (Art Trade Press, 2006), p. 262
  6. ^ Teresa Davies, Prudence de Vere Cole obituary dated in The Guardian dated 5 July 2010, accessed 28 February 2019
  7. ISBN 0-85052-835-6
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  8. ^ "Gwen John". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  9. ^ "Obituary: Vivien John". The Independent. 27 May 1994.
  10. ^ "Gwyneth Johnstone obituary". The Guardian. 6 January 2011.
  11. ^ Fergus Fleming (5 August 1999). "Obituary: Amaryllis Fleming". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012.
  12. ^ Chris Perry, Kaleidoscope British Christmas Television Guide 1937-2013 (2016), p. 618
  13. ^ David Butler, Time and Relative Dissertations in Space: Critical Perspectives on Doctor Who (Manchester University Press, 2008), p. 316
  14. ^ Harris M. Lentz, Science Fiction, Horror & Fantasy Film and Television Credits: Television shows (McFarland, 2001), p. 2132

External links

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