Anthony Watson-Gandy

Anthony Blethyn Watson-Gandy (29 June 1919 – 27 June 1952) was a British scholar, translator and socialite, renowned as the last lover of Denham Fouts, a bon vivant and companion to a veritable who's who of pre-1950 homosexuals (such as Viscount Tredegar and Crown Prince Paul of Greece). Watson-Gandy lived in Rome until 1948 with Denny Fouts, who died there from a drug overdose.

Biography Scion of an armigerous gentry family, Watson-Gandy went up to King's College, Cambridge, before pursuing further studies in modern languages at the Sorbonne in Paris. after whose death in 1948 Watson-Gandy travelled to the Far East, settling at Macao where he lived with a Chinese boyfriend, smoking opium and studying Mandarin Chinese.

Watson-Gandy translated from French The Rise and Splendour of the Chinese Empire (1952) by René Grousset,