Dominick Elwes was the grandson of Gervase Cary Elwes, a diplomat and professional classical tenor, and Lady Winifride Mary Elizabeth Feilding, daughter of the 8th Earl of Denbigh.
10 Facts About Dominick Elwes
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Dominick Elwes was a nephew of the English novelist, biographer and journalist Nancy Mitford, and a godson of Evelyn Waugh.
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At age 26, Dominick Elwes met and wished to marry 19-year-old shipping heiress Tessa Kennedy, daughter of Geoffrey Ferrar Kennedy and Daska Ivanovic.
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At trial the judge accepted that Dominick Elwes did love his bride but commented that every parent knows that love was not "readily convertible into bread and butter" for the support of a wife.
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In January 1960 Dominick Elwes became the assistant editor of Lilliput Magazine until its closure in July of that same year.
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Dominick Elwes subsequently became a member of the National Union of Journalists.
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In 1975, Dominick Elwes became part owner with George Britnell of a hair salon, Figurehead, on Pont Street in Knightsbridge which he filled with paintings by his father.
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One of Dominick Elwes' portraits was of John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, who disappeared in November 1974 after the murder of his children's nanny.
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Dominick Elwes committed suicide at 1 Stewart's Grove Chelsea with an overdose of barbiturates in 1975, about a month after the death of his father, and about a month before the death of his mother.
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Dominick Elwes's body was found by his girlfriend Melissa Wyndham.