Frederick William Williams, 5th Bt. (1888-1913)

Obituary
ECCENTRIC BARONET'S DEATH INCENSE, FLOWERS AND ETHER (From Our Special Representative.) LONDON, Saturday.

Sir Frederick William Williams has died in Paris from an overdose of ether.

He occupied an expensively furnished flat in the Montmartre district, the rooms being always decorated with rare flowers, while censers containing delightful perfumes were continually burning in the apartments.

The dead baronet was the third [sic] of his line to hold the title, and ten years ago he inherited a large fortune. Thereupon he left his country home and led a Bohemian life in London, becoming the central figure of a group of aesthetic and eccentric youths whose doings became notorious In Kensington.

They had one room, upholstered entirely in black, with a coffin in the centre, beside which burned incense. A human skull always stood at the head of the coffin, and black curtains at the windows excluded the daylight.

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