William Horace de Vere Cole (5 May 1881 – 25 February 1936) was an eccentric prankster born in Ballincollig, County Cork, Ireland. His most famous prank...
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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...
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The Dreadnought hoax was a practical joke pulled by Horace de Vere Cole in 1910. Cole tricked the Royal Navy into showing their flagship, the battleship...
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Ireland Horace de Vere Cole (1881–1936), prankster and eccentric Henry de Vere Stacpoole (1863–1951), Irish author "Lady Clara Vere de Vere", an English...
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Anne Chamberlain (redirect from Anne de Vere Cole)
Craughwell, County Galway, in 1888. Her brother was the noted prankster Horace de Vere Cole (1881–1936), who inherited the family seat some time after 1889;...
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(née Mabel Winifred Mary Wright, 1908–1970), the former wife of Horace de Vere Cole and of Sir Mortimer Wheeler, and a former mistress of Augustus John...
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The house passed into the hands of the Cole family and was inherited by the notorious prankster Horace de Vere Cole on the death of his grandmother in 1906...
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appears to be a mistaken reference to the Bunya-Bunya pine. In 1910 Horace de Vere Cole, Virginia Woolf, her brother Adrian Stephen and a small group of...
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suspects have included Dawson, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Arthur Keith, Martin A. C. Hinton, Horace de Vere Cole and Arthur Conan Doyle. The focus on Charles...
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criminal Horace de Vere Cole (1881–1936), British prankster Horace de Viel-Castel (1802–1864), French art-lover, collector, and museum director Horace Dimick...
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