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George Bryan Brummell (born 's online magazine His style of dress came to be known as Dandyism . Barbey D'Aurevilly, Jules . ''Of Dandyism and of George Brummell''. Translated by Douglas Ainslie. New York: PAJ Publications, 1988. Brummell was an undergraduate student at Oriel College in 1794. He embarked upon a military career, but abandoned it when he learned that his regiment had been ordered to Manchester . A falling-out with the , who's your fat friend?" (referring to Prince George , who had snubbed him shortly beforehand) probably didn't help. Brummell fled to France in 1816 as the result of thousands of pounds of accumulated debts to tradesmen.Brummell's Gambling debts, as "debts of honour," were always paid immediately. Brummell lived in France for the rest of his life. He died penniless and insane from Syphilis in Caen in 1840. .]] __NOTOC__ BRUMMELL IN POPULAR CULTURE Brummell appears as a character in Arthur Conan Doyle 's 1896 historical novel '' Rodney Stone ''. In the novel, the title character's uncle, Charles Tregellis, is the center of the London fashion world, until Brummell ultimately supplants him. Tregellis' subsequent death from mortification serves as a '' Deus Ex Machina '' in that it resolves Rodney Stone's family poverty, as his rich uncle bequeaths a sum to his sister. Brummell's life was later dramatised in
Georgette Heyer , author of a number of Regency Romance novels, included a character named after Brummell in her 1935 Novel '' Regency Buck ''. Watchmaker LeCoultre made a watch named after him during the 1940s and 1950s . It is an extremely simple watch with no numbers and a small modern face. Brummell's name was adopted by the faux- British Invasion band The Beau Brummels who had Top 40 hit records in 1965. Brummell is the detective-hero of a series of period mysteries by Rosemary Stevens, including ''Death on a Silver Tray'' (2000), ''The Tainted Snuff Box'' (2001), ''The Bloodied Cravat'' (2002), and ''Murder in the Pleasure Gardens'' (2003). A statue of Brummell by Irena Sedlecka was erected on London 's Jermyn Street in 2002. Memorial to Brummell from londonremembers.com Incidental mentions T. S. Eliot mentioned him in ''Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats'' (which Andrew Lloyd Webber later made into the hit Broadway musical '' Cats '') in his poem about Bustopher Jones: "In the whole of St. James's the smartest of names / Is the name of this Brummell of cats." French novelist Honoré de Balzac, in his Traité de la vie élégante (1830s), depicts an aging, wig-wearing and somewhat overweight Brummell discussing fashion and defining the "elegant" lifestyle with the French. He also is affectionately remembered by Little Orphan Annie in the Broadway musical '' Annie '' (1977), wherein she refers to his keen sense of fashion: "Your clothes may be Beau Brummelly, they stand out a mile ... you're never fully dressed without a smile". From singer-songwriter Billy Joel 's " Glass Houses " album (1980), the listener is told in the hit "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" that "you could really be a Beau Brummell, baby, if you just give it half a chance". In the television series '' Doctor Who '', a 1984 episode entitled " The Twin Dilemma " featured a recently regenerated Sixth Doctor , who, upon choosing his clothes and being told he "looks dreadful", retorts: "That, my dear, is what they said about Beau Brummell." In his autobiography entitled ...And I Havent Had A Bad Day Since , Charlie Rangel mentions that when his grandfather dressed up he looked like Beau Brummell. REFERENCES AND FOOTNOTES FURTHER READING
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