George  Bryan "Beau" Brummell was an Oxford-educated gentleman without any aristocratic lineage or family fortune,  but his friendship with the Prince of Wales helped elevate him. An independent man of independent means who desired  the best of everything — and got it — he rose to become the leader of fashionable society by his wit and his irresistible personality. His exquisite manner of dressing, disdain of anything vulgar, and his great appreciation of beauty,  combined with an extraordinarily cool composure and rare charm, defined him as one of the truly unique characters  in English history. Outside #4 Chesterfield Street, Brummell's first London address Real Historical Figures in the Beau Brummell Mystery Series Besides Beau Brummell, other characters in Death on a Silver Tray were real people living in 1805: George, Prince of Wales The Duke of Clarence The Duke of York (and his mistress, Mary Anne Clarke) Frederica, the Duchess of York Viscount Petersham Lady Salisbury Robinson John Lavender Scrope Davies Edmund Kean Poodle Byng Lumley Skeffington Lord Yarmouth Old Dawe Juan Floris of Floris's (which is still in London today) W. Griffin, the sedan chair maker Weston, the famous tailor Meyer, tailor Guthrie, tailor Home | Death on a Silver Tray | The Tainted Snuff Box | The Bloodied Cravat | Murder in the Pleasure Gardens Beau Brummell  | Regency | Author | England | Links | Appearances | Robinson