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Marina Amaral

21 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read

This (in the middle) is Horace de Vere Cole.

In 1910, Cole and five friends (including a young Virginia Woolf) disguised themselves as the Emperor of Abyssinia and his posse (see the photo below), and were given a full VIP tour of the British warship, the H.M.S. Dreadnought.

In the 1800s, he bought tickets for strategically selected seats at a theatrical performance and distributed them to bald men. When the lights went up their shiny heads spelled out a swearword.

Cole would occasionally impersonate prime minister and Labor party leader Ramsay MacDonald, giving speeches that contradicted MacDonald’s actual political views.

More here: sniggle.net/cole.php

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