Patrick Gamble (socialite)

Patrick Henry Noel Gamble (1904-1956) was, together with his sister Rosemary, part of the Bright Young Things of the 1920s.
Biography
Patrick Henry Noel Gamble was born in 1904, the son of Henry Gamble, Anglican priest and author, Dean of Exeter in the Church of England from 1918 to 1931, and Helen Maud Isherwood. His sister was Anthea Rosemary Gamble Carew, a close friend of Brenda Dean Paul.
Patrick Gamble hosted one of the early "Blackbirds" parties in Mayfair, parties that will have a huge impact on the Bright Young Things. He was a friend of Matthew Ponsonby, 2nd Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede. In his diaries Evelyn Waugh describes his dining with Ponsonby and Gamble.
In the later 1930s, he was the lover of Hilary Inez Elizabeth White and it was involved in her divorce proceedings with David Wilmer. Moreover Wilmer used Gamble as an alibi when he was framed with the Hyde Park Hotel robbery, he said he spent most of the night collecting papers "relating to a Mr. Patrick Gamble's prospects under his grandfather's will."

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