English writer, translator and socialite Anthony Watson-Gandy was BOTD in 1919. Born at Heaves in Levens, Westmorland to an aristocratic family, he was educated at private schools and attended Cambridge University and the Sorbonne in Paris. During World War Two, he joined the Royal Air Force, gaining the rank of Flying Officer. After the war, was awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur for his war service. He settled in Rome, where he developed an opium addiction and became the lover of American celebrity rent boy (and fellow addict) Denham Fouts. After Fouts’ death from an opium overdose in 1948, he fled Europe for the Far East, settling in Macao where he obtained a Chinese boyfriend. In between bouts with the opium pipe, he worked occasionally as a translator and linguist, translating René Grouset’s book The Rise and Splendour of the Chinese Empire into Mandarin. He relocated to Paris, dying there in 1952, two days short of his 33rd birthday. No photos of Watson-Gandy appear to have survived, so we at SuperGays Headquarters have enclosed a photo of the unrelated (and heterosexual) English model David Gandy.