He also wrote biographies of Marie Antoinette and Joan of Arc, as well as serving as Liberal Member of Parliament for Sutherland.

He was accused by the Prince of Wales of "unnatural practices" and was one of several society figures implicated in the Cleveland Street Scandal, where a male brothel was raided by police.

[3] He was succeeded as MP by his nephew Cromartie, Marquess of Stafford (the elder surviving son of his eldest brother the 3rd Duke of Sutherland).

Lord Ronald shared a studio in Sir Joshua Reynolds's old home in Leicester Square with John O'Connor, an Irish landscape painter and theatrical designer.

[3] In 1875, he travelled to Paris to begin sculpting in the studio of Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, one of the founding members of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.

[9] John Addington Symonds, who stayed with him once, stated that Gower "saturates one's spirit in Urningthum [homosexuality] of the rankest most diabolical kind".

It's been surmised this legal oddity was due to the British Government's desire not to provoke Shackleton, a key suspect in the theft of the Irish Crown Jewels in 1907, and which might have caused him to publicly voice details of his prominent associations.

[17] Due to the loss of his fortune, Gower was forced to sell his country house, Hammerfield at Penshurst in Kent, to Arnold Hills.