Frederick the Great: A Most Lamentable History Breaching Space and Time.

There were two big positions at the Royal Mint in the 17th century. The Warden was theoretically the big dog, in charge of tracking down counterfeiters and generally ensuring the stability of the realm’s currency. The Master was the one responsible for the contract distribution, and that’s where the money was to be made. Newton started out as the former, which is where he developed his mastery of disguise (no, really – way for reals history this time guys!), and then, realizing that there was money to be made, promptly jumped ship to the latter.
As to what Sir Anthony St. Leger’s dark secret is, who can say? There are a lot of Sir Anthony St. Leger’s in history, and the one who was Warden of the Mint is one of the less brightly shining lights of that name clan. Pepys mentions him once in his diaries in connection with buying a new printing press for the Mint. And, really, he was just co-Warden for a third of his years in the post. Two or three Wardens later, we get Owen Wynne in the position, who is so miraculously even-keeled that he’s almost exotic. Then, wait another couple of Wardens, and you’re at Newton. Unfortunately, the title expired in 1829.
– Count Dolby von Luckner

Beethoven’s usual modus operandi with regards women was precisely this – he would find a family, integrate himself into it, and then fall in love with the wife, knowing full well he could never really act upon it. Solomon, good Freudian that he is, has a BIT to say on the topic.
Want to read more about Dora Carrington? Then I would urge pretty much anything but her biography by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina – it’s one of those surpassingly rare books that, in attempting to make its central heroine come out well, ends up making her look just awful. It’s a book that has lots of good information, but you have to immunize yourself against some of its excesses first, and Michael Holroyd’s Lytton Strachey: The New Biography is a good place to start. She doesn’t show up for quite a while in there, of course, but when she does, there are some moments of real beauty and truth in Holroyd’s portrayal that truly leave you wanting more.
– Count Dolby von Luckner