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He was married to Mary Cecily O'Nolan-Martin in Durban, South Africa, (where he was working as a cotton planter) in 1908. There was one child, Rosamonde, born in London in 1910, who lived solely with her mother from 1911. He disputed her parentage, and there was a court case in 1912. His drug habit
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