Beau Nash [ Fashion ]
… 1909. Résumé Richard Nash, known as Beau Nash by his contemporaries, played a decisive part in the transformation of Bath, Britain’s ancient watering-place, into a fashionable resort. The inventor of a new type of spa sociability, he … Swansea in 1674, has gone down in history as Beau Nash – the inventor of spa sociability in Britain – and the ‘king of Bath’, a remarkable contributor to the creation of a British model of sociability. Oliver Goldsmith, the author of his … gaming table quickly became his main source of revenue and it is the prospect of gambling gains that attracted him to Bath at the turn of the century. 1 . Oliver Goldsmith, The Life of Richard Nash, of Bath, Esq. Extracted Principally from …
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