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, patron of the arts and a former lover of Oscar Wilde.Day, p. 33 In 1914, Streatfeild became a mentor to the then-14-year-old actor and later famed author Noël Coward. Coward's social ascendancy began thanks to Streatfeild who, before his death, asked wealthy socialite Mrs Astley Cooper to take Coward under her wing.Evangeline Julia Marshall, an eccentric society hostess (1854–1944), married Clement Paston Astley Cooper, grandson of Sir Astley Paston Cooper. She inherited Hambleton Hall in 1899, and there she entertained rising talents in the artistic world, including Streatfeild, the conductor

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and the writer Charles Scott Moncrieff, as well as the young Coward. See Callow, Simon
"Englishman abroad"
''The Guardian'', 19 April 2006, accessed 8 February 2009

The Peerage, accessed 8 February 2009; an
"History"
Hambleton Hall website, accessed 8 February 2009 Mrs Astley Cooper continued to encourage her late friend's protégé, who remained a frequent guest at her estate, Hambleton Hall in Rutland.Hoare, pp. 39–43 Streatfeild enlisted in the army in November 1914 but contracted

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and was invalided out in the spring of 1915. He died from the disease in June 1915 at age 35.

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*Day, Barry (ed). ''The Letters of Noël Coward'', Methuen, 2007, *Hoare, Philip
''Noel Coward: A Biography''
University of Chicago Press, 1998. {{DEFAULTSORT:Streatfeild, Philip Philip 1879 births 1915 deaths 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis English portrait painters 20th-century English painters English male painters English LGBT painters British Army personnel of World War I Tuberculosis deaths in England Sherwood Foresters officers 20th-century English male artists

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