The novelist J. R. Ackerley wrote in his memoir My Father and Myself that he considered his guardsman father to have been the lover of an aristocrat for a long period of time before pursuing a wife and family, economically bettered in the end by the support he had received from his male partner.
In his memoir "My Father and Myself," J.R. Ackerley recounts that his father was in a long-term relationship with an aristocratic woman before marrying and starting a family. This arrangement proved beneficial for his father's financial well-being, as he received support from his male partner.