Talk:Harry Crookshank

Eunuch?
Why has the addition of Crookshank to the 'eunuchs' category been reversed? He was castrated during WWI, as stated in the entry. AuntFlo (talk) 06:15, 30 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I am raising a citation need. It looks too sensational (perhaps linked to fact he was unmarried) to be true unsupported by a citation.Cloptonson (talk) 05:52, 23 October 2015 (UTC)


 * I have checked his biographies in both the DNB (1961-1970) and ODNB - neither explicitly state his injury but both indicate it prevented him fathering children and heirs to any peerage. The injury does not appear to have prevented him growing the conspicuous moustache in his photos.Cloptonson (talk) 13:14, 24 October 2015 (UTC)


 * It's mentioned in "the Guardsmen" which came out about ten years ago. Castration after puberty often does not remove what are known as "secondary characteristics" (broken voice, facial hair). Still, at least the information wasn't incredulously deleted by somebody who hadn't read any of the relevant books, as usually happens in biography articles, so that's better than nothing.Paulturtle (talk) 13:58, 31 October 2015 (UTC)


 * I thank the user concerned for finding a citation, with a little more detail. Pun-spotters may note that the author's surname was Ball, but that does not cause me to doubt it.Cloptonson (talk) 16:27, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

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