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Brummell, Beau (George Bryan)

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Brummell, Beau (George Bryan) (1778-1840)

English dandy and leader of fashion. He introduced long trousers as conventional day and evening wear for men. A friend of the Prince of Wales, the future George IV, he later quarrelled with him. Gambling losses drove him in 1816 to exile in France, where he died in an asylum.
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