Roger Angmering

In the novel Evil Under the Sun, Captain Roger Angmering lived in the 18th century. In 1782 he built a house on Smugglers' Island. This was thought to be an eccentric move as people from good families such as Captain Angmering usually built mansions in the countryside. However Captain Angmering had only one great love, the sea. "The sea was his first and last spouse". He never married and when he died, the house passed on to a distant cousin. In 1922 his decendant Arthur Angmering sold the neglected house and it was converted into the Jolly Roger Hotel.