flee the advancing Germans at the commencement of World War II. It is thought that Haxton's flamboyant nature, said to be portrayed in the character Rowley Flint in Up at the Villa, was the key to Maugham's invitational success with the members of society wherever the pair traveled. Later years and death Haxton continued as Maugham's constant companion for 30 years, until he died in a private room in the Doctors Hospital, New York. Maugham later placed the following dedication in his 1949 compilation, A Writer's Notebook: "In Loving Memory of My Friend Frederick Gerald Haxton, 1892–1944". References 1892 births 1944 deaths LGBT people from California People from San Francisco World War I civilian detainees held by Germany 20th-century LGBT people