The Expedition Principals

The principal members of the Carlyle Expedition were as follows:

Roger Vane Worthington Carlyle

Leader of the expedition, A millionaire playboy who in the course of three years "resigned" from a succession of notable universities. Became obsessed with a mysterious African woman, and experienced a number of strange dreams, over which he consulted Dr. Robert Huston. Owned a number of Mythos-related books including Life As A God by Montgomery Crompton, all of which are still at the Carlyle Estate.

Dr. Robert Ellington Huston

Graduated with honours from John's Hopkins, but after three years threw over his circulatory ailments practice (and his wife) and went to Vienna to study under Freud and then Jung. Huston was among the first Americans to undertake this controversial study of the mind, which dealt so much with sexual behaviour that no respectable person could talk about it! Returning to New York City, he established a practice in psychoanalysis catering to the very wealthy.

Huston enjoyed fame and notoriety. His fees were whispered to be $50-$60 dollars a visit. Women found him suave, handsome, sensitive, perceptive and sexy. Many of the trendy New York set were his patients, including Erica and Roger Carlyle, and Doris and Sylvia Thompson.

Since Huston has been declared dead, his medical records are held by the New York Medical Affairs Board.

Sir Aubrey Penhew

Graduated with honours in classics from Oxford, then spent several years in Egypt surveying and performing exploratory excavations up-river.

Limited service as a lieutenant in the Yorkshire Guards, 1901-1902, breveted as a Colonel in British Army Intelligence 1915-1916, retiring because of injury. Sir Aubrey is credited with founding several important branches of Egyptology, and for several important discoveries, notably at Dhashur.

Nearly as important, the Penhew Foundation, set up by Sir Aubrey, has underwritten many important researches at home and abroad, and educated many brilliant but penniless scholars.

Sir Aubrey was incontestably wealthy, and had title to several stately homes and mansions in London, The Cotswolds, Monaco and Alexandria, and townhouses in Paris, Rome, and Athens. Sir Aubrey was a bachelor, without family or heirs other than the Penhew Foundation.

Miss Hypatia Celestine Masters

Heiress to the Masters armaments fortune, Hypatia attended Swiss and French academies and showed an aptitude for languages. She was also an accomplished photographer, several of her shows earned good reviews and enthusiastic attendance. Went out with Roger Carlyle several times, but only as a friend. Accompanied the Expedition as photographer and archivist.

Jack Oriel "Brass" Brady

Loyal friend and bodyguard to Roger Carlyle. As a Marine Sergeant, Jack Brady served in China and later on the Western Front, earning a Bronze Star and other commendations, he's believed to have worked as a mercenary after the war, and to speak Turkish, Arabic and several Chinese dialects. Had a long police record for brawling and assaults.

Killed an opponent in a fight in the Oilfield, California, and was arrested for murder. This piqued the interest of Roger Carlyle, who had just been expelled from USC. The two formed a close alliance, amazing everyone who knew Roger, who had never formed any strong friendship before.

Roger summoned the best legal minds in the country who proceeded to blow to pieces the seemingly open-and-shut case despite the prosecution producing seven eye-witnesses. After that, the two men were virtually inseparable.

Reportedly encountered by "Nails" Nelson in Hong Kong some years after the Carlyle Expedition Massacre.