Lord Blaise H. Cawley

Blaise H. Cawley or Lord Blaise Hayden Cawley (1848-1934), an English occultist and fugitive who was the founder of the Order of the Purple Rose and the most controversial man of the 20th century.

Biography
Lord Blaise H. Cawley was born on October 6, 1848, in London, England to a wealthy family of landowners and aristocrats.

He came to the United States in 1867 to pursue a life of hedonism and greed got himself into trouble with the law and was arrested for lewdness and adultery.

Then Lord Cawley studied at the University of Eastbury until he was expelled for his bigotry against minorities and divisive remarks about religion and the church of which he had a bitter hatred.

In 1886, he founded the O.P.R. or the Order of the Purple Rose as an anti-Catholic cult that believed that all of the teachings of Catholicism were false and misleading to society, and therefore he was a prophet.

His interest in the occult led him to include the rituals and practices within the cult and started to hold secret meetings in secluded locations.

Lord Cawley disrupted many church events by arguing with the priests and sometimes got into physical altercations with the clergy and even threatened to burn down the places of worship.

Later Life
In 1926 he started to get more attention from the public by his outspoken opinions on immigrants and disdain for the different religions that were coming into the country and he referred to them as "unnecessary vermin" and wanted to get rid of them.

However, his beliefs about intermarriage were the most controversial because he believed everyone was impure and tainted by the mixing of different religions and gone as far as to forge divorce documents to have them separated from each other.

He was arrested in 1928 for threatening the life of an immigrant and was sent to prison for a short while because he believed mixing religions was a problematic stain on society.

However, Lord Cawley was freed after a while and then lived the rest of his life blaming the immigrants for his troubles and vowed to have his revenge against them.

Death
In 1934, Lord Cawley was found dead in his own home and his cause of death remains a mystery to this day and some speculated his soul was taken by something supernatural.

The autopsy did not find anything wrong with him nor did he have health problems because of his obsessive and meticulous diet.

He was buried on his property by his followers and with a grave marker made with granite etched with different symbols and a warning to those who dare to go near his grave.