Editing Screaming Lord Sutch (section)

== Personal life ==
Sutch was friends with [[Cynthia Payne]],<ref name="thefreelibrary" /> and at one time lived at her house. 

Sutch had a history of depression, and killed himself by [[hanging]] on 16 June 1999 at his late mother's house.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/1999/sep/01/uk.politicalnews|title=Madcap maverick of politics hid his life of despair|last=Millar|first=Stuart|date=1999-09-01|archive-date=18 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240418032519/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/1999/sep/01/uk.politicalnews|url-status=live|work=The Guardian|access-date=2020-02-04|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> At the [[inquest]], his fiancée Yvonne Elwood said he had manic depression, now known as [[bipolar disorder]].<ref name="thefreelibrary">{{cite web|url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Lord+Sutch+fought+long+battle+with+depression.-a060467108 |date=1 September 1999 |first=Tim |last=Moynihan |work=[[Birmingham Post]] |archive-date=18 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240418083548/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Lord+Sutch+fought+long+battle+with+depression.-a060467108 |url-status=live |title=Lord Sutch fought long battle with depression|via=[[The Free Dictionary|The Free Library]] |quote='He suffered from manic depression for many years,' she said. |access-date=19 June 2013}}</ref> He is buried beside his mother, who died shortly before the [[1997 United Kingdom general election|1997 General Election]]. He is survived by a son, Tristan Lord Gwynne Sutch, born in 1975 to American model Thann Rendessy.<ref>{{cite news |at=Obituary |quote=Sutch is survived by his partner Yvonne Elwood, and his son Tristan, from his relationship with Thann Quantrill. The death of his mother, in 1997 on the eve of the last general election, greatly affected him.|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/jun/19/guardianobituaries.nigelfountain |date=19 June 1999 |title=Screaming Lord Sutch |access-date=18 April 2024 |archive-date=18 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240418084402/https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/jun/19/guardianobituaries.nigelfountain |first=Nigel |last=Fountain |work=[[The Guardian]] |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1991 his [[autobiography]], ''Life as Sutch: The Official Autobiography of a Raving Loony'' (written with [[Peter Chippindale]]), was published. In 2005 Graham Sharpe, who had known him since the late 1960s, wrote the first [[biography]], ''The Man Who Was Screaming Lord Sutch''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/jul/02/highereducation.biography |date=2 July 2005 |work=The Guardian |at=Review |title=Desperately Funny |first=Simon |last=Callow |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240418085921/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/jul/02/highereducation.biography |archive-date=18 April 2024 |access-date=18 April 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>