"Professor C. Brad Faught, Chair of the Department of History at Tyndale University College, surveys the issue of Kitchener's sexuality in a 2016 biography.While acknowledging Kitchener's "vestigal femininity" in collecting porcelain and organising dinner parties, plus emotional repression typical of his class and time; Faught concludes that the absolute absence of evidence either way leaves "an issue about which historians can say almost nothing useful".