Drunk as a Lord; the Regency Bottle Men
All the decent people in Lichfield got drunk every night and were not the worse thought of Samuel Johnson Sir Murrough O’Brien, Marquess of Thomond, was riding through Grosvenor Square one February morning in 1808 when his fell from his horse, smashed his head on the pavement, was run over by a cart and died the same day. He was not a fashionable member of the bon ton, but was important enough to have an obituary. What could be said about him? He was a six ...
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