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  • Title: 227
  • Author(s): Baron Ferdinand De RothChild
  • Date of creation: 1890
  • Extent: 2pp
  • Material: Paper
  • Physical Location: Waddesdon Manor

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Potter, son of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord Sandwich ; both of whom subsequently played important parts in his career. His life became one of the most deplorable profligacy and immorality. It resulted by mutual consent in a separation from his wife, whose earlier feelings of tenderness he had never reciprocated. In one of his letters he thus speaks of his marriage: ‘ To please an indulgent father I married a woman half as old again as myself, of a large fortune, my own being that of a gentleman. It was a sacrifice to Plutus and not to Venus. I stumbled at the very threshold of the Temple of Hymen,— “The God of Love was not a bidden guest, Nor was he present at his own mysterious feast.” Are such ties at such a time of life binding ? and are schoolboys to be dragged to the altar?’ Objectionable as were his vices, they were only in keeping with prevalent customs. Some of the greatest noblemen of the land vied with each other in depravity, and yet were promoted to the highest posts and honours, both at Court and in the councils of the kingdom. Lord Sandwich had been expelled from the Beefsteak Club for blasphemy ; nevertheless he became Post- master-General, First Lord of the Admiralty, and Secretary of State in several administrations, and
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