Hunk Akert: Luke Gardiner, 1st Viscount Mountjoy

SWM, Politician
Likes: Travel, marriage, Catholics, mythology, and history

Having received the most enlightened of educations on my recent Grand Tour, you will find me to be quite a sensible man of feeling.  Being Irish, I (unlike that stupid stupid Burke) think that we've been a little harsh on Catholics lately.  Sexy Catholics shouldn't be prevented from marrying Sexy Protestants, I mean, c'mon; that's just silly.  But I digress.  Any interested lady will find me to be most devoted to King, country....and you.

I'd love to meet a pretty, virginal maiden with equally pretty sisters.  Gardening skills a major plus.

On Lady Sarah Bunbury

 "Lady Sarah never did sacrifice to the Graces. Her beauty was in her face, which had few equals; but she was a cricket player, and ate beefsteaks..."

-Hester Thrale

On the Duchess of Rutland

"The life she leads is enough to kill her..."

-Lady Clermont to Lady Spencer, 1784

Barefoot Duchessa

Georgiana is known mostly for the circus that was the Westminster Election of 1784 despite the fact that she was an experienced campaigner.  She, her mother and her sister were known to canvass in the Spencer-claimed, St Albans.  A lovely anecdote from one of the St Albans campaigns shows both how at ease Georgiana was with all classes and also why she appealed to so many.  While visiting a butcher (how ironic) to appeal for his vote she stepped out of her carriage and tore her shoe so much that it wouldn't stay on, to which she kicked it off and with a smile said, "I gladly serve my friends, even bare-footed."

Smooth as the silk (on her torn shoe), that duchess!