Talks on Daniel Gardner's The Three Witches from Macbeth

In a bit of shameless self-promoting news I will be giving papers in both the US and UK on Daniel Gardner's amazing portrait of Georgiana, Lady Melbourne, and Anne Damer; The Three Witches from Macbeth. 

I'll be in Middleton, CT, USA on October 13 at the NEASECS conference chatting away and then on December 3-4 I will be at Cambridge University for the very exciting conference, Charming Intentions: Occultism, Magic and the History of Art.  If anyone is in the neighborhood I would love to see you there!

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