Quotables

"I've received your letter, my Dear Lady Strafford, & am sorry for your vexations; I feel for them; dogs are faithful; I wish I cou'd say as much for the human species."

-Lady Mary Coke

Minuet or Morgan?

1661 it most certainly is not, but an eighteenth century commercial it is!  It's about time that the dashing pirate from the bottle was personified.

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.