GinoDecubber (-ish)
Agnus Dei or Who's Your Daddy?
"Lord Cornwallis objected to the union on the grounds that the Gordon blood was tainted by madness. This was not unfounded; Lord George Gordon's increasingly bizarre behavior had sparked the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots; it now manifested itself in conversion to Judaism, a floor-length gray beard, and the name Israel Abraham George Gordon. Jane [Maxwell, Duchess of Gordon] efficiently resolved this problem by confidentially informing Lord Cornwallis that "Louisa has not a drop of Gordon blood in her veins." This is perhaps fair enough, when the duke's extramarital record is taken into account; in any case it seems to have satisfied Lord Cornwallis, for the marriage went ahead."
from Robin Brooks's "The Portland Vase - The Extraordinary Odyssey of a Mysterious Roman Treasure", published in 2004 by Harper Collins Publishers (p.166)
Agnus Dei or Who's Your Daddy?
"Lord Cornwallis objected to the union on the grounds that the Gordon blood was tainted by madness. This was not unfounded; Lord George Gordon's increasingly bizarre behavior had sparked the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots; it now manifested itself in conversion to Judaism, a floor-length gray beard, and the name Israel Abraham George Gordon. Jane [Maxwell, Duchess of Gordon] efficiently resolved this problem by confidentially informing Lord Cornwallis that "Louisa has not a drop of Gordon blood in her veins." This is perhaps fair enough, when the duke's extramarital record is taken into account; in any case it seems to have satisfied Lord Cornwallis, for the marriage went ahead."
from Robin Brooks's "The Portland Vase - The Extraordinary Odyssey of a Mysterious Roman Treasure", published in 2004 by Harper Collins Publishers (p.166)