"Young Lord Houghton, the Viceroy, 'does it,' as they say here, very handsomely & sumptuously (having inherited just in time his uncle, Lord Crewe's, great property) but he takes himself much too seriously as a representative of royalty...He had 4 balls in the six days I was there & a gorgeous banquet every night...He means well -- but he doesn't matter; & the sense of the lavish extravagance of the castle, with the beggary & squalor of Ireland at the very gates, was a most depressing, haunting discomfort."
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| The Viceroy, Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes |
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