Word: egremont
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Melbourne entered the world "free from the tiresome inhibitions that are induced by a sense of inferiority." He had no need to feel inferior; he was rumored not to be the son of the first Lord Melbourne-a dull fellow-but of his mother's favorite lover, Lord Egremont. The dashing Egremont, the story went, had had to pay ?13,000 when he "bought" her from another lover, Lord Coleraine (lover and mistress, it was said, shared the proceeds...