Note 9 — Chapter II · “THE MARQUIS OF STEYNE”

A footnote on p. 229, vol. iv. of G. E. C.’s Complete Peerage says: “[The fourth Marquis] is said never to have been in England. He left his Irish estates (worth £50,000 a year) and most of his personalty (which included the well-known Hertford collection of pictures) to Sir Richard Wallace, Bart. (so cr. 1866), who is supposed to have been an illegit. son, either of himself (when aged 18), or of his father, or even (not improbably) of his mother; which Richard (b. in London, 26th July 1818) d. s.p. at Paris, 20th July 1890, in his 72nd year, and was bur. in the family vault at Père-la-Chaise. Sir Richard’s ‘art treasures’ (derived as above stated) were valued at his death in 1890 at above two millions.”