Matthew Robinson Morris, 2nd Baron Rokeby, 1712-1800. Eccentric aristocrat who loved hot baths and let his estate grow wild. Lord Bokeby, of Singular Eccentricity. Lithograph after a stipple engraving by R. Page from Henry Wilson and James Caulfield’s Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869.

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