"Just as Lord Massereene was leaving the prison, he was arrested."
A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
True Tales of the Year 1805.
V.—LORD MASSEREENE'S IMPRISONMENT.
'Truth is stranger than fiction,' says a very old proverb, which is certainly illustrated by the following tale of an eccentric nobleman's life.
Lord Massereene was born in 1742, and in due course sent to Cambridge University, where, however, he learnt next to nothing except how to row on the river, and this he did to perfection.