As a child, he had huge weight problems.

Due to his many love-affairs, by the age of 21, he had raging cases of gonorrhoea and syphilis.

As dog-pets were forbidden in Cambridge, he bought a tame bear instead. He’d walk the bear around the grounds on a chain like a dog and got great pleasure from the terrified reactions.

This character had a fascination for the supernatural, so a coffin stood at one end of the dining room. Also, skulls of the monks who had been at buried at the abbey and his own ancestors' from the family crypt were used as flowerpots that lined the walls.

He died of disease in the Greek War of Independence.

And, last but not least, he was a wonderful poet!