Sir, – May I correct a small error in your otherwise excellent obituary of Lord Waterford (“Polo-loving marquis turned vast estate into going concern”, February 21st)? It is not quite true to say that “As an Irish peer he sat in the House of Lords”. Lord Waterford was indeed entitled to sit in the House of Lords, but only by virtue of his subsidiary title, Baron Tyrone, which was created in 1786, three years before his Irish marquisate. – Yours, etc,
PC THOMPSON,
Worcester,
England.
