This was the 2nd Marquess of Clanricarde, Hubert George de Burgh-Canning (1832-1916), a notorious miser and eccentric who never visited his Irish landholdings and treated his tenants with cruelty. Clanricarde's mother was a daughter of George Canning, the prime minister. His uncle, Lord Canning, was Viceroy of India at... read full story