However, Mad Jack Mytton and his antics would appear to be a historical example.

Mytton would later attempt to serve in both parliament and the 7th Hussars, a cavalry regiment.

Astley House Pradoe, guardian of JFG Mytton, this engraving of his ward's late father " When the print was published John jnr would have been 24 years old and would have inherited what was left of the estate.

The BBC writes that, " in a survey done by Jill Mytton on 200 former cult members most of them reported problems adjusting to society and about a third would benefit from some counseling ".

Nimrod, Charles James Apperley, a neighbour, fellow hunting devotee, close friend and peer felt compelled to record the life of Mad Jack in ' The Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esquire, of Halston, Shropshire, formerly MP for Shrewsbury, High Sheriff for the Counties of Salop & Merioneth ( 1821 ), Major of the North Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry ; with Notices of his Hunting, Shooting & Driving '.

Baker added: `` I pray you delivre these inclosed Letters And Comend mee to Mr. Rychard Mytton whoe I know will ffreind mee for the payment of this monei ''.

Mytton is an example of one variation on the character, the drunken aristocrat ; another example, more frequently found in British humour than American, is the drunken clergyman.

A long siege ensued from June 1646 until 15 March 1647, when the garrison of 44 men surrendered to Major-General Thomas Mytton.

The Archbishop defected to Parliament, the town of Conwy fell in August 1646 and in November General Thomas Mytton finally took the castle itself after a substantial siege.

Mytton Hall is broad in treatment, and a fine rendering of a shady avenue of yew trees leading to an old manor-house in sunlight.

The character of one of her ancestors, " Mad Jack " Ramkin, was inspired from John " Mad Jack " Mytton.

John Mytton ( 30 September 1796-29 March 1834 ) was a notable British eccentric and Regency rake.

John " Mad Jack " Mytton was born to a family of Shropshire squires with a lineage that stretched back some 500 years before his day.

Mytton saw both part-time and full-time military service.

Mytton was also a drinking man and could drink eight bottles of port wine a day with a helping of brandy.

Mytton was an enthusiastic dog-fighter and gambled on the outcome of fights between bulldogs, mastiffs and terriers.

Many rumours were started about Mytton many of which were unfounded.

Mytton was spendthrift and cared little about warnings that his money was running out.

" said Mytton as he stood undressed on the floor, apparently in the act of getting into bed “ but I ’ ll frighten it away ”; so seizing a lighted candle applied it to the tail of his shirt – it being a cotton one – he was instantly enveloped in flames.

Mytton left a number of children.

A print, of a portrait of John Mytton, was published by Ackerman in 1847 – 13 years after the squire's death.

There is also a well known portrait of Mytton on horseback, by William Webb, and numerous illustrations, by H. Alken and T. J. Rawlins, appear in Nimrod's " Life of John Mytton ".

No girl would go this far to fool a man so she could kill him.

Somehow more terrible than the certainty that he was about to die was the knowledge that Lord would probably not suffer for it: the murder would go unpunished.

He, McBride, would be cited as in the wrong, and he, Lord, would go scot-free, an officer who had only done his duty, though perhaps too energetically.

If someone were to drop a match in here, this place would go up like a haystack ''.

There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.

They would have to go west through the narrow river valley that separated Leyte from Samar and hope that it didn't close in before they returned.

But if Joyce got involved in murder or salacious scandal, the role would probably go to the sponsor's wife, Mrs. Oatnut Grits.

He and Penny would go out on tame elephants, raised from babyhood in the keddah.

`` There ain't nothin' faster, or lonelier, or more direct than a cannonball freight when you wanna go someplace '', Feathertop would say.

`` E '' stands for `` execution '' -- the moment a `` go order '' would unleash an American nuclear strike.

If communications work, his decision would be instantly known in all command posts that would originate the actual go order.

I asked Wisman what would happen if he broke out the go codes and tried to start transmitting one.

These proposals would go far toward creating the economic atmosphere favoring growth of the individual, who, in turn, would help us to cope with runaway technology.

After I would finish playing the songs, he'd just go away without a comment.

All the dogs would dash to get on the elevator with the President and go to the dining room.

She would often go up on the roof to see the attendant take down the flag in the evening.

`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.

Sturley on November 4 answered a letter from Quiney written on October 25 which imported, wrote Sturley, `` that our countriman Mr. Wm. Shak. would procure us monei: which I will like of as I shall heare when, wheare & howe: and I prai let not go that occasion if it mai sort to ani indifferent condicions.

They would go to New York together, where parties would be piled on weariness and on misery.