Lord Cockburn'a hatred of draughts was shared by Lord Blessington—chiefly remembered as the husband of the "gorgeous Lady Blessiugton"—who, having expenencocl a wayward air ourrent playing about his oars m the House of Lords one day, resolutely refused to enter the Gilded Chamber again as long as he lived. So sensitive was he to the least movement in. the air that, according to Count d'Orsay, he "could detect the air cuTrent caused by a. key being left prosswa-ys in a lock!" In this dread of catching' oold the noble lord even refused to trust himself in the hands of a barber, and out hat own h&ir Skvxk to Ilia disgust of. Lady Bloniagtoa.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 132, 5 June 1923, Page 2
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