Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations viii
4. Author’s Note x
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. Queensberry Family Trees xv
7. Introduction: The Card xvii
8. CHAPTER 1. Son and Heir 1
9. CHAPTER 2. The Queensberry Inheritance 16
10. CHAPTER 3. The Young Gentleman 27
11. CHAPTER 4. Night on a Mountain 42
12. CHAPTER 5. ‘He Thought He Loved’ 52
13. CHAPTER 6. The Game and Sporting Lord 67
14. CHAPTER 7. Original Notions 81
15. CHAPTER 8. Judged by his Peers 95
16. CHAPTER 9. An Undercurrent of Eccentricity 107
17. CHAPTER 10. Full of Woes 121
18. CHAPTER 11. Four Sons and a Daughter 137
19. CHAPTER 12. The Antipathy of Similars 149
20. CHAPTER 13. A Serious Slight 161
21. CHAPTER 14. Wounded Feelings 174
22. CHAPTER 15. Catastrophe 189
23. CHAPTER 16. A Family Divided 203
24. CHAPTER 17. The Peer and the Poet 214
25. CHAPTER 18. In the Dock 227
26. CHAPTER 19. The Price of Victory 239
27. CHAPTER 20. ‘Where Stars shall ever shed their Light’ 255
28. Epilogue 274
29. Notes 279
30. Bibliography 292
31. Index 304