Henry, tenth Earl Gascoyne ____________|____________________________ | | | Henry Adalbert George | | ___|______ | | | | Henry Patrick Henry Simeon ___|___ ____|____ | __|___ | | | | | | | Henry Ughtred Gascoyne Ughtred (d.) Henry Henry Ronald ______|_ | _______________|__ (80) __|___ | | | | | | | | Henry Ughtred Henry Marma- Gascoyne Patrick George Mary | (45) (53) duke (d.) (59) _|_____ (m. Israel | | | | Rank) Simeon Gascoyne Henry Edith | (16) (17) (13) (14) | Israel Rank It will thus be seen that there was by no means a lack of male heirs and that my chance was remote indeed. In fact, on going into the question, so little prospect did there seem of my ever standing near to the succession that I gave up taking an interest in the matter, at least for the time being. In looking back at the development of my character, I am not conscious of a natural wickedness staining and perverting all my actions. My career has been simply the result of an immense desire to be somebody of importance. My chief boyish trait was a love of beauty, whether in things animate or inanimate. People who have possessed that intangible something which is known as beauty—that degree of attraction made up of always varying proportions of line, colour and intelligence—have invariably done something more than merely attract me; they have filled me with a burning desire to be obviously in their outlook, to move for a time within their circumference, to feel that I had left an indelible impress on their memory, and it was my early appreciation of a capacity to do this that perhaps fostered my egotism, till it had become an article of faith with me that I must be someone. I looked upon the possession of rank or renown as a useful weapon for drawing attention to myself, of increasing the number of individuals brought under my personal influence.