He was now the oft-invited guest of people with whom he did not particularly care to associate. Moore chronicles his name as one of the guests with Lord Petersham, Lord Nugent, the Hon. William Spencer, Colonel Berkeley, and Moore, at an "odd dinner," given by Horace Twiss, in Chancery Lane, in 1819, in "a borrowed room, with champagne, pewter spoons, and old Lady Cork." Lord Byron was reluctant to believe in him, but after seeing him in Richard, he presented the actor with a sword, and a box adorned by a richly-chased boar-hunt; when Lord Byron had seen his Sir Giles, he sent to the player a valuable Damascus blade. His compliments, at Kean's benefit, took the shape of a fifty-pound note; and he once invited him to dinner, which Kean left early, that he might take the chair at some pugilistic supper! [Illustration: Mr. Weston as Dr. Last.] FOOTNOTES: [101] Henry Carey hanged himself. I am not aware that his son committed suicide. [102] "I was born in the year 1787, and if anybody asks you who was my mother, say Miss Tidswell, the actress; my father was the late Duke of Norfolk, whom they called _Jockey_. I am not the son of Moses Kean, the mimic, nor of his brother, as some people are pleased to assert, though I bear the same name. I had the honour of being brought up at Arundel Castle till I was seven years old, and there they sometimes, I do not know why, called me _Duncan_! After I quitted Arundel Castle, I was soon put upon the stage by my mother. The very first part in which I appeared was the Robber's Boy in the 'Iron Chest,' when it was originally brought out at Drury Lane in 1796.... I was at Arundel Castle a few years ago, and, as I showed to the people who had charge of it, I knew every room, passage, winding and turning in it. In one of the large apartments hung a portrait of the old Duke of Norfolk, and the man who was with me said, 'You are very like the old Duke, sir.' And well he might. I am his son!" The above is said to have been taken down from Kean's words by a gentleman who showed it to Payne Collier. Kean named his first boy _Howard_, in support of the Norfolk legend.--_Doran MS._ [103] Miss Tidswell gives the date as 17th March 1789; but there can be little doubt that 1787 is the correct year. [104] In _Notes and Queries_, 4th series, iii. 535; Kean's real name is said to have been Carter.--_Doran MS._ [105] At Stroud, in Gloucestershire, July 17, 1808. The bride and her sister Susan, witness, wrote their names Chambres.--_Doran MS._ [106] 26th of January (second edition). [107] Dyce called him "a pot-house Richard."--_Doran MS._ [108] When Rae played Hamlet in 1806, at the Haymarket, Kean was his Rosencrantz.--_Doran MS._ [109] There is a cipher too many here. In the 2d edition the sum is given as £17,000. Barry Cornwall says, "Upwards of £20,000." [110] The adaptation was by Wroughton. [111] The name of the tragedy was "Ina."