John Tufton

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    Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman ... never gave offence to anyone, not even the enemy.
    —A.J.P. (Alan John Percivale)

    When Lady Mary Tufton married Dr. Duncan, an elderly physician, Mr. George Selwyn said, “How often will she say with Macbeth ‘Wake, Duncan, with thy knocking—would thou couldst!’”
    Horace Walpole (1717–1797)