Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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The single most boring person to appear in the diary.
Mackworth (yawn!) is “possibly” a son of Col. George Mackworth, who would have known Mountagu from Cromwell’s Council of State. He also served on the Treasury Commission — the father that is, not the son.
The son, you say? Oh. Well. We don’t actually know anything about him. If he even is the son of (yawn), Colonel … ah, what was his name?
— L&M Companion volume
(Was it Thackeray who once said, “Makepeace, not Mackworth”?)
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“(Was it Thackeray who once said, “Makepeace, not Mackworth”?)…”
Not sure…it sounds more like John Lennon visited by the spirit of William McGonnagall