A member of the fourth
order of the British peerage, between an earl and a baron. The son or younger
brother of a count.
"'The fact is,' he said, 'reluctant though one may be to admit it, the entire British aristocracy is seamed and honeycombed with immorality. I venture to assert that, if you took a pin and jabbed it down anywhere in the pages of Debrett's Peerage, you would find it piercing the name of someone who was going about the place with a conscience as tender as a sunburned neck.'"
P. G. Wodehouse, Mulliner Nights (1933).
