Talk:Henry Beresford, 3rd Marquess of Waterford

Untitled
Broken footnoting on this page. Charles Matthews 09:53, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Painting the town red
According to The Phrase Finder, there's good reason to doubt that "painting the town red" originated from Beresford's spree. While there's no solid counter-evidence either, we probably shouldn't take the legend as fact. Bradd 23:09, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Not a proper biography
This article seems almost entirely concerned with this Spring Heeled Jack rubbish and the final para - "In 1842, ... settled in Curraghmore House in Ireland, and reportedly led an exemplary life, until he died in a horse riding accident in 1859. Spring Heeled Jack remained notionally active for decades after, which leads the aforementioned modern researchers to the same conclusion as Brewer's: Waterford may well have been responsible for the first attacks, while it was up to other pranksters who occasionally imitated him to continue the task." - really takes the biscuit. Jooler 10:50, 23 September 2007 (UTC)