Cornwell studied his ground and convinced others that a major find lay beneath his land.

[2] Cornwell bought the Sunday Times in 1887 from Colonel George FitzGeorge, an illegitimate member of the Royal Family.

[3] Her purpose was to promote her new company and the newspaper was in effect a gift to her lover Phil Robinson.

[1] In 1888 her friend Fergus Hume wrote a novel, "Madame Midas" about a "Mrs Villiers" which was obviously based on Cornwell.

[1] Robinson was judicially separated from his wife Sarah, rather than divorced, and never legally married Cornwell.