Ernest Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe

In 1905, he succeeded his uncle Lord Grimthorpe as 2nd Baron according to a special remainder in the letters patent, as well as in the family baronetcy.

In a 2010 biographical study, Michael Holroyd described Beckett as 'a man of swiftly changing enthusiasms ... a dilettante, philanderer, gambler and opportunist.

He transformed it into a fortified palace with towers, battlements and a mixture of Arabic, Venetian and Gothic details, and called it Villa Cimbrone.

The garden is an eccentric mixture of formal, English rose beds, Moorish tea houses, picturesque grottoes and classical temples.

They had three children: Beckett is also believed to have been the father of Violet Trefusis (1894–1972), whose mother, Alice Keppel was a mistress of King Edward VII.

[10] Today, Violet is mainly remembered for her lengthy affair with the poet Vita Sackville-West, which the two women continued after their respective marriages.

[citation needed] Lord Grimthorpe died in April 1917, aged 60, at a sanatorium in Banchory, Aberdeenshire.