Frederick Ellis, 7th Baron Howard de Walden

As a young man, Frederick assisted his father in overseeing the family's holdings of Jamaican sugar plantations.

Having in some measure restored the Jamaican estates, now used for pasture and livestock instead of sugar, she gave them to her youngest son and Frederick's brother, Evelyn Henry in 1891.

Frederick accused Blanche of "undue intimacy" with Count Jenan de Madre of Paris and Captain Winter.

According to press reports of the trial, "he frequently returned home drunk and vomited in bed, and developed filthy and hoggish habits, preventing Lady Blanche from sleeping with him.

"[6] Frederick's mother died on 29 July 1899, and he inherited the Marylebone and Ayrshire estates, making him for a little more than three months "the wealthiest peer in England".