This obituary doesn't hold back! Damn.
Lord Michael Pratt, who has died aged 61, will be remembered as one of the last Wodehouseian figures to inhabit London's clubland and as a much travelled author who pined for the days of Empire; he will also be remembered as an unabashed snob and social interloper on a grand scale.
Pratt would arrive at country houses announcing that he was en route to another castle or (even larger) stately home, and was intending to stay for only one night. Quite often the "night" would turn into weeks, and sometimes months.
Although he was generous with his conversation, gossip and anecdote, many hostesses tired of Pratt's failure to make anything but the smallest contribution to the house or staff.
Michael John Henry Pratt was born on August 15 1946, the youngest son of the 5th Marquess Camden.
He was sent to Eton, having already acquired the rotund shape that would stay with him for the rest of his life.