“A complicated gentleman allow me to present,
Of all the arts and faculties the terse embodiment,
He’s a great arithmetician who can demonstrate with ease
That two and two are three or five or anything you please“

W S Gilbert, Utopia Limited, 1893

… and readers may not be surprised to learn that the subject of the above description,  Sir Bayley Barre, was a QC and MP. On which note…

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