Lord Dundreary
Lord Dundreary is a silly, but lovable, aristocrat who was first introduced in the 1858 play Our American Cousin. He is known for his exaggeratedly bushy sideburns, which were called Dundrearies, and for his malapropisms, which are humorous misuses of words. Dundrearyisms were all the rage in Victorian England, and even Charles Kingsley wrote an essay in the style of the bumbling lord.