Though he had nosons to take over his businesses, his four daughters Anna, Bessie, Cissy and Doreen - named in alphabetical order the "better to remember them by, " he said - all married well.
"Downton Abbey" centers on a British aristocrat, Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham, who has three daughters but nosons to whom he can leave his estate, as required under British property rules at the time.