The health benefits of Earl Grey

Earl Grey was a close friend of Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester. Coke is remembered primarily as an agricultural reformer rather than a politician, however historians have questioned the idea that he can be credited with sparking the British Agricultural Revolution through the reforms he made to farming on his estates. He remained in robust health after his retirement, and in 1822 at the age of 68 (after 21 years as a widower) he married his 18-year-old god-daughter, and in his eighties had a fifth child. He took no pleasure in attending the House of Lords, however, describing it as "the hospital for incurables".